MSNBC Worship: Justin's Playing What They're Saying

"I'm still mad at myself for that, for being convinced at one point in time that the Prime Minister was an honest and good person when in truth he would so casually lie to the public and then think he could get away with it." —Jody Wilson-Reybould

The sum of what Justin Trudeau knows about guns is that they make a frightful noise. But like all Woke folk, the former drama school teacher also knows these “weapons of war” make even bigger noise when used to rally the troops against evil right-wing elements like Pierre Poilievre. 

So when the unspeakable tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, occurred Captain Blackface was presented with an enticing opportunity on how to deflect from ridiculous gas prices, soaring inflation, his inane border closures and non-vaccinated bans. Play the gun card. By aiming it at the CPC base.

Sure, Uvalde was a strictly American tragedy. But why not appropriate the murder of 19 U.S. school children to lay some smack upon those saps in the Canadian boonies? Show them how a tyrant really works. “Hey, we’ll get Jagmeet to rubber stamp a gun ban the way her did the national emergency.”

"It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” Trudeau announced as his cabinet head-bobbed. Thus, Canada declared war on the owners of the 1,831,327 valid firearm licences holders in Canada. New legislation would ban the ownership of "military-style assault weapons" in a mandatory buyback program, and impose restrictions banning the sale, purchase, importation or transfer of handguns. The legislation would also limit magazine capacities and ban toys – such as airsoft guns – that look like guns.

This despite the fact that Trudeau knows the four or five groups in Canada  who control the illegal gun market. Targeting them would remove virtually all the problematic gun incidents in the country. But harassing the gang bangers of Toronto, the Hell’s Angels, the indigenous drug mafia and the Asian gangs of the Lower Mainland of B.C. would touch upon too many Liberal clients. Easier to blame the legal owners who abide by whatever laws the Ottawa geek squad conjures up to disqualify Conservatives. 

(U.S. legal scholar Jonathan Turley noted the repercussions of Trudeau’s actions: “Biden saying there’s ‘no rational basis’ to own 9mms and AR-15s sounds like he’s channeling his inner Canadian.” Ouch.)

Lest you think the appropriation game is a one-off, think again. While Canadian voters believe  Ottawa politicians take their cues from the public, the reality of the Le Dauphin years is that Canadian policy direction is often conjured up in the fever swamps of MSNBC, CNN or the New York Times, the bibles of CDN Leftist cult thinking. He’s playing what they’re saying.

Example: When the American Left annointed the January 6, 2011 Capitol riot into “the worst assault oi American democracy since the Civil War”, Skippy merely said, “Hold my de-alcoholized beer”. Calling the noisy Ottawa demonstration of truckers protesting the government’s anti-vaxx policies a provocation, Trudeau jailed organizers, suspended civil liberties, seized the truckers’ bank records and credit ratings and described the honking truck horns a “national security emergency”. 

With trusty scribes like Andrew Coyne wailing that the Bouncy Castle people had “paralyzed Ottawa” with terroristic actions, Trudeau convened the House of Commons, gelded the NDP and won international censure for his over-the top seizure of the government. Xi Jingping loved it.

Did he care? After winning another term and reaching a non-aggression pact with the NDP, it was full speed ahead on the front benches of the Libs. Best of all for Trudeau, who covets acceptance in the global One World community, his closing down Canada’s democracy hasn’t gone unnoticed. U.S. congressman Thomas Massie (GOP) observed, “The dystopian future Trudeau is manifesting in Canada is coming to America if US citizens don’t get involved.”

But there were more borrowed U.S. story lines to roil the nation. For example, Mr. Dressup noted the affect the 2020 George Floyd riots had in whipping up racial tension and all-around leftist loathing of America. The  dying words of the career criminal,  “I can’t breathe”, became a rallying cry for BLM and the militant left. 

The inadvertent death of the career petty criminal beneath the knee of a Waukegan, WI, cop prompted cities burned, stores looted and the innocent killed in the mayhem. The issue also rallied the far-left base of the Democratic Party, allowing Joe Biden to win the presidency.

None of the racial animus was lost on Trudeau’s ”never let a crisis go to waste” crowd. When indigenous leaders in B.C. purportedly found “mass graves” near former residential school properties, the king of the photo op knew what to do.

The local chief Irene Andreas insisted that the tribe knew everyone buried in the Cowessess First Nation cemetery,. "All your elders have knowledge of every grave… So please, people, do not make up stories about residential school children being put in unmarked graves. No such thing ever happened.”

Nonplussed, Team Trudeau staged a revoting photo of him kneeling in the graveyard clutching a stuffed teddy bear beneath his arm. While paid media magpies saluted his “humanity” the action whitewashed a campaign of burning, statue toppling, angry newspaper misinformation and more across the country. His divisive stunt made its mark with the people he craves and drove a stake into reconciliation attempts with the indigenous peoples.

And let’s not forget the Ukraine Express. When the American left-wing media created the Zelensky cult of personality, Skippy ditched his green memes, fired up the government jet and flew to Ukraine with his most loyal cabinet flunkies for some photo ops. All he missed was a selfie with another fatuous hack, VP Selena Gomez… er, Kamala Harris. 

Then there was Trudeau getting his Covid marching orders from the titans of DC journalism who daily grilled Donald Trump— and then adopted his vaccines under Biden. Or the misinformation boards urged by the American Media Party to silence critics of the Biden regime. Now outstripped by Trudeau’s multiple Bills C26, C38 etc. 

Now, Teddy Bear Trudeau has his eyes on a Vaccine Task Force. Ah, the Venezuela-nizig of Canada continues. Music to this PM’s ears. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx