Next Federal Election Matchup: It's Trudeau Versus Trump

Perhaps you are among those Canadians who believe that the next federal election will be between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. If so, you need to re-appraise your thinking.  

Judging by the Liberals battle plan, the next showdown will be between Trudeau and Donald Trump/ Elon Musk. According to the federal Liberals and their water carriers in the Canadian media the biggest threat is not proxy Poilievre but the combined forces of populist America taking over Canada’s sacred democracy. (Mirroring the effort by the American Left to paint its likely competition in 2024 as subversive, tyrannical and despotic.)

On favoured talking points from guns to abortion to healthcare the enemy is not the CPC but the creep of evil POTUS 44 and the man who converted Twitter to X. Poilievre policy is “straight out of the Republican playbook”, says longtime Liberal Scott Reid. “A second Trump presidency almost certainly creates a situation where the next election won’t be about Pierre Poilievre or Justin Trudeau — it will be about Donald Trump and Canada’s relationship with an America that is led by an angry, vengeful creature,”

You mean angry like this?

“I think it is the kind of event that has the force to reset the next election in Canada,” Reid insists. Faced with polls showing he has a one percent chance of holding onto power, PMJT found time to bloviate against Trump and the Jan. 6 riot. “As shocking, deeply disturbing, and frankly saddening, as that event remains, we have also seen this week that democracy is resilient in America, our closest ally and neighbour. Violence has no place in our societies, and extremists will not succeed in overruling the will of the people.”

This from the caudillo who sent in Mounties on horseback to trample the peaceful, unarmed Truckers Convoy before jailing its leaders without habeas corpus. Who gave a standing O to a former Nazi in the Commons. Who uses the RCMP to cover his own (allegedly) criminal behaviour. Who runs a Green Energy slush fund for friends? No matter. 

The latest fainting-goat episode of Trump assimilation is the visit by controversial broadcaster Tucker Carlson to Alberta. The highest-rated talk show host in the Excited States till his firing in April by FOX News, Carlson is scheduled to appear along with premier Danielle Smith in Calgary while sharing the dais in Edmonton with columnist Rex Murphy and Conrad Black. 

Andrew Coyne, who leads pity parades for inept journalists getting their knuckles rapped by Polievere, finds the appearance of an independent voice unspeakable. “This is just sad. Appalling, but also sad” he tweeted on behalf of the 416/ 613 press corps. “Will we see Poilievre join Danielle Smith, Conrad Black and Rex Murphy on a stage next month with arch-Putinite Tucker Carlson? Is that where things are headed?”

Like when Hillary Clinton was paid six figures to speak to the Liberal convention? Or when Barack Obama twice interfered with a Canadian election by plumping for Skippy. But Coyne and his press buddies know better than his fellow citizens who sold out the Alberta events in minutes.

Now, Imagine any of Canada’s guardians of truth being willing to take on Big Pharma’s role in silencing media criticism of Covid vaccines, the likely reason for Carlson’s firing. According to RFK Jr. “Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content, and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless… (by firing Carlson) Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.”

To Canada’s media pack, however, Carlson is toxic for challenging the status quo by interviewing RFK Jr., Glenn Greenwald, Alex Berenson, Jason Whitlock and Rudy Giuliani. Remember, protecting a black university president from plagiarism and antisemitism charges is progress. Questioning how news lineups kow-tow to the pharmaceutical industry is conspiracy.

After his April firing we observed the obsessive distaste for Carlson amongst Canada’s scribblers and wind therapists. “As opposed to CNN, MSNBC and the DC print media doing FBI/ CIA spin, Carlson was correct on the major hoaxes of the past seven years from Russiagate to Hunter Biden laptop to Ukraine impeachment to FBI’s targeting of parents school groups to Jussie Smollett. 

As an example, he asked, how did the Muller Investigation spend two years with a team of 19 lawyers, $40 million in resources, 40 FBI agents, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants & 500 witnesses— and not find out that Hillary Clinton created the hoax they were investigating?” (Answer: They never interviewed Clinton’s campaign manger.) But the broader audience was largely unprepared for these truths until much later in the news cycle..”

Speaking of conspiracy, a day does not go by without some sensitive scribe telling his pals— more in sorrow than anger— that he’s quitting X (formerly Twitter) because Elon Musk has made his new acquisition “toxic”. Usually this means they are being assailed again by the voices they’d kicked off Twitter at the behest of the FBI or DOJ. Quitting Musk is a tainted badge of honour for these tender souls.

What Musk (he got his Canadian citizenship in 1989 and his mother, Maye Musk, was born in Regina) has done, however imperfectly, is return X to its seminal task of hearing stories that interfere with the Pharma-approved news agenda. Allowing independent journalists such as Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi to examine files hidden by the previous owners. They uncovered funds and directives from government sources ordering the banning of inconvenient voices. Which were followed.

Now Musk is a target for Biden who says that Elon Musk “is worth being looked at.” When asked "How?", President Biden responded “There’s a lot of ways.” Naturally this has led to Musk being labelled an “antisemite” so the major corporations who bought in on Covid, RussiaGate and more can squeeze there Tesla founder by withdrawing advertising.  If none of this sounds like a “conspiracy” the problem probably lies with who brings you the news rather than the news itself. 

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Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.