Vincent J. Curtis
7 Mar 2019
Self-respecting people do not watch laws or sausages being made, said German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Justin Trudeau promised that his sausage making would be downright pretty and wholesome.
In the 2015 election, Trudeau promised to stimulate the economy by a three-year series of deficits followed by a return to balance in 2019 – without doing the math.
He promised to change parliamentary representation – without realizing he’d need a constitutional convention to do so.
He promised reconciliation with aboriginal First Nations – without understanding the nature of aboriginal society.
He promised feminism and progressivism to prevail – and produced a cabinet of perfect gender equality and great racial mixture regardless of merit.
No one seemed to detect a pragmatic political operator behind the mask of sunny-ways progressivism. Until the contradictions in his promises became evident in the form of Jody Wilson-Raybould, and then in her BFF Jane Philpott.
It was perfectly reasonable of the PM to have ordered his Attorney-General to take the Deferred Prosecution Agreement approach to settling the SNC-Lavalin affair. But such a masculine directness was antithetical to feminist-progressivism, and so he resorted to the indirect methods of feminism. He sent messengers to urge the merits of the preferred solution – so many in fact that the dim or unyielding A-G felt pressured “inappropriately” (a feminist code-word.)
Trudeau’s response was like Clinton’s discrediting of Monica, all very progressive in style.
Trudeau’s fall from grace comes not from his handling of SNC-Lavalin, but from the shock of seeing that feminist sausage-making is still ugly.
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