Once More into the Serious Breach

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Once More Into the Very Serious Breach

... just doing my job, insists Trudeau.

NationalNewsWatch: Trudeau Breached Conflict of Interest Act says Ethics Commissioner

• "My job as a prime minister is to stand up for Canadians and to defend their interests," [Trudeau] told a news conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont

How cool is that?  Trudeau turns his own highly questionable action into something that Canadians wanted instead of what SNC Lavalin wanted.

• "Taking responsibility means recognizing that what we did over the past year wasn't good enough, but at the same time I can't apologize for standing up for Canadian jobs because that's part of what Canadians expect me to do."

Unrepentant and saintly to the core.

Well, what could he say?  Mea culpa?  Hardly.  He want to be re-elected; in fact he's pretty sure he will be, despite that he has little else to fall back on but his habitual worn-out mantra: "standing up for Canadians". Nobody, including himself, knows what it really means, since he doesn't indicate to which distinct group of Canadians he refers. He can't possibly stand up for one without raising the ire of another.

At the height of the Lavalin scandal, Wilson-Raybould spoke of ethics while Trudeau and Butts talked ad nauseam about jobs, jobs, jobs, because they wanted to be seen as "standing up for Canadians".

This despite the fact that it was stated over and over again from various sources that those jobs would still exist, though they might not be via SNC Lavalin.

"Standing up for Canadians" goes along with Trudeau's other mantra: "grow the economy".

Rather than repeat myself regarding the PM's standard flimflam tactics, can I please encourage you to read (re-read) my post of March 24/19: He's such a nice boy, that Justin ... in which he talked down to his audience:

• He actually did say that he would explain the whole thing "at the simplest possible level".

He's at his best (worst?) when talking to "ordinary" Canadians who really, really want to believe what he's saying because they are afraid of the alternative, and to whom he can repeat the same trigger phrases over and over, much like an attempt at mind control.

Seriously. Trudeau deliberately sets out to bamboozle the voters -- just as Gerald Butts tried to mind-bend the Justice Committee.  From my post of March 12/19: Of mice and doofusses ...

• During Butts' testimony before the Justice Committee I actually lost count of the number of times he slipped in the words "9000 lost jobs", but it was around 15 times.  He was doing the same thing to the Committee that he denies was done to Wilson-Raybould.
• Only one questioner asked, "Do we know for a fact that jobs would be lost?", but somehow the question never got answered.
• That's the smoking gun, as far I'm concerned ...

Still ... there's the strange phenomenon that often when there's a Conservative premier in Ontario, there's a Liberal PM in Ottawa. Ontario voters seem to need the comfort of balance.

You can make your own assessment of that by reviewing the following:

• Wikipedia: List of Premiers of Ontario
• The Canada Guide: Prime Ministers

However, it's already been noted by pollsters that Scheer's biggest hurdle is Ontario:

Maclean's: The Tories' nagging problem

• Liberals hold a crushing 12-point lead in Ontario ... which would, hypothetically, make it virtually impossible for the Conservatives to win the most seats in Canada. 

It's simple: Ontarians rule Canada simply because their province houses two seats of government, provincial and federal, and has the largest population, with Quebec coming second. It's even been seriously postulated that Ontario should become a country in itself. I can imagine that our aggressive Foreign Minister would welcome increased status on the world stage.

And Ontario could incorporate like Washington, DC, City of London, and Vatican City:

Sinhalanet: Three Corporations Rule the World

• At the center of each city state are giant phallic shaped stone monuments called obelisks.

Hey, we've already got one of those.  Altogether now: My Corporation 'tis of thee ...

Or maybe Toronto alone could be our Washington DC?

• In Quebecois-fashion, Keesmaat is proposing that Toronto break off from the rest of Ontario, which would consequently make it the fifth largest province or territory in the country.

It does have the requisite phallic tower.

Years ago, a down-East politician told me that "Canada would not last the century". Currently, Wikipedia seems to provide the most info about Canada's secession movements.
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