So, I guess it's pretty much over. It's hard to sustain outrage without coming off as unhinged.
Much as the Conservatives were right to be outraged during AdScam, their reactions to the scandal hurt their leader and their brand, causing the then, unknown entity of Stephen Harper, to be labeled 'angry' -- a perception that stuck amongst a lot of average Canadians.
They're facing the same dilemma here. Some of their strongest and most talented voices are going to be painted in a negative light. Doesn't matter if they are justified. It only matters how it's framed.
Again, I believe Jody Wilson-Raybould, but her silence right now is a little eerie. She's letting the opposition parties do the dirty work of stirring things up on her behalf. Maybe she feels there's little else she can do, but after the show by the Liberals at the Justice Committee, wouldn't she feel even more indignant about their response, and have some sort of response herself? I don't believe she's just saving it all up. I don't know what to think anymore... but whatever momentum there was to find the truth, it's waning.
Justin Trudeau now says he's looking forward to working with both Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott in the future, so it would appear that bygones are bygones as far as he's concerned -- and the messaging Wilson-Raybould sent out to her constituents? I guess that just means she's satisfied for injustice to be done.
Between the breezy way the Liberals have effectively shrugged away this scandal, and the idea of the upcoming election being based more on identity politics, I think a lot of us are bracing ourselves for the prediction made last year by Justin Trudeau, that this campaign will be the nastiest in history.
I'm not looking forward to it.
The 'us' against 'them' rhetoric has already started, aided in part by the timing of Friday's terrorist attack on the mosque in New Zealand.
What better way to respond to a tragedy than to exploit it.
And then there's that sly way the Liberals have of just dodging anything unpleasant. The Mike Duffy scandal lasted forever -- and it was a true 'nothingburger'. It was a drop in the bucket compared to what governments of all stripes waste, daily -- and the scandal was that someone felt obligated to give it back??????
All of this is why people tune out of politics. You give up half your paycheque to pay for it all, and for what? For a budget that makes promises it won't keep, or if it does keep them, will bankrupt us and where a good half of us are too young, too old or too something to benefit from any of the largess if it ever found its way to where it's supposed to go anyway.
Maybe this is what they all want. Exasperate us to the point where we just turn off the tv, close twitter, and walk away.
canadianna
Much as the Conservatives were right to be outraged during AdScam, their reactions to the scandal hurt their leader and their brand, causing the then, unknown entity of Stephen Harper, to be labeled 'angry' -- a perception that stuck amongst a lot of average Canadians.
They're facing the same dilemma here. Some of their strongest and most talented voices are going to be painted in a negative light. Doesn't matter if they are justified. It only matters how it's framed.
Again, I believe Jody Wilson-Raybould, but her silence right now is a little eerie. She's letting the opposition parties do the dirty work of stirring things up on her behalf. Maybe she feels there's little else she can do, but after the show by the Liberals at the Justice Committee, wouldn't she feel even more indignant about their response, and have some sort of response herself? I don't believe she's just saving it all up. I don't know what to think anymore... but whatever momentum there was to find the truth, it's waning.
Justin Trudeau now says he's looking forward to working with both Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott in the future, so it would appear that bygones are bygones as far as he's concerned -- and the messaging Wilson-Raybould sent out to her constituents? I guess that just means she's satisfied for injustice to be done.
Between the breezy way the Liberals have effectively shrugged away this scandal, and the idea of the upcoming election being based more on identity politics, I think a lot of us are bracing ourselves for the prediction made last year by Justin Trudeau, that this campaign will be the nastiest in history.
I'm not looking forward to it.
The 'us' against 'them' rhetoric has already started, aided in part by the timing of Friday's terrorist attack on the mosque in New Zealand.
What better way to respond to a tragedy than to exploit it.
And then there's that sly way the Liberals have of just dodging anything unpleasant. The Mike Duffy scandal lasted forever -- and it was a true 'nothingburger'. It was a drop in the bucket compared to what governments of all stripes waste, daily -- and the scandal was that someone felt obligated to give it back??????
All of this is why people tune out of politics. You give up half your paycheque to pay for it all, and for what? For a budget that makes promises it won't keep, or if it does keep them, will bankrupt us and where a good half of us are too young, too old or too something to benefit from any of the largess if it ever found its way to where it's supposed to go anyway.
Maybe this is what they all want. Exasperate us to the point where we just turn off the tv, close twitter, and walk away.
canadianna
3 comments:
Excellent conclusion. Yes,the Club Du Ottawa wouldn't mind if we paid so little attention that they could vote themselves raises every six months with impunity.
A sleeping voter is safe voter.
I am changing my mind on Proportional representation. I've been of the opinion that it favors only the fringe Parties,which it will to a certain extent,but as we now seem ruled by a Uniparty,at least PR might make cronyism a little more difficult.
We are forever condemned to being second class citizens to Quebec under the current system, especially the West. Though I voted against PR in the recent B.C. referendum, if it is ever brought to a vote federally,I will vote for it.
I should have known that when the Establishment Parties spent a fortune in their campaigns against PR, it had to have been bad for them and good for us.
I see no other way out of the situation in which we find ourselves,and no, Canadians aren't going to revolt. We're the most sheep-like people on the planet.
Too many nail-meet-hammer lines in this article to pick just one: in sum, Canadianna points out the SWAMP that is big business, big government, special interest groups, and their enabler-financiers, venal politicians. The citizens of other countries are finding heroes or causes whereby to take on the swamp, but will we Canadians do so? Not yet it seems.
I'm totally torn on PR. I guess I just want the part in power to not be corrupt, even if they don't represent my political POV. I could live with sincere players with a different vision. It's the constant buying of the rich -- I was reading a piece in Ricochet - https://ricochet.media/en/2553/political-interference-may-have-helped-scuttle-investigation-of-canadian-corporation It's just ubiquitous. I feel in PR, they'd just be buying one another. Not sure it'd make a difference.
Hopefully soon, Dollops. If we don't get too distracted hating each other.
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