The scandalous ruse of our nation’s federal Liberal leaders and their cunning strategists to blacken the names of their opponents is matched only by the blindness of voters who can’t see the charade perpetrated by these charlatans on a gullible public.
That’s the only conclusion—a sad, sad and frustrating conclusion—one can assess on seeing the Liberals soaring in the opinion polls while the Conservatives languish.
By any count, Conservatives Brian Mulroney, Preston Manning, Stockwell Day and Stephen Harper are head and shoulders above Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin. Not only in their vision for our nation, but in their own personal and professional ethical values.
As witnessed by Trudeau’s utter contempt for Parliamentary procedure—and for MPs being “nobodies,” when a few yards away from the House of Commons—and akin to Martin’s refusal to take non-confidence votes seriously.
We also have Chretien’s nonchalant appearance with his golf balls before Justice John Gomery’s inquiry. So there seems to be a certain arrogance and an attitude of being above the law by Liberals with both wealth and authority. The same-sex marriage bait-and-switch play is typical of Grit malfeasance.
Trudeau was born a fabulously rich man, who tried never to spend a penny of his own money, but blew as much of the taxpayers’ money as swiftly as he could.
Within a short time after coming to power in 1968, he doubled federal spending within two years. Hence the $500 billion federal debt that stymies our economy and our tax-ravaged paycheques.
Martin is another fabulously rich Liberal—his wealth is estimated at $200 million.
Like Trudeau, he hoards his own money carefully and is a master mariner at tax avoidance, as witnessed by his foreign flag scheme for his Canada Steamship Lines vessels.
Chretien has poured millions of taxpayers’ money into his St. Maurice riding, and there have been federal loans to business and party associates. He may laugh off accusations before Gomery’s inquiry with a handful of golf balls, but there still lingers that nagging doubt about his own part-ownership in a failing golf course and club venture, rescued seemingly by the largesse of federal taxpayers.
None of the above have apparently broken laws, but there are questions of fairness, particularly by those who should exemplify virtues they wish their residents to emulate. Just let any Conservative try to get away with such shenanigans.
The other side of the picture is Mulroney was born dirt poor, but by hard work and diligence made himself a relatively wealthy—and generous man. Manning, Day and Harper are individuals of only modest means. Likely because they have to watch their own pennies, they are careful in spending the taxpayers’ pennies, too. Not a bad quality.
Trudeau slashed the military budget, and Chretien allowed Martin as finance minister to do the same.
Under Trudeau, it happened at the height of Soviet aggression. Under Chretien and his puppet Martin, just as the rise of Islamic terrorism began.
The blood-letting of our health-care system was exacerbated by Martin’s drastic budget cuts in the early 1990s, yet he carries on the slur somehow it has been the Reform, Alliance and the current Conservatives who are the threats to health care.
The ruination of our relations with the U.S.—our closest neighbour, largest trading partner, and once closest ally—carried through from Trudeau to Chretien and to a lackadaisical Martin who thinks all is well between Washington and Ottawa. It isn’t. Which is why the last PM to get a real welcome in the White House was Brian Mulroney.
Think back to the Shamrock Summit in Quebec City when Mulroney and Ronald Reagan warbled When Irish Eyes are Smiling together.
Neither Chretien nor Martin could even get their feet inside the White House door they and their aides have disparaged Washington so much.
Mulroney, Manning, Day and Harper are “white knights” compared to their Liberal counterparts.
They painted a picture of our nation that should have us marching down the streets with our heads held high, rather than hiding from a world that looks in puzzlement as to how a once great nation has so demeaned itself economically, socially and culturally.
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