The federal Liberals released a video ad over the weekend that features fake feminist Justin Trudeau on a transit bus. Fitting as how he has made a living over the last four years of throwing people under them. Meanwhile, whacky Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was caught admitting over the weekend that the carbon tax may keep escalating year after year after year after year, well beyond what was ‘promised’. If you want more of your money going to government to waste, then vote Liberal.
The federal Conservatives have released a video ad too, called ‘Time For You To Get Ahead’. It’s a very positive ad, no negativity in this ad (although their Justin Trudeau Not As Advertised is very negative) and it gets my attention. Leader Andrew Scheer says he has a plan to allow Canadian citizens to keep more of their money and that’s what matters to me as I’ve given more away in the last four years than what I did when Trudeau got into power and helped me join the middle class by stealing from my pocket.
My personal polls are very informal and I don’t proclaim to know thousands of people in every province; but the reports I’m getting is that BC isn’t in love with Trudeau anymore, but they aren’t voting Conservative either. The Maritimes are not nearly the shoe-in for the Liberals that they were in 2015. The Liberals took all 32 seats in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, and Newfoundland on the last go around. Provincially, both New Brunswick and PEI have gotten rid of their Liberal governments and the current Nova Scotia Liberal government is on life support and is despised. I’m also told that outside of Montreal, the support for Trudeau’s Liberals isn’t great and the same can be said in Ontario outside of Toronto. You do have to wonder what is it that makes the west so anti-Liberal and the east so pro-Liberal. I am hopeful that as Canadians, most of us are on the same page come October.
Meanwhile, radical right winger Max Bernier was on the receiving end of a private company investing in a billboard campaign that opposes mass immigration. Pattison Sign Group has announced these billboards will be coming down due to overwhelming criticism. It seems a little odd because I didn’t even know about the sign campaign until Pattison announced they’d be coming down. Having said that, there are a number of polls out there that suggest as many as ¾ of Canadians have concerns about immigration.
I’ve been called a racist for my concerns about immigration as I’m not allowed to think critically about things such as our healthcare system, which is already under a lot of stress and struggling to provide for people who live here let alone even more people who may be coming down the road. Asking for people who aren’t a drain on the social welfare system is also racist, apparently. I’m not suggesting all immigrants are on welfare, I’m just saying let’s make sure we are accepting people who can contribute so that the well being of all is improved. What I’ve seen in recent years is a lower standard of living.
In Thompson, Manitoba last week, a police officer was acquitted of manslaughter and other shooting charges in relation to the death of a man who was shot twelve times by the officer, hit by nine bullets, after the officer decided to pursue him on the suspicion of driving while under the influence. You can read about the case online if you are interested, but the judge in the matter said Constable Adam Letkeman did make a series of mistakes that led to his own life being put in danger but because his life may have been in danger, the shooting was justified. The defense also argued that sending Letkeman to jail for making a mistake would send a chilling message to police officers everywhere in the event they make an error on the job. Isn’t that interesting. Here in Yorkton we sent a 21-year-old man to jail for a year for a possible ‘mistake’ that resulted in a car accident that two people lost their lives and the 21-year-old man himself was almost killed. Did that judgement send a chilling message to all drivers that if you are in an accident that is your fault and you happen to not die you will go to jail?
The CFL was the subject of some bad jokes after that disaster of an NFL preseason game last week in which the field was reduced to 80 yards because it didn’t pass a safety test. This was not a CFL issue at all. This was on the NFL and the promoter of the game. For what it’s worth, Oakland coach Jon Gruden said he didn’t know what all the fuss was about. He said everything was fine, but of course that didn’t get much media attention because it’s no fun being positive.
