From the Foreign Desk: Sir John A MacDonald

What's the Plan

Canada, Citizen of Canuckstan: I was a fan of the early 21st century Battlestar Galactica series for a while. I always enjoyed the opening titles where they said that the Cylons “have a plan”. Except, as time when on, it became clear that the writers had no plan whatsoever and plot holes in the series were papered over and handwaved as fast as the writers could come up with the next line of BS.

I see a lot of similarities in the present political situation in Canada. First, when we started hearing about this new virus from China (and it is from China), Trudeau said that there was nothing for Canadians to worry about as it simply wouldn’t affect us. The frightening part is that many government workers, including ones responsible for emergency management, believed this line and never prepared for anything.

Then, Canadians were told to stay home for two weeks to “flatten the curve”, so that the virus would not overwhelm our health care system. Oddly, making the health care system more robust is not a priority now and has not been a priority for the last 2 years. Funny, that.

Next came the lockdowns, mask mandates, more lockdowns and promises that things would “get back to normal”. Take the vaccine and we all go back to our regular lives. Then the goal posts moved and EVERYONE had to take the vaccine for that to happen. Blame the unvaccinated, it’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated and it’s their fault. Numbers started showing that it was the vaccinated and triple vaccinated who were the most likely to be infected and the whole “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was dropped, but not before provincial health agencies started hiding their infection numbers.

Through it all, we’ve been told over and over again to “follow the science”, yet for some strange reason the “science” has always said that the solution was more government power. Are you picking up on a theme here? I think the Canadian government and Trudeau in particular simply has no plan (or tossed the one they had out the window) and does nothing but react. Like a single-cell organism, all they have is stimulus and response.

Which brings us to the trucker protest and the Emergency Act (which passed Parliament). Trudeau dismissed the truckers as holding “unacceptable views”, fled the capital and did his best to ignore them and their desires to see an end to all the lockdowns and mandates. He had no plan to deal with them. And they stayed. Border crossings blocked. Bouncy castles in the streets. All Trudeau does is escalate, so the Emergency Act was the next step, because now Trudeau’s pride is hurt, he feels threatened and does not know what to do.

And still there is no plan to end the federal mandates. I expect them to last as long as Trudeau thinks he can get away with them, as I expect the Emergency Act to be extended as long as possible. None of the parties want an election and the vote on the Emergency Act is a confidence vote. If Trudeau lost, there is another election. One that I don’t think he thinks he can win. But also one the other parties are not ready to fight. So, silence from the opposition benches, since they have no plan either. The Conservatives don’t even have a leader right now, and no timeline to elect one.

All because Canadians were led to believe that there is a plan, when in fact there is none. What’s next? Jail time for dissent. Bank accounts not just frozen but seized, as the government needs the money to make up for everything they’ve spent. Canada is going down a dark path. With no endgame other than Trudeau exerting greater and greater control over Canadians’ lives and opinions, I fear where stimulus-response may lead.