Two Disasters

After the election, our nation is in danger of waking up to two national disasters - a Trudeau Government Re-elected and a Bloc Quebecois Revived. The only question for a true patriot strong and free is - which would be the worst disaster? 

Let there be no doubt anywhere about this - the BQ can claim there are just "nationalists" as they cunningly appropriate the CAQ agenda and thus hide their wolves' skins in the sheep's clothing of "Quebec First". But they are still separatists in the final analysis and they are likely back to inflict their peculiar brand of "humiliation" not on Quebec but on Canada of clinging to an utterly discredited scheme of archaic tribalism. They advocate a social and economic dead end for most of all the Francophone Quebeckers who ironically from time to time park their vote with their vapid tribunes.

You no doubt detect in my words a certain dismissiveness even mocking of the BQ. Surely, the sad, dismal 26 years of the Bloc have been a sometimes comical, often feckless and usually downright pointless saga. But it should not be forgotten that, after technically and laughably gaining the post of "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition" in our system of government, they came within 50000 votes of helping Quebec to leave this country in just two years. Then in 2008 they almost helped to mount a coup against the democratically elected Government of Canada. Many Canadians have not forgotten that, but the Press seems to be more sanguine about it talking about the prospects of this hideous group of irrelevancies becoming the third party in our Parliament again as if they were talking about Air Canada taking over Air Transat.

But that brings me to the other disaster. Our PM has not only reinvented and reenergized Quebec separatism's agent in Ottawa, he has also ignited the first serious signs of Western  Separatism since the 1980's. The real disaster and the one far worse than the BQ zombie dawn, is the possibility that a man whose chief legacies are these dangerous threats to unity and the breaking of laws and trampling on the Rule of Law will still be PM come Tuesday. The personal tragedy of a man of bad character is about to be our national tragedy. Will CBC, the Star or CTV please take note? 

But the other options have been so numbingly bad that what should have been a no brainer, that Trudeau must go, that it is a national imperative not just a partisan call that he go i s lost on many of us. This is lost as the Left Wing leaders simply parrot or amplify his destructive economic and fiscal agenda and the Tory Leader seems to be running against himself as John Robson suggested. This is added to by a compliant and fawning Press that has repeatedly acted as nothing more than an agent for the Liberal War Room. 

Evan Solomon incredibly suggested recently that this "crazy" campaign has seen no ballot issue emerge. Well, whose fault is that? Normally, THE ballot issue in any election is always "Should the Government (read Trudeau) be Re-elected?  Instead, one can be forgiven for thinking that the issue was whether Scheer should be re-elected. If the Voters of Quebec are sanguine about parking their votes with a clownish separatist cabal, will we the Voters at least save Canada from the larger tragedy of a renewed mandate for this renegade in power? Stay tuned...