How Justin's Cowardice Fucks Us All Over

Duncan Cameron at rabble.ca has a good summation of how Justin Trudeau's Liberals are failing Canadians. Wisely, he first gets the obligatory dismissal of Canada's most electorally viable alternative out of the way:

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have an insurance policy. As the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race demonstrates, the official Opposition is many miles away from establishing itself as a government-in-waiting.
The leadership contestants have been appealing to the CPC right-wing base, recruited from former Reform party members. The CPC candidates failed to express themselves fluently in a French language debate. 

But following that his focus remains on the Justin Trudeau Liberals and their deliberate refusal to make any major policy decisions that would upset the coddled, entrenched oligarchy that really runs this country.

The Liberals have failed to demonstrate an ability to go beyond image management, and implement policies that help Canadians secure a better future. 

Intent on forging a poor new NAFTA, Canada under Trudeau has tied its foreign policy directly to U.S. policy: on Russia, by introducing and maintaining sanctions; on China, by contributing an arrest to the U.S. trade war against Huawei; on Iran, by breaking off diplomatic relations; on Latin America, by supporting the overthrow of the Venezuelan government; on Palestine, by refusing to condemn human rights violations by Israel; and by committing to new military options such as drones, instead of renewing peacekeeping operations with the UN. 

The world community was not impressed, rejecting Canada's bid to occupy a rotating seat on the UN Security Council. 

Major U.S. digital monopolies are replacing the brick and mortar retail trade, killing off print media, radio and television advertising (Facebook and Twitter); and Canada has not even figured out how to tax them. 

The parliamentary budget office just justified its existence by revealing that wealth inequality in Canada has increased exponentially -- the top one per cent have 25.6 per cent of all wealth, not 13.7 per cent as previously believed. How much longer can taxing wealth, inheritance, corporate capital, financial transactions and luxury good be ignored?

Now, as we all know, there are blogs, twitter accounts, pundits, etc., who are partisan hacks. Who shriek with indignation at the very thought of criticizing the precious Liberals. "The Conservatives are worse!" only works for so long as an excuse. After a while you have to give up on people who behave that was as the useless, brain-dead, stupid assholes that they are.

Let's face facts; Liberal cowardice KILLS. Our foreign policy kills people. It's so wrong-headed that you simply have to conclude that only that the people behind it are hopeless. They (and the Conservatives to their right) need to be extirpated. There are real-world costs (beyond the $15 billion in the latest round of bail-outs to Bay Street and the foreign-dominated Alberta oil industry) for continued inaction on global warming. When's the last time you heard any news about the suicide epidemic on First Nations' reserves? What stirring words and deep-seated reforms have we heard from Ottawa about reforming the RCMP? (You remember that violently misogynist, racist, institution that allowed that mass-murderer to rampage across Nova Scotia? And will there even be an Inquiry into that tragedy?)

We have to put pressure on the Liberals to do better. And when partisan hacks immediately start to cry about "haters" and "old men" when this obvious reality is brought up, it means that the party and its shills are going to resist. In a way, they're as much "resistors" as the corporate Democrats in the USA are: They're "resisting" YOU, not the oligarchy and the right-wing.