Why is Pierre Polievre so mad all the time?
Was he born that way, angry upon delivery? Did he ferret out cabal-induced conspiracy theories while he was a whip of a lad, a mere pup? Did somebody push him off his scooter? Do they purposely keep him under-fed so that he projects as perpetually hangry?
There has to be a reason, something more than Justin Trudeau. Polievre is either a very angry man or he’s a man willing to tap into the anger of others who are disillusioned, bitter, resentful, and mad themselves about a whole host of things. These people tend to be mistrustful of politicians, yet they’ll trust this one, which serves as one of the great ironies of politics. The irony of a demographic of people supporting a politician for all the wrong reasons, who says he’s going to steamroller the elites and make Canada great again, not that we ever were or that we’re not right now. A demographic that will vote for a person who, if you scrape him down, will not be in their best interests at all.
That’s voter manipulation, something the very worst of politicians do. They make it sound like they’re on your side, but really they’re on their own side, and you’re just the pony that’s going to take them where they want to go. Happens all the time. Particularly with “angry” politicians.
Look at the Conservative caucus in the House of Commons. Look at their faces. My goodness, it’s like looking at a similar body in Iran or some other angry place. They’re just absolutely beside themselves in petulant poor humour, only smiling or laughing when one of their own delivers some sort of rude “zinger” at the government, particularly Trudeau, who they refer to as “Justin,” as if there’s something wrong or worthy of ridicule in a man’s given name.
Polievre has blown a tonsil over the recent news that Trudeau has referred the issue of foreign interference in Canada’s elections to a parliamentary intelligence committee. “It’s a cover-up!” he thunders, just the latest in an entire litany of cover-ups he suggests have been perpetrated by the dastardly Trudeau.
Polievre claims that high-ranking members of CSIS and the RCMP were so disillusioned with the prime minister and his perceived foot-dragging on the issue that they leaked the danger of foreign interference to the press themselves in an effort to save Canada from its very own prime minister.
Hmm. That’s pretty bad, but I have to ask a simple question. When did the RCMP ever have the competence or capacity to do something like this, have it work, and then get away with it? I don’t know how CSIS operates first-hand, but since they’re Canada’s closest thing to spies, I assume everything they do is in secret, so if they leaked it and Polievre found out about it, then they’re not very good at keeping secrets.
Nevertheless, Polievre says there’s an “intelligence uprising” at these two entities.
Check this out, from Polievre.
“They must be very worried about how the prime minister is working against the interests of his own country and his own people. They’ve been warning him for years about this. And what has he done? He’s covered it up, even encouraged it to continue. And so, they (CSIS) are so concerned about how the prime minister is acting against Canada’s interest and in favour of a foreign dictatorship’s interest that they are actually releasing this information publicly.”
Wow. Trudeau in bed with the Chinese. That would indeed be a big deal.
But Pierre can do even better than that.
“We know that Justin Trudeau admires the basic communist dictatorship in Beijing, he said so. It’s no wonder they support him. And they have worked hard to keep him in power.”
Trudeau admires China’s dictatorship? Really?
What Polievre conveniently leaves out of his diatribe is the fact that the prime minister was warned by CSIS of foreign interference as long ago as 2010 and nothing was done. Except that prime minister, the one who served in that post until 2015, was none other than Conservative Stephen Harper. Pierre doesn’t mention him.
Anyone who follows geopolitics would be able to tell you that foreign interference in democratic elections, and other things, has been going on for a long while. They’d be able to tell you to watch out for the Russians, the Iranians, and possibly above all, the Chinese. You might just as well throw the Americans into that mix as well.
What I don’t understand is why the Chinese would be hoping for Liberal electoral success over that of the Conservatives?
Given the results of the Two Michaels issue, the cancellation of Huawei as a 5G internet provider, increased Chinese surveillance of Canadian territory and communications, Chinese aggression and intransigence regarding Taiwan and the South China Sea, and the summoning of ambassadors and heightened diplomatic rhetoric, I can’t see a lot of happy in the Liberal-CCP relationship. Now the Canadian government is banning the Chinese app TikTok on government-issued phones, you’d thing that China would absolutely hate the Liberals.
To me, China would revel in the role of disrupter, with a goal of undermining democratic institutions and processes, getting us to turn on one another, yell at one another, fight with one another if necessary. You know, like in America.
The goal is to create a political paralysis that China can exploit in the pursuit of its own aims. In other countries, Russia has specifically targeted the far-right of the political spectrum and helped to successfully agitate them to “rise up” against the elites. In Canada, that politically would be the Conservatives. I wouldn’t see China as being any different in their approach.
The Chinese are diabolical and endlessly patient. Whatever they’re up to, you can bet it’s no good. But we needn’t worry. Those intelligence leaks? We can be assured that they’re being investigated.
By CSIS and the RCMP.
NOTE: References to China and Chinese are directed at the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, and not the people or the nation of people.
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