Now that the House of Commons has tucked itself in for a long Christmas nap, Canadians still rejoicing the defeat of the Harper Conservatives had best not hang their stockings by the chimney with any pre-notional care, and expect them to be filled with electoral promises kept.
Sorry Virginia, but if you were old enough to vote for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, then you are old enough to know the truth. You’ve been duped.
Yes, it is still early days, kiddo, but the new prime minister’s gifts to Canadians was read out in the recent Speech from the Throne, and there wasn’t much there.
Sorry if you felt left out. Get used to it.
Once upon a time, when I was around your age, Virginia, I voted for Justin Trudeau’s dear old dad.
Just once. You live and you learn.
Back then, about the same time as I was setting out for college to study journalism, I was mesmerized like you by the star power emitted by this other Trudeau, a veritably unknown justice minister at the time, but rakish, and promising the world to my generation if we elected him prime minister.
So we did.
And then came forced official bilingualism which not only still costs us billions a year but has created an impenetrable federal public service, a richly-rewarded haven for those who speak French and often only marginal English, but not for the flip side of that linguistic coin.
Today, thanks also to Pierre Trudeau, we have devolved into pocketed multiculturalism rather than having evolved with a cultural mosaic more adept at accepting differences and blending the hues of our society.
We have hyphenated Canadians now, Virginia, not that you are old enough to know anything different.
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Sorry Virginia, but if you were old enough to vote for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, then you are old enough to know the truth. You’ve been duped.
Yes, it is still early days, kiddo, but the new prime minister’s gifts to Canadians was read out in the recent Speech from the Throne, and there wasn’t much there.
Sorry if you felt left out. Get used to it.
Once upon a time, when I was around your age, Virginia, I voted for Justin Trudeau’s dear old dad.
Just once. You live and you learn.
Back then, about the same time as I was setting out for college to study journalism, I was mesmerized like you by the star power emitted by this other Trudeau, a veritably unknown justice minister at the time, but rakish, and promising the world to my generation if we elected him prime minister.
So we did.
And then came forced official bilingualism which not only still costs us billions a year but has created an impenetrable federal public service, a richly-rewarded haven for those who speak French and often only marginal English, but not for the flip side of that linguistic coin.
Today, thanks also to Pierre Trudeau, we have devolved into pocketed multiculturalism rather than having evolved with a cultural mosaic more adept at accepting differences and blending the hues of our society.
We have hyphenated Canadians now, Virginia, not that you are old enough to know anything different.
can you handle more...
Time for the truth: Liberal voters duped | BONOKOSKI | Columnists | Opinion | To