Yes, Canada has a general election on October 21st and the electorate who understand and appreciate today’s political reform movement should get out there and kick some @$$. Which came to mind when casting my vote in the advanced polls. This Liberal government has been remarkably corrupt. And amazingly the party has been unable to bury two significant scandals. One involving a contract for a Royal Canadian Navy supply ship and the other in protecting a corrupt Quebec company. With the demise of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1990, the Liberal Party of Canada became the longest-running and most successful political party in the Western World. Originally when liberal meant liberal it was based upon a regard for limited government, but with the charismatic (“Trudeaumania”) P.E.T. Trudeau in the late 1960s the party began its drive to represent an increasingly authoritarian bureaucracy.
Liberal bungling under Trudeau, the Younger, is just not limited to possible criminal acts
And Liberal bungling under Trudeau, the Younger, is just not limited to possible criminal acts, but their overall history includes just plain stupid policy moves. In the 1970s, it was the threats from not enough atmospheric ozone. As the “Smithsonian” recently recalled, ultra-violet radiation from the Sun was “ Aids from the sky”. Then the almost terminally anxious got revved up about “Global Cooling”, “Acid Rain”, the shocking “Alar on apples” tout, and today’s “Climate Emergency”. All of course prompting hysteria, justifying regulations and taxes.
Enhanced by an uncritical media huckstering each promotion.
And now, the urgency for intrusion and taxes is based upon the notion that for the first time in geological history there is too much CO2 in the air. Actually at 150 ppm life on this planet begins to shut down. And also, for the very first time in geological history a warming trend threatens all species with extinction. Somehow overlooking how ice ages have been so disruptive. Ice a mile deep can ruin your whole day. Actually, one need not go that far back, but just to the late 1300s when the Little Ice Age began to cause so much hardship and famine.
Bill C-69 which is intended to control and prevent expansion in Canada’s resources
While there is no valid theory or empirical evidence relating CO2 to climate change and/or warming, the wondrous molecule is today’s hobgoblin. And in excoriating fossil fuels, the Liberals have gone along with preventing pipeline construction to Eastern Canada. Preferring that oil tankers ply the pristine waters of the St. Lawrence. In the West, adequate pipeline expansion is prevented because the pristine waters of the Pacific must be protected.
And then there is Bill C-69 which is intended to control and prevent expansion in Canada’s wonderful bounty of resources.
These policies are not examples of the “ends justifying the means”. The “end” will be a Venezuelan economic collapse, which any Liberal would not want. You can’t tax poverty. Motivation is not the ultimate tragedy, it is control which makes the process or the “means” everything. To the harm of everyone except the political and bureaucratic hierarchy.
Nihilism will prevail until it is seen not to work, However, the drive to nihilism can be curbed by voting control freaks out of office. Images of Liberal politicians and bureaucrats having to find real work are delightful.
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Unashamedly, the Liberals have and will continue to employ fear to remain in power
Checks and balances, essential to accountable government have been bypassed and to understand the need for reform it is best to take a definition from physics of an authoritarian system. That which is not compulsory is prohibited. Gotchas coming and going, which aptly describes any ambitious party. The result is in-your-face and in-your-wallet government. And in becoming too much, is prompting popular uprisings. The last successful uprising by ordinary folk, bereft of intellectual guidance, took down the Berlin Wall and official Communism. No mean feat, but since 1989, control freaks have come up with even more compelling ways of arousing fear, in order to provide a remedy. In the 1920s, the acerbic H.L. Mencken got it right with his line about imaginary “hobgoblins”.
Fortunately, there seems to be a new paradigm. Over the last couple of years, seven provincial elections have voted in “small c” governments, restraining busybodies. This could be ominous for the federal status quo, particularly as the Left in becoming hyper is splitting its vote between Greens, NDP and, shudder, the Liberals.
Unashamedly, the Liberals have and will continue to employ fear to remain in power. And the seamless union of bureaucrats, judiciary and media is striving for a one-party government. Forever. They don’t care how much they damage the economy, just so long as they have control and the privileges of office, which is the ultimate in political vulgarity.
Get even, vote and kick some butt.
Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s. Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.
Yes, Canada has a general election on October 21st and the electorate who understand and appreciate today’s political reform movement should get out there and kick some @$$. Which came to mind when casting my vote in the advanced polls. This Liberal government has been remarkably corrupt. And amazingly the party has been unable to bury two significant scandals. One involving a contract for a Royal Canadian Navy supply ship and the other in protecting a corrupt Quebec company. With the demise of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1990, the Liberal Party of Canada became the longest-running and most successful political party in the Western World. Originally when liberal meant liberal it was based upon a regard for limited government, but with the charismatic (“Trudeaumania”) P.E.T. Trudeau in the late 1960s the party began its drive to represent an increasingly authoritarian bureaucracy. 
