It is Thursday. In three days the Conservative Party of Canada will announce the winner of their leadership contest but very little has been said about it this week in the media.
Instead, they are talking about the prorogation of Parliament and crapping on the Prime Minister for doing it. Oh yes, some are also questioning the qualifications of our new Finance Minister.
In a previous post I indicated that the resignation of Bill Morneau, the appointment of Ms. Freeland has his replacement and the prorogation of Parliament have been in the planning stages for a few weeks and that none of what we have seen this week is an accident.
Justin Trudeau has always been very subtle when he plays politics. Make no mistake, the implementation of this plan this week was partially designed to bait the media into ignoring the Conservatives in the week leading up to the election of a new leader. He knows that everything that has happened this week is not going to have much of an impact beyond the political class in this country, particularly in August during a global pandemic. However, hobbling the new leader of the Conservative Party out of the gate will be to his advantage in the coming weeks and months.
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It is now Friday, and the muckrakers are back to sniffing around for gossipy "scandals" about Rob Silver and Katie Telford, based on "anonymous sources" from Bill Morneau's office.
Meanwhile, a pandemic. Schools opening up. The utter shitshow south of 49.
Boy, are these guys out of touch. Interesting distractions though, if indeed that's the strategy.
As an aside, the NDP are making noises that they do indeed have the funds to go into a fall election, which I find dubious but whatever. So one hopes that the opposition are falling into PMJT's trap.
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