Our Prime Minister has been working hard lately. Maybe he needs a holiday.
Seems we have a border problem. President Elect Trump is upset with Canada over the flow of Fentanyl from Canada into the United States. All twenty kilos of it. The DEA report indicates that; “some fentanyl products are smuggled from Canada into the United States, on a smaller scale” (DEA Intelligence Report, 2020). This in contrast to the tons of the stuff coming from Mexico and Asia.
As a result, Mr. Trump threatens to impose a twenty-five percent tariff on all goods going from Canada to the US, the worry being that it will be devastating to our economy. As if we aren’t already struggling with the increasing price of ammunition and components for Canadian shooters!
So, in response to this threat our dear Prime Minister, along with his version of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, headed south to Donald’s holiday resort home in an attempt to rescue Canada, like Clint Eastwood in the movie Two Mules for Sister Sara. Oops, perhaps mules is not a great analogy in reference to fentanyl, my bad!
But, what about the guns coming north, Mr. President? Crickets.
This all pales in comparison to the additional three-hundred or so more firearms added to Mr. Trudeau’s Order in Counsel making these firearms prohibited and therefore nothing but Safe Queens for their owners in the government’s further attempt to ensure greater public safety.
According to Lorne Gunter, in his article in the Toronto Sun of 5 December, 2024 states:
“If legally owned rifles are such a threat to public safety, how come all the guns that were in place before the ban are still in the same hands today? The ban and confiscation have so far cost taxpayers more than $70 million without even one gun being collected by the government”.
The Government now says it will start collecting these firearms next year. Yeah, right. With Canada Post still on strike; the RCMP terrified to collect these guns; particularly in remote rural areas; Shoppers Drug Mart just waiting for the first person to walk in with an AR-15 in their hands to turn it in and First Nations upset because they wanted to eliminate the SKS as well, it looks like 2025 will be a banner year for our Federal Liberals. Interesting how they like to kick problems further down the road before acting on them.
It now seems that our Prime Minister is very afraid of only two things in life. Legal gun owners and soon to be American Presidents. The question now seems to be, which one is going to bite him in the ass first, gun owners and the election polls or Mr. Trump with his twenty-five percent solution?
On top of all these problems, Trudeau now faces the ultimate test of office, what to do with Harjit Sajjin, the so called Honourable, Minister of Emergency Preparedness for Canada. Seems he bypassed Ticketmaster and got his tickets to the Eras Tour by way of a gift from BC taxpayers. Seems he had tickets for the gathering in Toronto, which he bought and then sold them (nobody said for how much) then decided to take the free ones in Vancouver when offered and even convinced the local ethics people out there that it was OK take them! Controversial? Not for the Liberals, it seems.
With all this going on, what is a tired Prime Minister to do? If I were in Justin’s shoes at this time I think I would be calling up my buddy, the Aga Khan and seeing if he has a free room available for the upcoming Christmas holiday. Hey, he went once!
Happy Holidays, Mr. Prime Minister!