Well, the news from Ottawa these days is that, well, there is no news. Everything is at a standstill. PM Justin Trudeau has announced that, maybe, at some time, in the near future, he will step down as Prime Minister. Brings to mind a great quote from someone who, if they didn’t know our PM personally, new his style.
Laurence J. Peter co-author of the 1969 best-seller, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.
A 1976 Vancouver Sun article quoted Peter offering this advice from U.S. writer and humorist James Boren to a group of local administrative professionals:
“When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. And when in doubt, mumble.”
Parliament has been dysfunctional for several months because the government won’t turn over documents that they should turn over and the opposition keeps filibustering (whatever the hell that is) until they comply with their demands.
In the meantime Justin Trudeau has asked the Governor General, the government’s elitist travel agent, to prorogue the non-functioning parliament that isn’t working into the parliament that can’t work. Gotta love democracy in Canada.
This in the face of the President-elect and chief barker for the clown show south of the border threatening to not only place a 25 per cent tariff on anything sold to Canada but he also wants to make us the 51st state.
For those of you who are getting excited at the prospect of becoming an American and gaining access to the American Constitution with its beloved second amendment, hold on for just a minute. Annexing Canada would include annexing Quebec! Hell, we haven’t figured out how to deal with them. Has Donald not thought this through? Of course not. He couldn’t locate Quebec on a map, or with the aid of Google GPS.
Now, according to the Globe and Mail, even China is offering to help Canada in its fight to ward off Trump’s tariffs. The French are mad at him as are the English and the Germans are just pissed. Who’d have guessed? But wait, if the Americans come for us we have a lot of tools at our disposal in our own defence. Forget firearms, our public safety champion Justin has taken most of them out of our hands. No, we have a better defence.
For starters, there is the Ambassador Bridge. Remember what happened when a half-dozen truckers with ugly tatoos and Canadian flags showed up there a while back. Nothing moved across our border, with the exception, of course, of illicit drugs and guns! What did the Americans do? Nothing.
They won’t come in winter because they don’t have enough snow tires to go around and all of the skiing lift tickets have been sold out up there at Blue Mountain and in the Laurentian Mountains and the avalanche season is underway out there at Whistler!
They can’t come in the spring because all good Canadians will be down in Florida at Dunedin watching the Blue Jays training camp! The black flies will be in full mating mode up here, with the mosquito season not far behind and no American can tolerate that duo of pestilence.
Canada just ain’t that easy to take. Mr. Trump has just spent too much time down there in Mar-a-Lago Florida trying to flush assassins out of the underbrush with his nine-iron.
Quite frankly with the current state of our country and the carry-on up there in Ottawa by our over-privileged politicians, we would be hard pressed to give this country away!