Posted by Our GQ poster-boy Prime Minister Trudeau Jr. is in the Philippines right now illustrating what an incompetent intellectual and political lightweight he is. Every Canadian should be embarrassed by his train-wreck of a foreign policy, but most won’t because there are too many equally obtuse liberals in the ranks of Canadian voters. You know the ones, the people who say all Americans should be embarrassed and ashamed they have Trump as a President but somehow don’t recognise that the opposite extreme on the political spectrum can be just as corrosive. Fools like Tasha Kheiriddin at Global News who writes, “But whatever his reasons, he took a stand when others wouldn’t. It was the right thing to do.” We’re talking geopolitics here Tasha, not your politically-correct Toronto crap. It wasn’t the right thing to do because there is no clear definition of right… Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot that in your little unicorn farting rainbows bubble-world, what YOU and the other SJW crowd say is right MUST be correct because you are the ultimate arbiter of all that is right and moral in the universe.
After his meeting with Philippine President Duterte, Trudeau Jr. made this statement to the media, “The president was receptive to my comments, and it was, throughout, a cordial and positive exchange.” Well, that’s no slam dunk bromance but at least it sounds like he didn’t make a hash of things by insulting his host or something. Sadly, Trudeau must have met Duterte’s body double clone because the Philippine President seemed to have a somewhat different impression from their meeting. “I said, ‘I will not explain.’ It is a personal and official insult… It angers me when you are a foreigner you do not know exactly what is happening in this country. You do not investigate.” Looking at the video of the speech, it appears that the written press censored the best bits of Duterte’s public response where he said, “that’s why you hear me throwing down epithets, curses, (unintelligible), bullshit and everything.” Oh well, at least Duterte didn’t call Trudeau a “son of a whore” like he did President Obama.
If it were limited to just annoying the President of the Philippines, it might not be so bad; but junior has managed to do it to a large swath of Asian leaders. In an earlier meeting last week in Vietnam, Trudeau managed to piss-off leaders of ten countries including Australia and Japan by performing a last minute prima-donna no-show at a meeting that was supposed to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ‘Screwed’ by Justin Trudeau, leaders fume over scuppered Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, screams the headline of the Australian news. Mr. Trudeau failed to show up at a meeting late on Friday that was set to officially revive the agreement. “There were a lot of unhappy leaders left sitting there… Everyone was screwed,” said an official who was in the meeting reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Pretty impressive stuff for only a one week trip junior – Canada and the taxpayers would have been better off if you just stayed at home and kept your pretty (but stupid) mouth shut.
Sadly, only two days ago, the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation was waxing eloquently and shamelessly parroting verbatim Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland statement that, “This is the first time Canada will be present … that is a really big deal… The East Asia Summit is the top table in Asia on security issues. Canada has never been there before, so when the prime minister says ‘Canada is back,’ the fact that he has been invited … is a very, very important sign of that…”
Canada will formally ask to join the summit — which is held every fall and coincides with the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders’ meeting — as a permanent member, something that could prove elusive as membership has only been expanded a handful of times since its creation. In 2011, the last year there were additions, the U.S. and Russia were invited to join. The summit’s 18 members must reach a consensus on whether to lift a current membership moratorium and allow Canada to join.
The title picture to this piece was shamelessly lifted from The Economist which ran a 14 October 2017 article titled “Trudeau’s flying unicorn hits a storm.” If junior’s glowing halo was already starting to dim before this last week, his train-wreck performance in Asia has certainly knocked it down a few watts more. Seriously junior, what possible good can come from pissing off every leader in the Asia-Pacific region? Do you think for even the briefest of nanoseconds that your harping on about your progressive agenda will have even the slightest impact on their domestic policy? Or are you doing it just to please the smart-ass, holier-than-thou, do-gooders at home who say we should tell everyone on the planet what to do because we are so obviously more moral and smarter than them and we have all the answers so everyone on the planet should just do listen to what we say because it’s “the right thing to do?”
Even at the height of their imperial power with all the accompanying arrogance and hubris that status imparts, England and now the United States knew that empty words without the hard power to back them up accomplishes nothing. Stop pretending that Canada is more than a bit-player on the world stage; We do not wield any hard power and very little soft power. “Canada is back”? Come on, the reality is that Canada was never there to begin with so how can we be back. Here’s a news flash; the real world works on realpolitiks – that this concept has lost favour amongst the ivory tower liberal elite in Ottawa does not mean that it isn’t true. I’ve got bad news for junior and the liberals; if your goal was, as your minister so clearly stated, to formally join the summit permanently, you pretty much managed to scupper any hope of that happening with this abysmal performance.
But liberals like to live in their warm and cozy soy-latte reality-shielded bubbles where unicorns frolic in the meadows eating organic locally-grown honeydew rainbows. As they are so fond of telling everyone else in a sad attempt to demonstrate moral and intellectual superiority, the science is so incontrovertible, there is no debate. Like our jerk of a governor general (I refuse to use the term right or honourable as she is neither), Julie Payette, who made a speech which arrogantly and condescendingly mocked anyone who questioned climate change or believes in creationism. “Can you believe that still today in learned society, in houses of government, unfortunately, we’re still debating and still questioning whether humans have a role in the Earth warming up or whether even the Earth is warming up, period… And we are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process let alone, oh my goodness, a random process…” The author of the CBC opinion piece had a great point, “Payette didn’t simply ‘state facts’ as some of her defenders have insisted. (In any case, stating a fact can still be perceived as making a political statement; had Payette flippantly dismissed traditional Indigenous healing methods instead of cancer patients taking sugar pills, I doubt she’d be afforded the defences she’s currently enjoying from many observers.) Rather, she appeared to deride people for their beliefs.”
So here’s some interesting facts that seem to never come up at liberal back-slapping cocktail parties in Toronto. Let’s start with a small thing like the pretentious liberal eating habits. No I’m not talking about the whole inane gluten-free even if you don’t have celiac disease craze. I’m talking about the bigger eating local and organic craze (which is partially mirrored in the anti-GMO movement that is particularly strong in Europe). Remember, most people who believe in these sorts of diets are also the same organic soy-latte fair-trade drinking urban sophisticates who like to spout off about the science of climate change being incontrovertible. It’s all about the science you see – unless the science doesn’t support their beliefs then it can be blissfully ignored. As this article from the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation informs us, “If you’re paying more for local and organic groceries because you care about the environment, here’s some bad news: science shows your efforts won’t have much impact on your carbon emissions.” You can read about the different scientific studies that show that both organic and locally grown do not help save the planet at your own leisure. As one of the researchers said, “There’s a [perception] that organic agriculture is a lot more sustainable than conventional agriculture is, so I guess I was kind of predisposed to believe that too until I looked at the data.” The study found that organic and conventional agriculture “did not differ significantly in their greenhouse gas emissions.” In other words, we have been brainwashed and lied to by the mass media and NGO’s to automatically believe that “organic” is better, healthier and environmentally friendly. That’s how liberals can justify paying double or triple the price for the same tomato at Whole Foods. If it wasn’t better, healthier and environmentally friendly, you would have to be a complete moron to pay triple the price – therefore it must be true because I’m not an idiot – is how the flawed circular logic flow goes. Except the facts and science says it isn’t so… which kind of makes liberals a bunch of suckers who are trying to rationalise their stupidity behind a facade of pseudo-science. As far as the anti-GMO movement goes, the overwhelming majority of scientific studies have shown that there is no basis to the fears about “Frankenfoods” and yet Europe still mostly bans them. In other words, the liberal crowd only listens to the science when it supports their predetermined view on things which kind of puts the cart in front of the horse.
A more controversial topic would be green energy which I tackled earlier in this article about the renewable energy business. I don’t want to go back and rehash the same arguments I made previously but just wanted to point out some new facts about the economic black hole that Ontario is creating by its insane clean energy policies. Suffering from a massive political backlash about soaring electricity bills due to their pet “green” energy projects, the Liberal government passed the Fair Hydro Plan to reduce the cost to consumers. In case you missed it, “the plan was rolled out in full this summer and will have a net cost of $21 billion over 29 years, according the province’s financial accountability office. It includes an 8-per-cent rebate for customers enacted in January, in addition to a “refinancing” of some power costs that will see the government and Ontario Power Generation Inc. take on billions of dollars of debt.” The plan was blasted by the auditor general for basically trying to hide the true cost of the government’s bungled “green energy” plans from the consumer (by giving him an immediate 25% bill reduction) and masking the government’s cost (ie, hiding the impact of this subsidy from the government’s official deficit book) by saddling the Ontario Power Generation company with billions in debt which will eventually have to be paid back by the consumer (ie, even higher electricity bills in the future) – but of course all this will be after the election in mid-2018. British Columbia, on the left-coast, apparently is also on to this shell game with its crown corporation monopoly on power and is also saddling BC Hydro with debt in an attempt to make its own crappy provincial finances look better. You want to talk about science, let’s talk about the dismal science of economics. I have no problem with wanting to pursue solar, wind, hydro, tidal, geo-thermal or whatever alternative “renewable” and “emission-free” power source you want to promote. What I have a problem with is the lie that these things are cheap and economical as it is clear that they are neither and always involves a huge massive government (ie, taxpayers) subsidy to get going. Nobody would advocate polluting for the sake of it, but if you want to be “clean”, be also clear and honest about what the true cost is to the average person rather than lie about it in twisted half-truths about how it is cheaper than burning coal. As I said in my earlier article, if alternative energy was already more cost-effective than fossil fuels (as claimed by a not so unbiased government subsidised clean energy hack), then there would be no need for government involvement or subsidies at all. To make a claim to the contrary, which is what our government and media tends to do, is nothing more than lies and propaganda to support their own skewed political views.