OP-ED: Apathetic Canadians keep rewarding the Liberals who betrayed them
Sue-Ann Levy writes: "I’ve discovered through my years of covering politics that many voters have very short memories and are easily seduced by faux promises."
Author: Sue-Ann Levy
I’ve discovered through my years of covering politics that many voters have very short memories and are easily seduced by faux promises.
Often when asked to vote in an election or leadership race, they either wilfully ignore or completely forget what a particular party has done to them in the years leading up to the vote.
Nothing exemplified this lazy thinking and apathy more than Sunday’s pathetic coronation of Mark Carney as the new Liberal leader, replacing Justin Trudeau after nine years as prime minister.
Canada is a mess, rife with illegal migrants from countries that don’t share Canadian values (including several Jew-haters), encampments and drug addicts, a radical woke gender agenda that has destroyed our education system and our major institutions and a crippled economy that has sent our Canadian dollar into the toilet.
I don’t recognize my country anymore, certainly not Canada’s largest city where the police have pretty much given Jew-hating protesters and drug addicts a free ride and where our mayor is more concerned about dressing up for and pandering to various diversity groups than actually running Toronto.
Many Canadians conveniently have forgotten how Trudeau treated us during COVID and his autocratic use of the Emergencies Act to quash the peaceful Freedom Convoy protesters in 2022.
A judge later ruled the Act’s use was unnecessary and unconstitutional. Back then, Trudeau wasn’t acting out of patriotism and nothing much has changed since those horrible days.
Blind Canadians have also forgotten how he and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland froze the bank accounts of protest organizers and donors.
Even now, 1,110 days later, Convoy organizer Tamara Lich still awaits a verdict in her mischief trial which has been delayed yet again until April 3rd.
While the Trudeau government charged Lich for her role in the peaceful protest, the Liberals have permitted terrorist sympathizers to harass and intimidate Jews in the streets and the neighbourhoods of Toronto and other major Canadian cities for 17 months now.
The hypocrisy is astounding, especially considering the number of scandals that plagued Trudeau himself during his nine years in office.
The self-described feminist treated some of his most competent female ministers like dirt.
Just ask Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Even though I was not a fan of Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau threw her under the bus after she’d carried water for him for years.
But intellectually lazy Canadians didn’t care.
They certainly didn’t care that Carney — who is nothing more than Trudeau 2.0 — used the tariff situation to manipulate public sentiment and snatch the Liberal leadership.
Given his absence from Canada over many years—as Governor of the Bank of England and his sinecure with Goldman Sachs — I’d venture to say his born-again patriotism was simply a means to an end.
Still, Canadians united around their hatred of the Big Bad Orange Man (and their Trump Derangement Syndrome) and a ridiculous “Elbows Up” Team Canada campaign.
They were seduced into thinking Carney would deliver them from the so-called evil ways of Trump, not paying the least bit of attention to the fact that the heir apparent was the pick of the very man who destabilized our country and left it in a mess.
It remains to be seen but I’m predicting that Trump will make “kreplefleisch” of Carney (Yiddish for minced meat) while his WEF strives to protect the Palestinians’ agenda.
Instead of conceding that Canada is a mess, that fentanyl is rampant and that our border is a problem, far too many Canadians jumped on the anti-American bandwagon, calling anyone who dared suggest Trump has a point, traitors and not “real” Canadians.
It has reminded me of the way the Canadian sheep and their willing allies in the legacy media reacted to COVID and why Trudeau was able to do what he did to the Freedom Convoy participants
When I came to Florida after my father died of COVID in late 2020 and wrote about the differences, I was accused of being selfish and sacrificing everyone’s health.
(I never did get COVID until the fall of 2022 and I caught it while at a conference in Vancouver.)
At this point, we have no idea whether Carney will call a snap election, or not.
He should because he really doesn’t have the mandate to govern.
But that never stopped the Liberal party.
Meanwhile, I find myself regularly in despair as of late about how easily far too many Canadians are seduced into supporting a party that has let them down time and time again and so easily wrap themselves in the Canadian flag because they were told that will save our country.
Mass formation psychosis is alive and well in our country.
Our new Liberal leader has not only taken advantage of it but has bargained that it will continue.
I think that we will have to wait and see with the election. I am in agreement with Sue-Ann regarding the discouragement and disbelief in how people continue to be so easily manipulated. However, I think that there are many people that we aren't hearing from who are suffering from the effects of the Liberal government - not being able to afford groceries, rent and many other things- who want change.
Much of what you write resonates. I also think of the military…those soldiers accused of sexual misconduct, cleared after reputations being smeared and their lives changed forever. It has come to the point in the military, for political purposes, innocent until proven guilty does not exist and privacy is not equal for all involved. The liberals want to make a statement yet their own conduct is abysmal.