The prime minister arrived home from liberating Southeast Asia from itself last week to be confronted with a raft of problems, from disloyal caucus members to India’s wrath over Khalistan. His opponents relished the consequences as he testified under oath before the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday.
But Justin Trudeau has entered his Sir Lancelot phase, where he rides about the countryside with a pure heart, his lance pointed at enemies of the PMO Round Table, hoping to make suburban damsels swoon again.
In the face of blistering criticism from within and 25 per cent approval ratings, he blithely offers a confident yes/oui when asked if he plans to contest another federal election. Even his harshest detractors wonder at his serene confidence as the ship sinks around him. Like his father – who tried to create world peace in his last days as PM – Justin has gone to another plane.
Some suggest he can’t quit for reasons personal or for future employment in the globalist job market. But those expecting Trudeau to be burdened by the here-and-now miss his self-appointed mission. His divine task can be summed up as “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
If that sounds familiar it’s because this chrysalis image has been Kamala Harris’ dreamcatcher in her run … er, her imposition upon the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Like Harris, who had 3.5 years as vice president to do something about her pet causes, Trudeau wants Canadians to ignore his scandal-plagued nine years as PM and envision a new tomorrow of his possibilities. He wants to lead them into the nirvana of a mankind unburdened by fact-checking or Commons committees.
In his breathy incantation of change is a message of purity. It’s also the definition of Marxism. As author James Lindsay writes, “Marx’s ontology of man … is that man is naturally socialist. Indeed, being socialist, Marx says … is what makes him human in the first place. Man is not Homo economicus. Man is Homo socialismus, socialist man, but he’s lost his way …
Enter gallant Trudeau as the hero to complete that conversion of Canada to a stateless, classless society with high economic standards and controlled speech. To do so, however, he must unburden Canadians from their icky past of imperial conquest and Constitutions. Like the climate hysterics, he wants you to return to an idyllic past by launching yourself like Elon Musk into the future. (Okay, Musk may be a bad comparison.)
To ascend with him into the heavens of socialism will require being Green and bisexual and vegan and DEI conscious. And denouncing those of your neighbours who stray from the narrative. While losing your notions of classic statehood and religion.
For Marxists that last bit has always been the rub. When sane people point to the hundreds of millions killed in the failed socialist experiments of the USSR, the Soviet Bloc, China, Cambodia and Cuba, Marxists contend it was because people failed the state religion, not the other way around. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution tried mightily to eliminate the Four Olds: ‘old ideas’, ‘old culture’, ‘old customs’, and ‘old habits’. No matter how many of his citizens Mao killed, they still were not worthy of the task. So Mao starved them to death.
For Trudeau, who came of age in a Quebec looking to replace the Roman Catholic religion as the moral force in their lives, his quest has a religious quality. It’s why, teddy bear in hand, he knelt before fake graves of fake murdered indigenous children. And told the UN that Canada must struggle against its genocidal past.
Nothing speaks more to this quest for purity than his promotion of a carbon tax to reduce emissions. While not even its most fervent supporters can say that it has curtailed any significant pollution in the atmosphere, the escalating charges serve a vital point. The suffering they inflict on Canadians is a test of their worthiness in the “what can be”. It’s why the government so strenuously contends that the tax actually benefits average Canadians. Canada must be made clean by suffering, even as China and India belch tonnes of pollutants into their air.
“What can be” is also behind DEI and ESG. The burdens they place on Canadians are meant to be painful, to unhinge them from their “olds”. Trudeau and his Glee Cabinet embrace the struggle-session motif of peasant versus pit boss (even as they live like pit bosses). He sees a day when, led by his selfless example of sending the Mounties against truckers, Canada can proudly take its place among her great postmodern states whose citizens surrender to an all-knowing state.
Where he can hang with Kamala’s Marxist Daddy, Barack Obama. Obama ran the master class in 2008 on the Woke notion of “You didn’t build that road. You didn’t build that bridge.” It was an admonishment to the creative class to know your place in a modern state where all must be shared. In his telling, slavery, feudalism, and capitalism are history moving inexorably toward social organization without consciousness.
Obama later borrowed (stole?) from Martin Luther King Jr. when he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice”. Trudeau realizes that he’s been in charge for a long time but dreams that, if he hangs on long enough, justice will one day declare him the new man, unburdened.
Good luck with that.
Bruce Dowbiggin is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the eighth best professional hockey book by bookauthority.org. His 2004 book Money Players was voted seventh best.
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