Tue Sep 28, 2021 – 6:30 am EDT
(PJ Media) – The results of the recent and utterly unnecessary Canadian election, called two years before the expiry of a four-year term, and returning Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to the same minority government status as before, were not unexpected. Indeed, they were graven in stone — a tombstone, I’m tempted to say.
Although the slogan “the natural governing party” has been applied to the Liberals since the lengthy administrations of William Lyon Mackenzie King, there have been thirteen Conservative prime ministers since the nation’s founding, including the architect of Confederation, John A. Macdonald. Nonetheless, Canada is no longer a conservative country.
The one party true to conservative precepts and practices — belief in personal responsibility, freedom of choice, low taxes, small government, freedom of expression, a balanced budget, border integrity, energy self-sufficiency, and more — the People’s Party of Canada led by the principled Max Bernier, finished out of the running – a scathing judgment on an anemic and ungrateful country.
In fact, according to Justin Trudeau, Canada has no “core identity,” and he is probably right. Given a reasonably affluent electorate having taken its freedoms and privileges for granted
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