This article came to me described as “Well Written” Trudeau – by Garry Harrison.
Say what you will about Pierre Trudeau – and you may say
many negative things about a man who deliberately chose to spend
the Second World War sitting on the sidelines, who shilled for Red
China while it murdered tens of millions of people, who was a
life-long apologist for Soviet Communism, who began a relationship
with a teenager when he was already an old man, who nearly spent
Canada into bankruptcy, who tried to steal the wealth of the West and
ruined a generation of Albertans, whose quest for personal glory
nearly broke the Canadian federation, and who recklessly fathered a
daughter when he was a septuagenarian and therefore left a little girl
of nine without a father when he died – but it is beyond dispute that
he was at least an intelligent man. It is true that he was also a
cold, reckless, and destructive man, but there was definitely
something there.
Of Justin it may be said that he has managed to inherit all of the
flaws of the father – his recklessness, his arrogance, his
willingness to apologize to and appease enemies of our civilization,
and his almost-unique ability to be wrong about every issue of
significance. Whether or not he inherited the other qualities of his
parents – that is to say whether his personal life is as dissolute and
debauched as that of his father – is not currently a matter of public
record, but I imagine that it will be soon enough. However, it can be
said with certainty that Justin Trudeau did not inherit his father’s sole
virtue: everything that is already in the public record suggests that
Justin Trudeau is a profoundly stupid man whose only qualification for
national leadership is that he has a famous name. That he should, at
this particular juncture in history, be considered a contender for
national office ought to shame all Canadians.
What, pray tell, has this man ever accomplished in his entire
life? His biography is available for all to read. Young Master
Trudeau, so far as I can tell, has never held anything resembling a
real job for any length of time. His biography describes him as having
been a teacher, but he was still a substitute teacher at least as late
as 1999 (he worked at my High School) and he appears to have begun a
never-completed graduate degree in 2002. Before that – when he was
already in his mid-twenties – he was a ski bum in Whistler. In other
words, this would-be Prime Minister appears to have – at the absolute
most – had about three years of full-time work experience before
seeking to lead the nation. This man never led anything in his entire
life. Quite literally he doesn’t have the requisite experience on his
resume to be hired as the Manager of a Starbucks. Indeed, to be very
clear, the last sentence wasn’t intended to be at all insulting to
anyone who either manages or works for Starbucks – I’m a frequent
customer and it is, by all accounts – a very challenging job. But,
surely, we can all agree that Prime Minister is a job that requires at
least the same level of previous management experience as Starbucks
management?
Consider all that you have achieved in your own life. Most of you,
I presume, are from background rather like myself. That is to say that
you are from middle class families and had to earn your way through
life. You had to work to pay your way through school. You had to worry
about paying the rent, about saving money for a down payment, about
how much of a mortgage that you could afford. Most of you have
probably worked bad jobs or taken work beneath your education and
dignity because we simply needed the money. Some of you probably
missed out on having fun – on ski trips to pick one relevant example –
either because you could not afford them or because you simply had to
work. That, you and I probably both believe, is simply a natural part
of life. All of that is quite foreign to Justin Trudeau.
Now, I am both a conservative and a capitalist. I do not begrudge
or resent great wealth and privilege in and of itself. One of the
primary aims of my own life is to eventually earn (and manage to keep,
in the face of a rapacious state) enough so that the next generation
of Yoshidas doesn’t have to make compromises when it comes to
fundamental life decisions for financial reasons. I think that people
have a right to earn as much as they can and to pass that along to
their children. But, as the children of privilege get to enjoy certain
advantages in life, so do I believe that those to whom much is given
have a profound moral responsibility to contribute to the world in
some fashion exchange for all that they have been given in life.
And what, we ought to inquire, has Justin Trudeau done with his life
and privileges? His accomplishments such as they are – eternal years
as a student, two partially-completed Masters’ degrees, and perhaps a
few years of work experience – are scant when compared with those of
the average middle-class Canadian of modest means and background. I
could literally walk down the street outside of my home and pick out a
hundred random people with more work experience, education, and life
experience than Justin Trudeau has. When you consider that this man is the
child of a multi-millionaire and carries arguably the most famous name
in Canada, his below-average record is particularly shameful. This man
had every single advantage that it is possible for a young Canadian to
have and that is all that he could do with his life?
In general, I view the idle rich to be more objects of pity than
ones deserving of hatred. That calculation, however, changes rather
rapidly when they aspire, as Justin Trudeau does, to translate that
unearned privilege into power over the rest of us. If “Justin Trudeau”
were instead “Justin Thompson” it’s pretty safe to guess that he’d be
collecting EI and writing a screenplay on a battered laptop at some
local coffee shop. The only reason why we are threatened with the
prospect of this man in 24 Sussex is that he carries a famous surname.
It is the greatest of ironies that so much of the support for this
particular man comes from the sort of people who spend the rest of
their time re-blogging Tumblr articles on “white privilege.”
Now, as Canada prepares to join the fight against ISIS and the
other Islamist barbarians who threaten our people and way of life, we
see that Justin Trudeau intends to use his unearned privileges to carry on
his father’s tradition of serving an an apologist for and appeaser of
all of the enemies of our civilization. In this he is, most
regrettably, simply carrying on in the long tradition of a Quebec
political establishment whose behaviour in the face of our enemies has
long been disgraceful and immoral. Just as the Quebec political
establishment took seditious and at times almost traitorous positions
in the face of the German threat in both World Wars (shameful episodes
that are somehow generally hushed-up in the retelling of our history),
today Justin Trudeau is, as his father once was, on the other side in the
great crusade for civilization.
Justin Trudeau in 24 Sussex – probably in coalition with the New
Democrats – would likely be fatal for the Canadian Federation. How
long do you think, in this day and age, would the Western Provinces
remain willing to accept the dictates of a Quebec-controlled
government hostile to the very basis of its entire economy? This child
doesn’t have the political skills or the experience to navigate such a
potentially-perilous situation, for not only is he unfit to lead the
nation, but he is also an unworthy successor to his predecessors as
Leader of the Liberal Party who, for all of their many faults, were at
least men of accomplishment and substance.
If you believe in individual merit – if you believe that we should
have a country where accomplishments matter more than your name – than
join me in rejecting this haughty and arrogant child who would presume
to rule over us all.
