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Posted May 2, 2025

Power corrupts bullies hurt us all

To say “we had an election”, will be true by the time you read this column because at the time of writing the election is underway. I chose to take a snapshot of Canada while labouring to produce the best government possible to lead us through the Trump era. The President does not hide his hallucination of getting our Land and the power to command us to help him make America Great.

But “circumstances make the man” they used to say in Patriarchal times. Hence we hope whoever we elect to don a Mountie red serge, mount a white-horse and, St. George style lance the malarkey-blowing dragon to eternal silence.

It is all plausible. Remember the story of Chrystia Freeland who out-negotiated Trump before the Biden hiatus and victorious went to Trudeau’s office to report. She rolled herself on the carpet like a cat who got a rat, and said “Nenikicamen” (= we won) like Phidepides did after running the first “Marathon” ever. The Macleans magazine made her a Cover Page person and proclaimed her “Saviour of Canada” for her trampling the Trump.

We are having this election now, half-a-year earlier than scheduled. The reasoning for advancing it is highly amusing. Let me retrace the “theoretical” deduction for that.

In 2015, at age 34, Trudeau became PM of Canada. His qualifications for the job were “nightclub bouncer”, highschool drama teacher and a few months as MP of no distinction. Later on, he explained that he “had won the lottery of birth”, meaning to have been born to Father Trudeau. In 2021, in the midst of the Covid19 Pandemic Trudeau wasted some $1B to run an election that would buy him an additional two years at the public trough. That election was universally objected to, but brave Justin got his way, because we, the 40M of us had not enough democratia to stop one foolish brat.

Ignored arrogance grows. Trudeau’s progressed to the point that many MPs, whom we were compelled to “elect” after they had proclaimed allegiance to Trudeau, had turned against him after it became clear that Trudeau could no longer get them re-elected. They tried to convince him to retract peacefully but he would not , until the faintest hope of him re-fooling the people vanished.

Was Trudeau e worst PM in the history of Canada? Perhaps he was, certain being that there were several poor ones. It is hard to rate them, but so be it. What matters here is that the “system” produced, or did not prevent, unfits to “govern” us and Canada.

Trudeau did ask the GG (whom he had in effect appointed himself) to prorogue the Parliament until he would become a “goner”; then gave the GG his PM resignation effective a few months later, after the Liberal PoParty choose his replacement. A few months more at the trough, a few more months of us governed by whom his elves pronounced unfit for the job....

Elections in Canada are pre-scheduled to be four years apart. That is to say, if this suits the PM. But if the PM sees an opportunity to win, he can trigger an election at any time. All it takes is go have tea with the GG. The PM fakes distress for having lost the trust of his fellow MPs who had caused the GG to appoint him PM. Then the PM asks the GG to fire summarily all the MPs the people had appointed to govern the Land. Well, not quite “all” – “all” but the PM and his Cabinet cronies. They will keep on governing and do an election to produce a House Of Commons that (hopefully) have faith in the PM, him who the current MPs no longer trust.

It would have been proper for the GG to fire the PM along with his courtesans and ask the MPs, all the MPs together, to find and hire a new, trustworthy PM. But this would be sacrilegious to the system.

In the current instance matters were complicated by the fact the MPs who took ten years to discover that Justin Trudeau was unfit to govern Canada, chose Mark Carney to replace Trudeau. But Carney wasn’t an MP. To let Carney govern without being elected MP would threaten the “tradition” of the PM being an MP. This, in turn, would imperil Partyocracy, it being the clever way to surreptitiously neuter Democratia. This would be anathema to the architects of the system about which Jean Chretien confessed in his retirement book:

“To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it. Helping people comes with it naturally, [by-product or corollary damage?] because you’ll never be elected if you treat people badly. But no one will ever convince me, with all the experience I’ve had that the motivations are strictly altruistic. No – we throw ourselves into the politics because we love it.”

This, comes 2,500 years after Plato informed the world that bullies must be cast overboard so that the thinkers get to steer the ship of State.

All said and done, of the reasons PMs are ousted is traceable to Lord Acton’s adage “Power corrupts”. This while the rough-handling necessary to cope with the Bullies is scarce in a civilized society ...