Has the bat-signal gone out for the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity to insert the power of her mighty mandate into the current crisis? We need the full power of this enigmatic ministry to sort us out. It’s not like there’s anything else in that portfolio keeping the minister busy.
Has the word come in from the PMO to get the gender analytics team into full feminist gear, and by studious scrutinization of gender categories and sub-categories get a definitive X-ray of what this crisis is really about? Surely sexism must be at the heart of it, it being a truism with every progressive government that sexism is at the heart of everything.
Where’s the Deliverology Maestro now that the country really needs him? Has the wisdom of this sage so fully evaporated since the Liberals went into full symposium with him — children at the feet of a guru — in the early and cheerful days of their initial majority? If there was ever a time for deliverance this must surely be it.
It was at the very heart of Justin Trudeau’s triumph in his first election, that having vanquished the Mordor orcs of Harperland, that the country was going to be served by new thinking and fresh approaches, that anger and conflict would be no more. In an era marked by respectful thinking, exquisitely careful language, above all by the ability to listen, protests would be no more. Concord would reign, all would be sweetness and light.
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