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Justin Trudeau’s announcement Monday that he intends to ban single-use plastics makes me wonder if he’ll end up being a single-use prime minister. We try him for four years, then we throw him out. To the dustbin of history, we used to say, but since dustbins, i.e., garbage cans, are a no-no these days, rephrase that to “the recycling centre for ex-politicians,” which will repurpose him as a university president, NGO chair, international commission leader, broadcast personality, TED-talker, for-hire inspirational speaker or maybe all of the above.
Banning single-use plastics is the kind of know-it-all nanny-ism that really riles people who don’t appreciate Parliament raining down — like thunderbolts from the deities — detailed prescriptions for how they should run their daily lives. They’re the sort of people who voted for Doug Ford. Or would have voted for him if he’d been running in their province.
Speaking of Ford, the unintended effect of anti-Tory TV ads showing a seated federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer with Premier Ford standing respectfully beside him may well be to solidify Scheer’s base among Conservative voters who doubt Scheer’s backbone. The effect the advocacy group Engage Canada intended, of course, was to tar Scheer with Ford’s policies. But in this world, unintended consequences abound, even if Engage Canada and other fans of ever-bigger government seem not to understand that.
The prime minister’s assurances that all future measures regarding single-use plastics will be “science-based” — which is different from “evidence-based,” which is what he promised in 2015 — is not reassuring. “Science-based” suggests he has a theory. “Evidence-based” suggests there are actual case studies showing that what he proposes will work.
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See Also:
(1) We can’t afford wall to wall pharmacare
(2) Privileged PM Justin Trudeau mocked in viral video
(3) Trudeau “is turning Canada into a clown country” — and his plastics ban proves it
(4) Canada becomes a pawn in economic war between U.S. and China
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If Canadians aren’t wondering why Saudi tankers are coming up the St. Lawrence to off load crude oil while our own oil remains locked in the ground because of government ineptitude and foreign financed interference. If Canadians aren’t alarmed at the subsequent loss of some $50B yearly to our economy. If Canadians aren’t intellectually capable of figuring Trudeau and his ilk out come October the county may very well needlessly suffer debilitating economic loss for decades.