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Among the most ludicrous of campaign pitches, and there were so many to choose from, was the latter-day lunacy that if you, the voter, wanted to save the planet, you had to vote Liberal. The hubris in that claim was equal to its idiocy.
Canadian elections are not about the world. It is not ours to save, or (all deference to Greta the Grinch) to destroy. Canadian elections are about Canada, how to make it better, stronger, more healthful and secure for its citizens. They are — or should be — exercises where party leaders refresh our sense of Canada’s aspirations and ideals as a country, a nation.
Above all they should be about making sure the arrangement we have with ourselves — the Confederation — goes through an ever-necessary renewal, answers to contemporary challenges, and continues to secure the peaceful, prosperous and highly successful country that Canada is.
Well … a person can dream, can’t he?
For the election we have had, the clumsy, trivial, demeaning and small election just over, answers none of these qualifications. It was a scramble between mediocrities. And the morning after, what do we have?
The frictions and anxieties out West over the deplorable treatment of its main industry, the harassment of regulations and protest and court delays that have paralyzed development and driven billions of capital away from Alberta, had — before the election — produced a mood and sentiment of near universal anger about the West’s place in Confederation.
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See Also:
(1) Andrew Scheer’s narrow vision of conservatism was his party’s failing
(3) So, how did all that pandering to Quebec work out for you?
(4) ‘Totally tone deaf’: Canadians soured by leaders’ victory and concession speeches
(5) Nothing but a ‘vanity project’: People’s Party of Canada is likely dead, experts say
