Salutations from the Cult of Don Davies

The Canadian Election, What We Know, So Far

Conservatives err in revealing their platform a day after the debates. They should have waited until after the election.

We know platforms are kinda bs. We have Canadian Lumberjacks (oops typo predictive txt) Liberal supporters on social media telling us Trudeau has kept 80% + of his promises but neglect the bits he didn’t keep are on the humongous side, like electoral reform, social license on ramming pipelines up you know where, reconciliation with indigenous peoples etc.

Btw did you know there are only three western democracies who use first past the post? We can delight that we rub shoulders alongside the shit show basket cases of the US and the UK.

Andrew Scheer now appears as the peanut seller on the football terraces of my juvenility. Eanuts! eanuts, get your roasted eanuts! Tax cuts! tax cuts, get your Doug Ford tax cuts!

Sorta makes sense now why Trudeau would mention Doug at every turn. For those who don’t know, Doug Ford is the not so popular populist Conservative Ontario Premier who promised $1 beer, when in fact you could already pick up a can for $1.06.

Doug has delivered cuts to services and stickers that don’t stick. Yep, Doug wanted Ontarians to know how much carbon tax they were paying by putting stickers on every gas pump. Except they didn’t stick.

This from a man who inherited a label-printing business.

So toxic is Doug, Andrew Scheer had to fly out his successor, Albertan Fuhrer Jason Kenney, to campaign with him in Ontario.

Meanwhile pundits screamed we finally had a substantive debate on Thursday... in French. Other than most of the country not watching, there was a serious flaw. What made it work, was its Achilles heel. Using a three-on-three format meant two leaders (sometimes three) were left out from commenting on various topics. I felt sorry for Elizabeth May (Greens). Not because she wasn’t heard, but her translator didn’t seem to understand her.

We had a squabble in English a few days earlier. It was lame but I was warming to Jagmeet Singh (NDP), who seemed so natural you wondered what he was doing there.

Why were you there Jagmeet, you ruined everything! At least this seemed the cry from Liberal support on Twitter as their sights turned on the man in orange.

Talking of orange, I live in a sea of it, head east across the Fraser south of 19th and check it out, it’s like Trinity Street at Christmas, except in orange, and without Santas, reindeers, or lights. Otherwise, pretty close.

So there we are, just 10 days before an election, the Conservatives release their platform, before Thanksgiving weekend. Thanks (sarky emoji thing). The same old mob is pulling the strings.

Either it’s sheer (obvious pun intended) contempt for Canadians, or maybe they have a point, we don’t need several weeks of this babble and squeak.