March 2025
Published in the Toronto Sun, 7 April 2025
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that in 2015, former PM Stephen Harper was seen as stuffy, boring and not terribly exciting, but Justin Trudeau was seen as cool, hip and a true rock star! It’s no wonder Canadians chose Justin over boring Stephen, as he is one of the beautiful people that Derek Zoolander always talked about so affectionately. There were even fawning, alluring articles in glossy magazines, like Rolling Stone, with lovingly composed photographs showing off his beautiful hair and rock star looks, alongside a coverline asking, “Why can’t he be our president?” He was touted as the saviour of us all, with his equally beautiful wife and her Yoko Ono-inspired, off-key singing style, promising us legal weed and the opportunity to party with him at Taylor Swift concerts and costume parties featuring a variety of ethnic costumes and bananas.
Now, with our current PM, Trudeau 2.0, also known as Mark “His Majesty” Carney, coming down from his Manhattan penthouse to save Canada, we are back to having one of those super-boring, stuffy financial geeks, just like Stephen Harper, who once joked that he became an economist because he didn’t have the charisma to be an accountant.
So, are the Liberals trying to tell us that style is not more important than substance after all? Apparently so, but a very important question to ask Prime Minister Carney is will he fire candidate Paul Chiang for advocating for turning over Conservative candidate Joe Tay to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on the CCP’s arrest warrant?
(In 2015, the Liberals were willing to sell any narrative which put Trudeau in the most positive light, and bluntly, at the time Canadians were looking for change. Look where that got us as a nation. In a financial mess, an immigration crisis, high taxes and slow to no economic growth. Voting for Carney changes none of that — even if he is boring)
