Uncle Sam's got Fluffy by the balls

Justin Trudeau is a lame duck PM. Trailing the charmless weasel Pierre Poilievre by 20 points in the latest polls. Facing down an uprising among his own caucus. Why doesn’t he just go away? While Justin didn’t inherit his dear daddy’s charisma, brains, or political savvy, he did get a generous dollop of the famous Trudeau arrogance. That’s what keeps him from making the smart decision, both for himself and the country. In late 2023, in response to a steady stream of leaks out of CSIS about election interference by China (remember those Chinese police stations in major Canadian cities!), he struck the Foreign Interference Commission to get to the bottom of things, or at least make it look like he cared. Meanwhile, our esteemed ally the USA, has developed a major hate for India, the world’s most populous democracy. Why? Because when Uncle Sam told the Free World to sanction Russia to death in February 2022, India’s PM Modi blew him off. Modi needs to be taught a lesson. So right in the middle of those foreign interference hearings, which were going nowhere fast, our US allies leaked some nasty intel to CSIS about how Modi’s agents were deep into harassing and murdering Canadians! The “Canadians” they were harassing and murdering were the militant Sikh separatists who murdered PM Indira Ghandi and blew up that Air India flight back in 1985. India understandably labels them terrorists. Overnight, the inquiry into Chinese election interference became all about India! In the big picture, Sikhs are less than two percent of India’s population, so not a serious threat to Modi. But in Canada they represent a good chunk of our ethnic vote, enough that our politicians find it worthwhile to pander to them. Canada is home to the largest Sikh population outside India. There are ten times as many Sikhs in Canada than the US. The DC brain-trust figured they can use Canada to antagonize India… and here we are! Canada has for years been routinely cast as a NATO free rider for not meeting our military spending obligations. Desperate to curry favour in Washington, Justin saw turning on India as his least bad option. Hell of a jam to be in, but totally predictable when you refuse to pursue an independent foreign policy and instead commit to vassalage to Washington.

Will 5000 Freightliners parked in downtown Ottawa get PM Fluffy's attention?

I was talking to a (very) recently retired trucker who plans to join the protest parade to Ottawa. He's taking his grandchildren. 

That protest hasn’t got much attention in the national propaganda organ yet, and what we’ve seen has been desultory and dismissive.

But it seems to be a happening thing.

The guy had been crossing the border several times a week throughout the pandemic. At this stage of the game, claiming he shouldn’t do that anymore unless he gets the “safe and effective” vaccine seems silly. Are we still flattening the curve, two years on?

He also says it’s about a lot more than vaccine mandates. People, at least actual people who do real work that can’t be done at home, are tired of being talked down to. They’ve been going backwards economically all their lives. Their kids are priced out of higher education and priced out of the housing market. Their dreams are massively circumscribed compared to past generations of working class people.

The CBC will do everything they can to portray them as anti-science morons, and most probably domestic terrorists to boot. There’s a lot of Asians drive truck, and hopefully they’re well represented among the protesters. After all, the Sikh-led farmer protests in India managed to force Modi to a climb-down, and he’s way tougher than Trudeau.

Alas, Jagmeet, leader of our putative “workers party,” has already denounced the protest.

A few thousand tractor-trailers parked in downtown Ottawa and Toronto for a week should get Justin’s attention.