Justin Trudeau and the “O Cannabis!” »

I apologize for returning to the resignation of Justin Trudeau which is already so far in the news, the holiday break explains my delay.

It is not easy to discern what history will remember from Mr. Trudeau’s time at the head of Canada. We can mention the record deficit, the explosion of migratory thresholds, progress in reconciliation with the Indigenous people or its unfailing adherence to multiculturalism with a postnational tendency even in its most eccentric religious and cultural excesses.

There is also the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) during the pandemic, the dental care program and its unfinished copy of the Quebec subsidized daycare program that we can highlight.

In fact, Justin Trudeau started a lot of things with results that did not stand out enough to stand out as great legacies of his time at the head of Canada. Everyone can choose what they think is tastier from this buffet where nothing is sufficiently gourmet for my taste.

I believe that Justin Trudeau could have left a great legacy by changing the voting system, but he preferred to follow in the footsteps of those who made this promise before him and abandoned it in a very cavalier manner.

Invigorated by their comfortable majority, Trudeau’s troops began to wonder why change a system that already serves them very well. They then set up a bogus commission to torpedo this major electoral promise. The job of distraction was entrusted to what was then the young and inexperienced Federal Minister of Democratic Institutions, Maryam Monsef.

So, hearing the same Mr. Trudeau regret not having reformed the voting system by announcing his resignation makes me want to go to a branch of the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) and freeze my brain until spring.

The legalization of cannabis is the legacy that seems to me the most obvious from Justin Trudeau’s time at the head of Canada. Let us also remember that he fell back on this touted project to make people forget that he had thrown his promise to change the voting method into oblivion.

Indeed, when this cannabis legalization project became serious, the hubbub it triggered from coast to coast made us forget Maryam Monsef’s charade around the reform of the voting system. I was one of the citizens concerned about this issue. In question, most of the elected officials who debated this subject declared in front of the cameras that they had never touched cannabis.

It is true that knowing how to speak with confidence about subjects about which one knows absolutely nothing is one of the qualities required in a certain way of doing politics, but this was a little too much. It seems to me that on such a sensitive subject, the former hippies in the House of Commons who know what they are talking about would have been much more credible.

Allow me a little aside to better return to Justin Trudeau’s assessment.

You know, THC, its real name Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, was not invented by nature while waiting for the arrival of CEGEP students looking to live a sensory experience with a common industrial chocolate bar.

As with its cousin hops, in cannabis, it is the female flower which represents the part most prized by consumers. Humans taste the bitterness of hops and smoke cannabis flowers.

Hops produce terpenes that belong to the same molecular group as THC and have the same function in the biology of both plant species. These are “poisons” intended, among other things, to repel insects or attract hippies.

A female flower is at the same time a nerve center, a bed of love and a cradle in the making. After fertilization, it is transformed into a closed chamber to offer the unborn baby (the seed) a safe development environment. It is therefore the organ most protected by cannabis plants.

When the flower is fertilized, all the exits which allow reaching the growing seed close. The chemical defense is then replaced by a physical protection barrier. This causes the plant to reduce the energy invested in the production of THC that the pot smoker desires above all else.

This is why cannabis growers of old hated plants with male flowers. They saw them as enemies of the quality of their future harvest. While the female flower produced cannabinoids to ward off insects or attract hippies, the grower fought against the male flowers whose pollen grains could spoil his harvest.

Before biotechnology got involved in production, traditional cannabis cultivation was an activity of protection, affection and high regard for female flowers. She asked the horticulturist to love and protect female flowers.

This is a bit like what Justin Trudeau should have done with the strong women who work with him. Mr. Trudeau appears to be truly feminist and open to all diversity. However, with women not being forced into it, he has left some unfortunate escapades in his wake.

This is what happened recently with Chrystia Freeland. This time, like a pot of THC-packed cannabis, Freeland hit the former drama teacher hard.

Now, what was the name of the other strong woman who spearheaded the law legalizing cannabis? She had a predestined name, Jane Philpott. I happen to think that if this minister who had never felt the feeling of THC in the neurons led this file of pot brilliantly, to resolve the housing crisis, we should perhaps call on Gabrielle Destroismaisons.

What else happened with Jane Philpott? Long before Chrytia Freeland’s resignation, she stood up to Mr. Trudeau alongside her friend Jody Wilson-Raybould. We know the rest.

All this to say that even if it is difficult to doubt Justin Trudeau’s very assertive feminism, he has a stain on his record in that regard.

So, I have a proposal to help Justin Trudeau erase this mistake and regain glory before leaving.

If the Canadian Prime Minister, who defines himself as a fighter, wishes to regain notoriety, I suggest he launch a combat challenge to Elon Musk who spends his time insulting him, calling him incompetent and an idiot.

This unbearable character now behaves like an alpha male that nature has provided with two pairs of testicles. So, as he did with Senator Brazeau in this fight which gave him wings, if he still has energy left, Mr. Trudeau should offer a fight to Musk.

Even if the boss of Tesla refuses the duel, the proposal will be relayed across the planet and his star would fade among the masculinists who idolize him.

Well, I know there is violence in boxing, but as my grandfather said, if you can’t get it with a smile, try with a bite.

I wish you a happy new year 2025!