Did we need another grotesque spectacle to measure the abyss between this government and the reality of Canadians? Apparently, yes. Trudeau, true to form, doesn’t just push the boundaries of ridicule: he explodes them with fascinating arrogance. We just have to read the file of Journal on how things are going in Ottawa to understand it.
Candy and chocolate
Consider this “revolutionary” announcement of a GST holiday on certain products. Imagine the scene: battalions of civil servants, hunched over their Excel tables, discussing feverishly to establish THE list of eligible goods.
Because a 5% discount, it is certain, will transform the ends of the month of over-indebted households. Who can believe such nonsense? Nobody, except perhaps those who invented it.
This exercise is further proof that nothing is going well in Ottawa, while services are at their lowest, both in terms of accessibility and quality, while civil servants are paid handsomely, the machine seeks to save us money 5% on cheese droppings!
You have to do it!
And let’s talk about aid checks. Whose imagination concluded that a couple earning $300,000 desperately needed a $500 boost? Meanwhile, a retired couple with $40,000, overwhelmed by bills and groceries, is entitled to nothing.
But let’s not be fooled. This isn’t incompetence, it’s downright cynicism. This government no longer even pretends to offer us services, no matter how basic, or to seek to make itself more efficient, faster and more economical.
No. He distributes checks like throwing confetti, with your money – or rather with the money borrowed in your name. All to buy a little popularity in the short term, even if it means ruining the future.
By the way, they don’t govern. They improvise. They play a life-size Monopoly, where money becomes a simple electoral lever and where real priorities and responsibilities are thrown into oblivion. And we, helpless spectators, must watch this shipwreck in silence.
