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“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Johnny Rotten’s sneering kiss-off at the last-ever Sex Pistols show sounded the death knell of the punk movement. The hysteria surrounding his band of noxious yobs had oversold their shambolic performances, and Rotten knew the gig was up.
Justin Trudeau’s gig isn’t up until next year, but the plunge in his polling numbers suggests an electorate that feels cheated out of its movement. The “positive politics” promised by Trudeau are being spoiled by a rotten performance in office. The cannon shot that dropped Stephen Harper turned out to be a glitter bomb, one whose sparkle now lies spent on the floor, leaving an increasingly cynical government without cover.
The cannon shot that dropped Stephen Harper turned out to be a glitter bomb, one whose sparkle now lies spent on the floor, leaving an increasingly cynical government without cover.
If you haven’t noticed how far the prime minister has strayed from his ideals, a freshly elected Trudeau promised an agenda that was “positive and ambitious and hopeful.” He also promised a different way of doing politics, to be a leader who would never seek to divide us, instead taking “every single opportunity” to unite us.
Yeah, about that …
To those who marched here in Canada for an end to gun violence, we hear you – and this week we introduced a plan for common sense gun control that will keep our communities safer. ICYMI: https://t.co/SMbdpnLIbj
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 25, 2018
This week, our shiny happy prime minister imported America’s white-hot gun debate to help sell his firearms bill. “To those who marched here in Canada for an end to gun violence, we hear you,” Trudeau tweeted, turning an act of cross-border solidarity into a club with which to beat Conservatives, evidenced by the co-ordinated barrage of tweets from his staff and ministerial bots. Good politics? Maybe, even if our gun troubles are nowhere near America’s. “Positive” politics? Not so much.
ALSO: Ontario Liberal budget appears to work: New poll shows PCs unable to capture majority
And what of Trudeau’s promise to bring people of “all different perspectives” together? It’s hard to square that with the monomaniacal push to keep religious organizations away from jobs funding unless they renounce their opposition to abortion, as if giving living kids jobs has anything to do with the unborn. I’m crap at math, but that’s division to me.
Trudeau also said his government would be less secretive. Why, then, force MPs into a marathon voting session in the House of Commons rather than have his national security adviser give elected officials the same briefing on the Atwal affair offered as a channel-changer to journalists under the cloak of anonymity during his disastrous trip to India? Oh, right. And then there’s the Parliamentary budget officer who can’t get the figures he needs to query the government’s plans, and the reforms to access to information, which have done nothing at all to loosen the government’s sphincter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen through the eye piece of a television camera, as he takes questions from the media after addressing the UPS Conference in Toronto on Wednesday March 21, 2018.
“Know that we can make anything happen,” Trudeau told his election night rally, “if we set our minds to it and work hard.” Except reform the electoral system. Or get an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women off the ground. Or balance the budget. For this government, the hard work stops the minute the Instagram post goes out announcing the plan to have a plan.
The social sphere is the only place Trudeau works. He’ll meet anyone. To consult on anything. Wearing a costume, if possible. Just creep his snaps. What’s missing is the end result. If Trudeau were half as successful as his Twitter feed suggests, we’d call him Emmanuel Macron. Stephen Harper was accused of being a one-man band, but he was a solo act of substance, not clickbait for fanboys.
Stephen Harper was accused of being a one-man band, but he was a solo act of substance, not clickbait for fanboys.
And while Trudeau didn’t explicitly promise to be less arrogant, he would do well to remember that arrogance and entitlement are Liberal kryptonite, and that doing things such as standing on desks in the government lobby to congratulate his troops for covering his backside during said voting marathon isn’t inspirational. It’s out-of-touch. Like accepting free island vacations and overnight bags from multibillionaire spiritual leaders. But worse.
READ: Feds post deficit of $8.4B through first 10 months of ’17-18: estimate
There are many other examples to slot into each of these categories. Liberal supporters and Trudeau believers have every right to feel cheated, even if Trudeau hasn’t yet let them in on his joke.
So where is Trudeau taking his cues? One clue comes from Trudeau’s Malcolm McLaren — his principal secretary Gerry Butts — whose Twitter feed is an increasingly angry place. This is the same person, let’s remember, who Trudeau (v.2015) said shared his “conviction that politics doesn’t have to be negative and personal to be successful, that — that you can appeal to the better angels of our nature, and you can win while doing it.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures as he answers a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill.
Astute observers will note Trudeau didn’t say “govern while doing it.” But pretty soon he’s going to have to figure out a way to govern better, adhering to the mantra of positive politics he sold to voters, lest Andrew Scheer’s cheerful grin replace his in Canada’s embassies around the world.
“This is no fun, no fun, this is no fun at all, no fun,” Rotten moaned at his last gig, turning the Stooges’ classic into a retirement speech. One wonders if, privately, Trudeau is singing the same tune, and worrying whether he’s the stooge.
Andrew MacDougall is a London-based communications consultant and ex-director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper.
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Johnny Rotten’s sneering kiss-off at the last-ever Sex Pistols show sounded the death knell of the punk movement. The hysteria surrounding his band of noxious yobs had oversold their shambolic performances, and Rotten knew the gig was up.
Justin Trudeau’s gig isn’t up until next year, but the plunge in his polling numbers suggests an electorate that feels cheated out of its movement. The “positive politics” promised by Trudeau are being spoiled by a rotten performance in office. The cannon shot that dropped Stephen Harper turned out to be a glitter bomb, one whose sparkle now lies spent on the floor, leaving an increasingly cynical government without cover.
The cannon shot that dropped Stephen Harper turned out to be a glitter bomb, one whose sparkle now lies spent on the floor, leaving an increasingly cynical government without cover.
If you haven’t noticed how far the prime minister has strayed from his ideals, a freshly elected Trudeau promised an agenda that was “positive and ambitious and hopeful.” He also promised a different way of doing politics, to be a leader who would never seek to divide us, instead taking “every single opportunity” to unite us.
Yeah, about that …
To those who marched here in Canada for an end to gun violence, we hear you – and this week we introduced a plan for common sense gun control that will keep our communities safer. ICYMI: https://t.co/SMbdpnLIbj
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 25, 2018
This week, our shiny happy prime minister imported America’s white-hot gun debate to help sell his firearms bill. “To those who marched here in Canada for an end to gun violence, we hear you,” Trudeau tweeted, turning an act of cross-border solidarity into a club with which to beat Conservatives, evidenced by the co-ordinated barrage of tweets from his staff and ministerial bots. Good politics? Maybe, even if our gun troubles are nowhere near America’s. “Positive” politics? Not so much.
ALSO: Ontario Liberal budget appears to work: New poll shows PCs unable to capture majority
And what of Trudeau’s promise to bring people of “all different perspectives” together? It’s hard to square that with the monomaniacal push to keep religious organizations away from jobs funding unless they renounce their opposition to abortion, as if giving living kids jobs has anything to do with the unborn. I’m crap at math, but that’s division to me.
Trudeau also said his government would be less secretive. Why, then, force MPs into a marathon voting session in the House of Commons rather than have his national security adviser give elected officials the same briefing on the Atwal affair offered as a channel-changer to journalists under the cloak of anonymity during his disastrous trip to India? Oh, right. And then there’s the Parliamentary budget officer who can’t get the figures he needs to query the government’s plans, and the reforms to access to information, which have done nothing at all to loosen the government’s sphincter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen through the eye piece of a television camera, as he takes questions from the media after addressing the UPS Conference in Toronto on Wednesday March 21, 2018.
“Know that we can make anything happen,” Trudeau told his election night rally, “if we set our minds to it and work hard.” Except reform the electoral system. Or get an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women off the ground. Or balance the budget. For this government, the hard work stops the minute the Instagram post goes out announcing the plan to have a plan.
The social sphere is the only place Trudeau works. He’ll meet anyone. To consult on anything. Wearing a costume, if possible. Just creep his snaps. What’s missing is the end result. If Trudeau were half as successful as his Twitter feed suggests, we’d call him Emmanuel Macron. Stephen Harper was accused of being a one-man band, but he was a solo act of substance, not clickbait for fanboys.
Stephen Harper was accused of being a one-man band, but he was a solo act of substance, not clickbait for fanboys.
And while Trudeau didn’t explicitly promise to be less arrogant, he would do well to remember that arrogance and entitlement are Liberal kryptonite, and that doing things such as standing on desks in the government lobby to congratulate his troops for covering his backside during said voting marathon isn’t inspirational. It’s out-of-touch. Like accepting free island vacations and overnight bags from multibillionaire spiritual leaders. But worse.
READ: Feds post deficit of $8.4B through first 10 months of ’17-18: estimate
There are many other examples to slot into each of these categories. Liberal supporters and Trudeau believers have every right to feel cheated, even if Trudeau hasn’t yet let them in on his joke.
So where is Trudeau taking his cues? One clue comes from Trudeau’s Malcolm McLaren — his principal secretary Gerry Butts — whose Twitter feed is an increasingly angry place. This is the same person, let’s remember, who Trudeau (v.2015) said shared his “conviction that politics doesn’t have to be negative and personal to be successful, that — that you can appeal to the better angels of our nature, and you can win while doing it.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures as he answers a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill.
Astute observers will note Trudeau didn’t say “govern while doing it.” But pretty soon he’s going to have to figure out a way to govern better, adhering to the mantra of positive politics he sold to voters, lest Andrew Scheer’s cheerful grin replace his in Canada’s embassies around the world.
“This is no fun, no fun, this is no fun at all, no fun,” Rotten moaned at his last gig, turning the Stooges’ classic into a retirement speech. One wonders if, privately, Trudeau is singing the same tune, and worrying whether he’s the stooge.
Andrew MacDougall is a London-based communications consultant and ex-director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper.
查看原文...
