I already unintentionally made up slogans for two of the federal political leaders, so let’s flesh that idea out.
Justin Trudeau: “I’m not as bad as the other guy.”
It infuriates me that after 9 years this is the best he can do. We should have had electoral reform. In criminal justice, we should have moved in the direction of Charter rights and economy. We should have had demonstrated environmental improvement, not just regulatory reporting requirements while oil and gas companies get subsidies to pollute. Every single person under Justin Trudeau’s Canadian jurisdiction should have access to clean water by now. Dare to dream of a world in which his star shone so brightly that we didn’t end up in year five of people potentially catching a miserable and disabling disease every time they go to work or access health care.
But that’s not the universe we live in, and the best he can muster, over and over, is “I’m not as bad as the other guy.” All while capitulating in advance to the guy who is worse. Great leadership, dude. Thanks for the weed.
Pierre Poilievre: “I will bring you The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m open to discussing The Purge.”
I’ve mentioned that I’m doing a year-long compassion course because it seems important to me to develop the capacity for empathy. That does not seem to be what drives Poilievre. It bothers me how much of the population seems motivated to try to control and punish and exploit other people when there are other choices that can be made, some of which would be more consistent with, you know, Jesus’s teachings or whatever.
Jagmeet Singh: “I, too, love the middle class.”
Noticing that Trudeau had moved right, Singh moved right too, detecting a juicy electoral void in the “middle class” centre. This is disappointing, when another strategic possibility was to leverage rage and principle in favour of a better world than the very bad status quo the NDP used to be aware of.
Yves-François Blanchet: TBD.
Until recently, the main impression I had was that Yves-François Blanchet was trying to dissociate from all this bullshit, and I would have opted for “I don’t know them” as his slogan.
But now he seems quite interested in holding the balance of power, pushing the Liberals to support two Bloc PMBs as the cost of delaying an election. Bill C-319 definitely sounds like a bill the Liberals would support in rhetoric and thwart in budget, and I look forward to seeing the Bloc’s procedural manoeuvres to avoid that trap. Bill C-282 I would have thought had no chance since it binds the discretion of the Minister strangely, but I see it’s already at committee in the Senate. I guess that’s how we feel about supply management.
(“YFB: PMB; TBD” appeals to me acronymistically, but it is far from bilingual.)
Green Party: “I think it’s Elizabeth May again.”
Bonus points if Elizabeth May herself actually said this.
Federal political slogans
I already unintentionally made up slogans for two of the federal political leaders, so let’s flesh that idea out.
Justin Trudeau: “I’m not as bad as the other guy.”
It infuriates me that after 9 years this is the best he can do. We should have had electoral reform. In criminal justice, we should have moved in the direction of Charter rights and economy. We should have had demonstrated environmental improvement, not just regulatory reporting requirements while oil and gas companies get subsidies to pollute. Every single person under Justin Trudeau’s Canadian jurisdiction should have access to clean water by now. Dare to dream of a world in which his star shone so brightly that we didn’t end up in year five of people potentially catching a miserable and disabling disease every time they go to work or access health care.
But that’s not the universe we live in, and the best he can muster, over and over, is “I’m not as bad as the other guy.” All while capitulating in advance to the guy who is worse. Great leadership, dude. Thanks for the weed.
Pierre Poilievre: “I will bring you The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m open to discussing The Purge.”
I’ve mentioned that I’m doing a year-long compassion course because it seems important to me to develop the capacity for empathy. That does not seem to be what drives Poilievre. It bothers me how much of the population seems motivated to try to control and punish and exploit other people when there are other choices that can be made, some of which would be more consistent with, you know, Jesus’s teachings or whatever.
Jagmeet Singh: “I, too, love the middle class.”
Noticing that Trudeau had moved right, Singh moved right too, detecting a juicy electoral void in the “middle class” centre. This is disappointing, when another strategic possibility was to leverage rage and principle in favour of a better world than the very bad status quo the NDP used to be aware of.
Yves-François Blanchet: TBD.
Until recently, the main impression I had was that Yves-François Blanchet was trying to dissociate from all this bullshit, and I would have opted for “I don’t know them” as his slogan.
But now he seems quite interested in holding the balance of power, pushing the Liberals to support two Bloc PMBs as the cost of delaying an election. Bill C-319 definitely sounds like a bill the Liberals would support in rhetoric and thwart in budget, and I look forward to seeing the Bloc’s procedural manoeuvres to avoid that trap. Bill C-282 I would have thought had no chance since it binds the discretion of the Minister strangely, but I see it’s already at committee in the Senate. I guess that’s how we feel about supply management.
(“YFB: PMB; TBD” appeals to me acronymistically, but it is far from bilingual.)
Green Party: “I think it’s Elizabeth May again.”
Bonus points if Elizabeth May herself actually said this.