Trudeau to run at last?

[Brad Sallows]

Yeah, Canada was such an evil land of oppression prior to 1982.  :

 

[youravatar]

Internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War... I know it's a stretch. But with these new anti-terror laws...

 

[FastEddy]

Internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War... I know it's a stretch. But with these new anti-terror laws...

We don't do that now, we just pay them $37,000.000. Now the line is forming on the right.

You know Syria can't be that bad, all these B.....ds are coming back fatter than when they left, no scars, all their finger nails, no broken bones.

 

[a_majoor]

Happy new year for the MSM and Liberals:

http://dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com/2006/12/young-pretenders-return.html

The Young Pretender's Return

Bonnie Prince Justin, the great hope of Canada's own modern-day Jacobite movement, is ready to take back the throne that his partisans claim is rightfully his:

Justin Trudeau is poised to leap into federal politics and seek a seat in Parliament next election, according to a media report.

Maclean's magazine says the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau suggested in an interview that he would make an announcement after Christmas about a possible run.

....

It quotes Gerald Butts, a close friend the magazine describes as being "tasked with taking control of Trudeau's slip," saying Mr. Trudeau, 35, wanted to discuss the timing of the announcement with new Liberal leader Stephane Dion to make sure it complemented party strategy.

"I think he's pretty much there," Mr. Butts is quoted as saying. "He just doesn't want a speculative story published before he's ready."

Too late.

It appears the magazine took those comments and Mr. Trudeau's earlier hints as proof he had made up his mind. Mr. Trudeau was noncommittal in a later interview with Maclean's.

If Trudeau runs, Stephane Dion will end up running an entire campaign in his shadow. The media will be all over Justin in an attempt to recreate Trudeaumania. His every campaign presence and utterance will be recorded and reported far and wide.

The press will turn to him to offer thoughtful commentary about his party's policies and the maintenance or restoration of his father's legacy.

The subtext will be clear--here is the once and future king, speaking to his future subjects.

Stephane Dion's successor is about to be brought into the camp.

Are you ready for Trudeaumania II?

Source: Ottawa Citizen

If young Trudeau has wall to wall media coverage, we can only hope he has learned from the Micheal Ignatieff school of rhetoric.

 

[FastEddy]

Happy new year for the MSM and Liberals:

http://dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com/2006/12/young-pretenders-return.html

If young Trudeau has wall to wall media coverage, we can only hope he has learned from the Micheal Ignatieff school of rhetoric.

If any Liberal, that's still in possession of a 1/2 a ounce of Grey Matter, would support him because of the late PET. Then they are in more trouble than they think. Especially in Quebec.

Having always voted Liberal (whether it was from force of habit or not), that is until the next election.

Mr Harper and the PC's have my vote, its such a refreshing change to see someone trying to run the Country.

If the Liberals are playing the "Trudeau Card" , then they are more desperate than we imagined. I may be wrong but it looks all too engineered for my liking. If Canadians fall for this, then we deserve what we get.

I would say give Mr. Harper a Majority Government, see how and what they do, and if not vote them out. Maybe, just maybe the Liberals have learned a few lessons over the  years from sitting as the opposition. But it looks like they are off to a bad start all around.

Cheers.

 

[geo]

From my perspective, having Mr Rae & Mr Trudeau "on side" for the next election will probably be more of a liablilty than a benefit to Mr Dion - who is still cememting himself at the helm of the Fed Liberals...........

 

[Edward Campbell]

Much as I detested the father in life (sub standard human being, worst prime minister in history, etc, etc) I have no brief for or against the son.

I suspect that he was exposed to, perhaps indoctrinated into is a better phrase, the same provincial (small, petty, not Québec) mindset which has kept so many Québec politicians from reaching their potential; but not all Québec politicians – history if full of great and hear great Québec politicians who overcame the understandable tendency to see every problem through the Québecois lens.

Parliament needs a steady supply of new blood.  Very, very few parliamentarians – regardless of lineage – succeed in doing very much for (or, thankfully, to) their country.  We should all welcome a bright, articulate young Canadians who shows some panache and some common sense, too, I think

Personally, I wish him well as he battles to sustain his own self in the face of what will be an onslaught of mindless adulation from ignorant, celebrity obsessed Canadians and highly focussed shaping from a small coterie of power hungry Liberal hacks, flacks and bagmen.

Good luck to him, I say.  I will not, any time soon, anyway, vote Liberal again – not until a new leader wrings out the last vestiges of ‘70s Trudeauism out of the party’s policies and power structure.  Who knows, perhaps Justin Trudeau will be man enough to put Pierre Trudeau in his proper place as nothing more than a bad, sad memory.

 

[observor 69]

Much as I detested the father in life (sub standard human being, worst prime minister in history, etc, etc) I have no brief for or against the son.

I suspect that he was exposed to, perhaps indoctrinated into is a better phrase, the same provincial (small, petty, not Québec) mindset which has kept so many Québec politicians from reaching their potential; but not all Québec politicians – history if full of great and hear great Québec politicians who overcame the understandable tendency to see every problem through the Québecois lens.

Parliament needs a steady supply of new blood.  Very, very few parliamentarians – regardless of lineage – succeed in doing very much for (or, thankfully, to) their country.  We should all welcome a bright, articulate young Canadians who shows some panache and some common sense, too, I think

Personally, I wish him well as he battles to sustain his own self in the face of what will be an onslaught of mindless adulation from ignorant, celebrity obsessed Canadians and highly focussed shaping from a small coterie of power hungry Liberal hacks, flacks and bagmen.

Good luck to him, I say.  I will not, any time soon, anyway, vote Liberal again – not until a new leader wrings out the last vestiges of ‘70s Trudeauism out of the party’s policies and power structure.  Who knows, perhaps Justin Trudeau will be man enough to put Pierre Trudeau in his proper place as nothing more than a bad, sad memory.

Oh my  Gawd!! I agree with every word. AAAAHHHH!!