EDITORIAL: Trudeau can’t heal divisions he created

Published Oct 14, 2024  •  Last updated 6 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during question period, Wednesday, September 25, 2024 in Ottawa. Photo by Adrian Wyld

Plagued by internal divisions and obsessed with its immediate survival, the Trudeau government is incapable of correcting the enormous societal divisions it created, emerging from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bizarre boast in 2015 that Canada would become the world’s “first post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream.”

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Almost a decade later, Canadians are experiencing the bitter fruit of that naive post-election declaration by Trudeau, made to New York Times Magazine, in the heady days of his victory following the 2015 election that took the Liberals from third place to a majority government in the House of Commons.

Today, the Trudeau/Liberal claim that Canada is among the most welcoming and accepting multicultural countries on earth — if not the most welcoming — lies in ruins as Canadians now understand what a “post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream” looks like.

A part of what it has meant is the worst explosion of antisemitism in Canada since the 1930s in the wake of the year-long Israel-Hamas war set off by Hamas’ murderous terrorist rampage on Israeli civilians, plus an increase in hate crimes against Muslims, as well as hate-filled marchers now regularly pouring into our streets, who despise our flag, country and way of life.

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Years of government-mandated “diversity, equity and inclusion programs” to — we were told — combat hatred of this type, made things worse as many ideologically driven spreaders of DEI, who view all of humanity as being either “oppressors” or “oppressed”, decreed that Jews were part of the oppressor class, even as this tiny minority in Canada (less than 1% of the population) were being targeted for unprecedented levels of hate crime, according to many police forces.

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All this while the Trudeau government ignored warnings from its experts that its policy of sudden, massive hikes to Canada’s immigration levels would worsen a pre-existing crisis of affordability across the country and put added pressures on Canada’s beleaguered health care system, made worse by the fact millions of Canadians can’t find a family doctor.

The record clearly shows the Trudeau government cannot save us from the societal divisions its policies have helped to generate.

That work will be up to the rest of us and a new federal government once the current one is replaced.

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