Ottawa boasts of nation-building while debt rises, jobs vanish, and contradictions multiply.
The Liberal Party of Canada is ecstatic. They’ve finally caught the golden ring on the merry-go-round. There were three byelections in Canada on April 13, and the Liberal Party won all three of them, which now gives them a majority government. To be clear, they have been inching their way in this direction for almost a year now, since they won a minority government in the last federal election. They have been doing this by persuading Conservative MPs to cross the floor. The last such crossing was just a few days ago on April 8, when Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu did the treacherous little dance. She was the fourth Conservative MP to do so since the general election. In the Liberal Party press release, she justified her move by calling it an “opportunity … [to] build the nation at speeds never seen before.” That’s a current Liberal talking point, but it don’t mean a thing.
