Mark Carney-Justin Trudeau Liberal party is once again resorting to their familiar

2025-04-01 13:42

With another federal election on the horizon, the Mark Carney-Justin Trudeau Liberal party is once again resorting to their familiar strategy, which was famously used by legendary campaign organizer Sen. Keith Davey in the 1980 election: 'Neglect the West, focus on the rest.' This divisive tactic, employed by the Liberals 45 years ago for political advantage, is still in play today, threatening the unity of our country.

In the 1980 election, the Liberals overcame the minority Progressive Conservative government led by Joe Clark. With a Liberal majority, Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's father, enforced the controversial national energy program. This policy is still deeply resented in Alberta because, as then-Progressive Conservative premier Peter Lougheed put it, it intruded on provincial rights, robbed Alberta of oil revenue, and led to significant job losses and business failures. Does this sound familiar? The Liberals have a long history of sidelining Alberta and Saskatchewan. This was made painfully clear in 2023 when Gudie Hutchings, the Liberal minister for rural economic development, made a revealing comment that highlighted the party's true stance.

She suggested that if the Prairies wanted special carbon tax exemptions akin to the three-year reprieve granted to Atlantic Canada for home heating fuel, they should elect more Liberal MPs. While this exemption technically applied across Canada, it specifically benefited home heating oil, predominantly used in Atlantic Canada, excluding natural gas users in other regions from the tax holiday. The message was unmistakable: the Trudeau government was penalizing the West for not voting in Liberal representatives. Other notable instances during Trudeau's leadership include a barrage of anti-energy policies aimed at Canada's oil and gas sector, vital to the economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The appointment of former Greenpeace activist Steven Guilbeault as Minister of Environment only added insult to injury for Western Canadians. These actions are not random; they are strategically crafted to boost Liberal support in Eastern Canada by portraying the Carney-Trudeau group as champions of Canadian unity against the so-called rogue United Conservative Party in Alberta. This pattern is consistent. During the 2019 election, Trudeau, while campaigning in Montreal, urged Quebecers to 'stand up and fight against' then-Alberta premier Jason Kenney, characterizing him as unCanadian on various issues, including climate change, gun control, and poverty. In contrast, Trudeau proclaimed: 'We've shown that we, as a Quebec team, consistently stand up for both Quebec and Canadian values,' a divisive statement that pits one region against another. In 2010, while Harper was PM, Trudeau openly criticized Alberta's influence on Canada's socio-political agenda, claiming it was detrimental. When asked if Canada would be better off with Quebecers in charge, he affirmed, 'I'm a Liberal, so of course, I believe so. The country truly belongs to us.' Two years later, he remarked that if he ever felt that Harper's views as PM represented most Canadians, he would consider campaigning for Quebec's separation. However, it's not just Trudeau. In the 2000 election, then-Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien also derided Albertans, suggesting they were 'different' from Eastern Canadians based on their electoral choices. 'I prefer to engage with people from the East,' Chretien said, emphasizing his preference while joking and then admitting his seriousness about the need for 'tough love' for the West.
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