Trudeau's "new politics" looks like the same old slime

So how are things looking for PM Sunny Daze’ sunny ways, my friends?

Me and the Farm Manager spent five hours in the car today, to take in Horst Packull’s funeral. We had the state broadcaster on most of the way. We learned that Canada is marshalling some top scientists to explain to the Chinese that there’s really nothing wrong with our canola or our soybeans.

Well, that’s nice, but I think most Canadians are probably smart enough to get that our problems in the China market have nothing to do with canola or soybeans, so why bother trotting out such a misleading story? China’s ban on Canadian soy product and canola have nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics.

Indeed, most Canadians fully understand that our current difficulties stem from our arrest, at Uncle Sam’s behest, of Meng Wanzhou. Her crime? The company she works for has allegedly violated US sanctions against Iran.

To consider that a crime, one has buy in to the argument that the US has a right to dictate to other nations, allegedly sovereign states, who they can and cannot do business with. These Iran sanctions do not originate with the UN or any other international body.

You can’t do business with Iran because Uncle Sam says so.

Period.

PM Fluffy and his government obviously buy in.

But here’s the thing. Anyone with a first year poly-sci grasp of geopolitics could pay lip service to the US sanctions while still avoiding a showdown with China. After receiving the arrest request from Washington, Canada had any number of options in terms of quietly signalling Huawei that travel plans had best take this contingency into consideration. That’s what would have happened under Harper, or Chretien, or Mulroney.

That’s just big-boy politics.

Trudeau came to office promising a whole new way of doing politics.  And his government has certainly taken virtue-signalling to new heights. He’s got a “feminist” government, don’t you know! And nosiree, we won’t be kow-towing to Mr. Trump! In fact, we welcome the world’s huddled masses even while the Orange Ogre is banning Muslims!

The reasons Canadians are in jail in China, and our agriculture products are no longer welcome there, is because the Chinese are calling Trudeau’s virtue-signalling bullshit.

They’re telling us that kow-towing to Mr. Trump has a cost.

Who knew?

Obviously, neither Justin nor his completely in-over-her-head Minister of Foreign Affairs could see this coming. We haven’t even had an ambassador in China since January, because the highly respected John McCallum had to be fired, because he did see it coming. The decision to fire McCallum was a victory of virtue-signalling over common sense.

Thanks to the SNC scandal, we’ve recently been treated to a peek behind the scenes in the Sunny Ways government, and it ain’t pretty. Seems the government that strictly observes the “rule of law” on the Huawei file has no problems elbowing the rule of law aside to do some bare-knuckle politicking on behalf of SNC.

Seems the “feminist” PM expects his female cabinet ministers to obey orders.

Seems the Prime Minister of Native Reconciliation doesn’t have any qualms about putting the boots to a Native woman who calls him on his shilling for a corporate scofflaw.

Seems to me that politics in the age of PM Sunny Daze are as slimy as they’ve ever been.