In the wake of Chrystia Freeland’s explosive departure from the Liberal cabinet, Martin Lukacs and El Jones discuss the establishment media’s infatuation with Ottawa’s palace intrigue and what the future for a hobbled Trudeau government might look like.
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The problem is not Trudeau but he has been a dismal failure – wonderful sounding promises but pathetic delivery. The problem is the economy. 20% of Canadians own 75% of ALL the wealth in the country. 50% own 1.2%. Canada’s billionaires increased their wealth by 51% during the pandemic. There is a housing crisis because the 50% increasingly cannot afford rents or buying a home. Food, medicines, energy, education are less affordable because increasingly 50% or more Canadians cannot afford them. But the pundits can and the politicians can. and the 20% can. Can we begin to build a better economy? Yes. See: https://youtu.be/MXtxAyfd554 I spent over a decade taking graduate students to visit more successful economies.
New to your website due to my poor view of mainstream media these days, I was hopeful. But listening to ‘Who’s Afraid of… Freeland’ I was disappointed by the hubris of the speakers: i.e. ‘We handily addressed those (questions on the PM’s future).’ Handily? In fact, not. No mention of other possible Lib PMs, only Freeland… AND both made constant definitive statements of a ‘landslide’ PC win next election. A landslide?? For certain? Finally we get: The NDP support of the Liberals was a ‘lethal mistake … for just some small hand in government’ … Good grief. Such intellect on display. Able to reduce such complex interactions into simple black & white truisms. Or so it seems to me… Take a position sometimes, sure, but be sure you have enough supporting evidence. And that was very much lacking in regard to my examples.
Sadly yours, A former journalist.