Subject: "TELLING QUOTES from Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau's book,
'COMMON GROUND' ", says
É(eh)PC President/Party Leader
FOREWORD
HIS
RECORD TO DATE
It
tells you pretty much what he's prepared to do for you: it appears NOT MUCH and NOT MORE THAN IS NE-
CESSARY TO GET RE-ELECTED.
Is that THE PRINCIPLED THING TO DO?
MOTIVATION
HIS
MOTIVATION FOR THE BOOK "COMMON GROUND" (Copyright date: 2014) "I wanted to write a book explaining
how I came to be the person I am." (p. 34)
WORKING
HARD
"As
I hope I have made clear throughout this book, ... I am working hard to earn this country's trust." (p. 288)
REFRAIN
"hope
and hard work" (p. 265)"Hope and Hard Work" (p. 267) (The title of Chapter Nine)
"hope and hard work" (p. 268)
"hope and hard work" (p. 269)
"hope and hard work" (p. 307)
WILL
MAKE IT HAPPEN
"...
I am a man who knows how to draw us together to make it happen." (p. 295)
Note: *WHAT* he will make happen,
he doesN'T say? We are left
guessing. (Ha! Ha!)
*HILARIOUS*
ASSERTION
"Because
of his own Brébeuf education, my father had been a fluent Latin speaker from his teenage years and he used it
to navigate the far corners of the world ... ." (p. 60)
WHO ELSE from Brébeuf spoke Latin? His dad couldN'T
have been the only one. (Ha! Ha!)
However, NOT VERY LIKELY though: there have been only
two (2) Vatican priests to ever have claimed to be able to
carry on a conversation in Latin.
THIS HILARIOUS ASSERTION does set THE TONE for his
book. Is he to be TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
AN ASINE,
CONTRADICTORY LINE
This
was HIS TRICK: "My goal for my first year (as MP, member of Parliament) was to figure out a simple trick:
keep my head down while holding my head high."
(p. 144)
THIS PRICELESS LINE, in my view, BECAUSE IT
nicely sets up THE BLAH-BLAH TONE OF THE
BOOK.
But, SERIOUSLY?
He comes off, I think, as YOUR *REGULAR* BLAH-
BLAH MINISTER, but with SUNNY WAYS and
SMILING FACE and A WAVING and TAKING
SELFIES.
LIKE ALL PREVIOUS PRIME MINISTERS, he has
NO PLANS OF SUBSTANCE WITH TIMELINES to
deal with Canada's important issues: LETTING
THINGS SLIDE IS NOT THE WAY TO GO. In
fact, it's IRRESPONSIBLE.
THIS MILLIONAIRE (perhaps MULTIMILLIONAIRE)
GUY, I think, should PICK UP HIS MARBLES and
GO HOME. :D
"Justin Trudeau:
Common Ground"
Harper
Collins Publishers Ltd, 2014, 343 pages.
INTRODUCTION
According to him national unity comes from FINDING THE
COMMON GROUND and making the economy stronger by
BUILDING THE MIDDLE-CLASS.
True?
*NOT* TRUE?
Justin Trudeau (believes like his predecessors) (NO
*NEW* THINKING HERE): "Canada's prosperity de-
pends on our ability to develop our natural resources
and get them to world markets." (p. 251)
CLICHÉ THINKING.
Canada's prosperity is dependent on WEALTH
REDISTRIBUTION (SHARED PROSPERITY),THE ELI-
MINATION OF *UNNECESSARY* GOV'T SPENDING
for A STRONG ECONOMY where everyone can be
productive and being productive can contibute to
making the economy strong ensuring Canada's
prosperity: that's theÉ(eh)PC GAME PLAN.
And like his predecessors, he says: " ... the people who
lead Canada need to be ... generous of spirit toward all
... ." (p. 258)
ANOTHER OVERUSED, CLICHÉ LINE, no?
HIS *ONLY* CONCERN FOR THE MIDDLE-
CLASS *excludes* a lot of Canadians.
This is *NOT* INCLUSIVE POLITICS.
WHY POLITICS?
HIS
MOTIVATION (like that of his predecessors) he says is service: "There was my desire to serve Canada." (p. 253)
SUCH A CLICHÉ LINE that lacks specificity, and hence,
lacks sincerity.
THANK GOD, he's NOT another Hillary or BILL CLINTON
taking advantage of THE PUBLIC PURSE and all that it
has to offer: THAT'S A RELIEF. (HA! Ha!)
"I believed Canada needed new leadership and Canadians
a new plan." (p. 270)
WHAT!
A PLAN?
WHAT PLAN?
Have we seen ANY PLAN as of yet?
"I am running because I believe this country wants and
needs new leadership." (p. 304)
What have we "substantially" (not stylistically) seen in
the way of NEW LEADERSHIP so far?
"When was the last time you had a leader you actually
trusted?" (p. 305)
He can't be trusted if it' ALL GOING TO BE SAME OLD
SAME OLD.
"... a leader who will 'begin, spend, and end every day'
thinking about how to make this country better ... ."
(p. 305)
DIRECTION
"...
Mr. Harper's government was taking Canada in the wrong direction ... ." (p. 254)
ALRIGHT.
However, IN WHAT DIRECTION is *he* taking Canada?
Did he ever say?
Does he know?
(OR is letting THE BACKROOM BOYS – THE JEAN
COUTU GANG OF *multimillionaire* QUEBEC LIBE-
RALS - *multimillionaires* like himself, THE GOLDEN
BOY - decide that for him on an AD HOC BASIS gi-
ven THE PREVAILING WINDS of the day?)
By the way, he promised to TAX THE RICH MORE,
didN'T he?
Has he?
It appears he's looking after himself+*HIS* RICH
LIBERAL FRIENDS.
Is this about PUBLIC SERVICE or SELF SERVICE?
What do you think?
Hint: in Canada, historically, PUBLIC SERVICE
has ALWAYS been about SELF SERVICE,
LAPPING IT UP at THE PUBLIC TROUGH.
SLURP! SLURP!
RICH
KID
"I
had ... traveled enough to hang out with the types who skied in Europe." (p. 73)
AVERAGE
"
... my erratic grades." (p. 81) "... my average academic performance at Brébeuf."
(p. 79)
THE
PROMISE
Justin
Trudeau promised us "a new kind of politics. One that sought to bring people together to build
on common ground ... ." (p. 265)
He said: "My friends, we will do better." (p. 304)
BETTER?
He claims his Liberal Party is "building a better
country" (p. 306)
He says: "I can bring new forces to bear on old
problems." (p. 304)
NEW FORCES? Is he keeping them in the closet
for now? (Ha! Ha!)
"Canada needs a better government, not just a
different government." (p. 262)
"the right plan, and the right people to implement
it, in the right way." (p. 274)
WHEN are we going to get THIS *NEW* KIND OF
POLITICS he promised?
$$$
"begin
to professionalize fundraising" (p. 238)"The supporters ... would ... create a broad base
for raising money ... ." (p. 240)#0000FF
(We now know about his $1,500 Liberal
Party fundraising dinners: http://www.theglobe
andmail.com/news/politics/trudeau)
WHAT's the #1 preoccupation of the
Liberals?
$$$?
THE
LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA
"a
party of values and ideas" (p. 227)"a better kind of liberal political movement"
(p. 243)
"We needed to remind the voters of the values
and philosophy behind Liberal Red." (p. 177)
Please, REMIND ME. (Ha! Ha!)
With "the fall-out of the Gomery Commission ...
the party's basic integrity was called ... into
question." (p. 238)
"... the party had become too self-centred and
concerned with its own success ... . (p. 261)
"We needed a new mission, new ideas, and
new people." (p. 270)
NEW?
"... too many Canadians don't know what the
Liberal Party stands for."(p. 280)
(Do you?) (Ha! Ha!)
PROSPERITY
"...
Canada's prosperity depends upon our ability to develop our natural resources and get them to
world markets." (p. 251)
SAID TIME AND AGAIN by the prime ministers of
Canada: NO NEW THINKING here.
POOR
RIDING
According
to the 2006 census, Justin Trudeau's riding of Papineau has the lowest average family
income in Canada.
"In Papineau I represent too many parents who
are so poor they routinely send their children to
school without breakfast." (p. 202)
"Papineau ... taught me a lot about the problem
of income and wealth inequality in Western so-
ciety," (p. 202)
"I felt I had gotten to know the people of this ri-
ding and their concerns." (p. 185)
"I heard about the economic challenges that
many ... faced ... . Their debts were growing
but their incomes weren't. Many ... emerging
from that grocery store could barely afford
the food to feed their families." (p. 179)
So WHAT?
WHAT has he DONE about that?
NOTHING?
COMMON
GROUND
"...
the Liberal Party ... since Wilfred Laurier has tried to focus on building common ground a-
mong people." (p. 238)
"When we feel better off by sharing common
ground, we seek it out, build on it, and ex-
pand it for others." (p. 272)
"... to find common ground. That is how we have
worked toward a just and prosperous country."
(p. 284)
"I tried to build common ground around common
values." (p. 188)
"... a new kind of politics. One that sought to bring
people together to build on common ground ... ."
(p. 265)
"We have problems ... . And solve them we will ...
by building on common ground." (p. 288)
FINDING COMMON GROUND does *NOT* put food
in the EMPTY BELLIES of those suffering FOOD
INSECURITY - the majority of whom are our indi-
genous peoples.
MIDDLE-CLASS
AGENDA
"...
our ... middle-class is Canada's centre of gravity" (p. 330)
"I say this to the ... middle-class ... : under my lea-
dership, the purpose of the Liberal Party of Cana-
da will be you." (p. 323)
"The hallmark of ... my leadership would be a plan
for economic growth that works for middle-class
Canadians." (p. 270)
"growth that works for the middle-class" (p. 284)
"Our ... economic objective will be prosperity for
the middle-class and those .... who are working
hard to join it." (p. 310)
"We've focused on the big issues like the pros-
perity of the middle-class ... ." (p. 312)
"Helping the middle-class make ends meet."
(p. 321)
"... the key to growth, to opportunity, to progress,
is a thriving middle-class." (p. 301)
"I said in my speech 'it is the middle-class, not
the political class, that units the country.' "
(p. 271)
"It is the middle-class that makes this country
great." (p. 302)
THE BEST THING you can do for the economy
is provide A LIVING WAGE [$20 an hour mini-
mum wage with theÉ(eh)PC] and A GUARAN-
TEED INCOME which theÉ(eh)PC offers.
THE
MAJOR CHALLENGES
CHALLENGES are:
1. stalled middle-class incomes
2. climate change
3. the erosion of our democracy
4. getting our natural resources
to global markets (p. 254)
THE CHALLENGE is to REDO Gov't so that
it is 100% financially transparent, 50% SMAL-
LER so it can give back MUCH MORE to Ca-
nadians so they can be as productive as they
want to be that's what theÉ(eh)PC intends
to do.
FIRST PEOPLES
"Your
place is not on the margins. It is at the very heart of who we are ... " (p. 300)
"I have spent too much time in too many re-
mote reserve communities to be anything but
clear-eyed about the challenges many First
Nations, Métis, and Inuit people face." (p. 235)
"... we have failed to achieve a respectful,
functioning relationship with First Nations."
(p. 235)
"The predicament of First Nations, and our
willingness as non-Aboriginals to abide the
abject poverty and injustice that affect so
many, is a great moral stain on Canada."
(p. 235)
They suffer from bad housing, contaminated
water, sporadic electricity, bad health and
bad education.
Until now, WHAT has he done to improve
THEIR 3rd WORLD LIVING CONDITIONS?
"Canadians share deep values ... . Optimi-
sm. Openness. Compassion. Service to
community. Generosity of spirit."
(pp. 322-323)
NEVER TOWARDS OUR INDIGENOUS
FIRST PEOPLES whose INHUMAN LI-
VING CONDITIONS demean and deni-
grate them.
TheÉ(eh)PC intends to make them
MODEL COMMUNITIES.
HIS
CORRESPONDENCE, WHO DOES IT?
He
says: "I took so seriously the responsibility of responding to correspondence sent to my
office ... ." (p. 218)
THEN, he adds, he recruited "volunteers ...
young people, mostly students, who would
each come in for a few hours a week and
help respond to the piles of letters, in ex-
change for work experience in a parliamen-
tary setting ... ." (p. 219)
SO, does he do his own correspondence or
do young, student volunteers do it?
Youth,
COUNT?
He
claims he will be "fighting for youth in Canada" (p. 224) because of his "resolve
to speak loudly and clearly for young
people across the country." (p. 224)
He even appointed himself as the Minister
for Youth.
As much as he says he cares about youth,
he seems to use them as AN UNTAPPED
WORKFORCE TO BE *EXPLOITED* FOR
FREE which he has been doing.
He even used *UNPAID* University of To-
ronto interns at his Leadership Campaign
Office on John Street in Toronto.
THE GUYS IS RICH: HE HAD THE $$$
TO PAY THEM.
That's NOT abuse?
SURE!
TheÉ(eh)PC is 100% *OPPOSED* to the
use of UNPAID INTERNS.
VOLUNTEERISM
"Starting
with a massive volunteer recruitment campaign, we set in motion ... the largest ef-
fort to engage people in politics. We took great
pride ... that our campaigned was fuelled by
(12,000) volunteers." (p. 284)
"... we built a countrywide network of volunteers
... working ... to reconnect our party ... ." (p. 287)
"... we can convince young Canadians that ser-
ving this great country is its own reward." (p. 271)
"I ... wanted ... a study ... on volunteerism and
how the government might encourage it through
a framework for a national youth service." (p. 223)
"... if young people came up to me and said they
were interested in politics, I'd tell them they were
welcome to come into my office and help out."
(p. 219)
"... young volunteers stuffing envelopes or writing
on a computer, ... ." (p. 219)
"Others will apply their civic-mindedness through
volunteer work." (p. 241)
"Lunch was usually shared with volunteers in the
campaign office ... ." (p. 206)
(All TOP 3 POLITICAL PARTIES have $80+ million
going into an election.)
GIVEN THEIR ABILITY TO PAY, couldN'T they
pay their campaign staff?
SURE!
Where's THEIR SOCIAL CONSCIENCE?
IF THEY CARED, THEY WOULD.
But they DON'T!
*CROOKED* FASCIST Police State
GANGSTERISM
BRIBES
FROM LOBBYISTS+KICKBACKS from EVERY Gov't contract, loan+FREE
money (CORPORATE WELFARE) given
to CORPORATIONS make our politicians
BAD GUYS+their political party, A GANG-
STER ORGANIZATION?
Yep!
Do you AGREE?
TheÉ(eh)PC
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Kenneth Selin (say'leen)
~~~
B.A.(Psychology), B.A.(Spanish), B.Admin.,
B.Comm.(Honours), B.A.(Italian) magna cum laude
~~~
É(eh)PC
President/Party Leader
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