You will have to forgive me for being in the minority. The Leader-Post released a story on Monday that says if the federal election were to be held again, the Liberals would have even more support than what they did in October. This means their honeymoon, not only, isn’t over with the Canadian public, but their momentum is continuing to grow. Maybe I’m a tough crowd, but each and every time I see our Prime Minister on television delivering a speech or answering a question, the first word that I think of is phoney. Disingenuous is next. The smirks wreak of someone who sees himself as superior to whoever he is talking to and yet his constant stuttering when pressed on something he hasn’t prepared himself to answer make me think he really isn’t all that intelligent. It’s not a speech problem. I’ve seen him talk stutter free. Yet, Canadians love him and his party. Canadians feel having a popular profile and standing up for special interests are more important than things like the economy and fiscal management. To me, it seems like Canadians would love to have a Kardashian or a Jenner as Prime Minister. Trudeau is a lot closer to that than he is to what Jean Chrétien was when he was Liberal leader and the Prime Minister of Canada.
I wonder if the Trudeau family will ever sign up for a reality show on CBC, which seems to be his massive public relations/marketing engine anyway. I have to admit that while I find reality tv to be, incredibly, silly; I may actually tune in to The Trudeaus. I mean since Sophie is overwhelmed and needs more help, I’d like to see her sweating it out behind a computer answering the requests she gets for appearances and still finding time to make breakfast for the three kids, hubby, and two nannies. I’m not a woman, so I’m not qualified to offer much of an opinion on this ridiculous request she has that she needs more staff; but I’m going to suggest that it’s impossible to please everyone. Learn to say ‘no’. Wayne Gretzky, surely, didn’t sign every single autograph request. He must’ve said ‘no’ at some point. People still love him. So, Sophie can say ‘no’ every once in a while and stay home and go through her Betty Crocker book and whip something up. This is not to say the woman doesn’t work hard. I have no idea whether she does or not, but the reality is that we all find balance between work and home. Men and women.
One argument Liberal people like to make with me is that they will start a sentence with, “Well Harper did this or Harper did that.” In the Sophie case, the common rebuttal is, “Well Mila Mulroney did it.” So, if Mila Mulroney did it does that make it right? If Stephen Harper did something really bad but Justin Trudeau does something that is bad, but not as bad as Harper, does that make it okay? Apparently, it does.
I have not really offered much of an opinion on Trudeau going to Fort McMurray to see the destructive forest fire. Many people have made this political. I choose not to, however, I think it’s appalling to see people posting on social media that the citizens of Fort McMurray somehow deserved this fire. The very people who tow the straightest politically correct line are the first ones to jump off and say something that is, beyond, offensive and then tag it with, “I know this isn’t politically correct, but...’
The biggest sports news from the weekend should have been the Toronto Raptors advancing to the NBA semi-finals, but it’s the punch Jose Bautista received from Roughned Odor of the Texas Rangers instead. To set it up, Bautista hits a clutch homer last Fall and does a bat flip (which in traditional baseball circles is a no no). The Rangers have long memories and during Bautista’s last at bat against Texas this season, a minor league reliever throws at him and hits him on the elbow pad. The next batter grounds to third and a double play is attempted with Bautista sliding with intent to hurt Odor at second. Bautista jumps up and Odor decks him in the jaw. This isn’t about Odor being mad about the slide. This is about a man (Bautista) being hated by the other team to the point that if someone had the slightest reason to pop him one, that’s what was going to happen. There is plenty of blame here. While I don’t have a problem with the bat flip, Bautista has to know ball players have long memories. He had it coming. Whether it was his first at bat against Texas or his last one. It was coming. Once he was hit, I feel he should have taken the high road the rest of the way. The punch to the face was, simply, done because Odor doesn’t like him. The slide had nothing to do with it. You can’t just walk up to a guy you don’t like and smoke him one, but if he antagonizes you a little bit and you have a choice whether to stand there and argue or else throw a right hook, there’s a pretty good chance if I already harbour some resentment to the person, I’m going to pop him.
Nice person mentions: Tyler Slowski, Lindsay Morrison, Erica Plaquin, Jillian Kriger, and Kelly Burback.
