Sunday, September 09, 2012

Justin times another Trudeaumania for the Liberals this spring

Just before Woodstock and just after Confederation, each and every Canadian felt the Baby Boom good vibrations of Trudeaumania, a time of peace, love and misunderstanding. The reason misunderstanding was felt alround, despite those in the Dominion who just held their Centennial happily which celebrated one hundred years together and yet another more in Ottawa abroad, is because just across the Ottawa River, just beyond Hull, Gatineau and the Outaouais or National Capital Region buffer, was a very unhappy Québec. La belle province started getting prepartum depression, which then was furthered by René Lévesque and later the Parti Québécois, something newly minted Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau prescribed the 1982 Canadian Charter Constitution, for what ailed them in response to the 1980 Québec référendum sur la souveraineté association.

Now the good Member of Parliament for Papineau and model critic for amateur sport, post secondary education, and youth, Pierre's son Justin, fresh off a second round technical knock out boxing match victory over Conservative Senator Algonquin Patrick Brazeau late March, this other Trudeau also has that iron taste of fight in his mouth. In the party of giants past, Justin fits in just right, using his savvy teaching style and social media skills to bring the party forward into the early decades of this our twentieth first century. Look for a return of the Liberals, replacing the weaker New Democrats on the constitutional reform file, with a return to between 55% at 60 seats to around 70% at 75 seats of 78 as Trudeau stands up for Canada.

Promising to gain more provincial decentralization, jurisdiction and powers from the powers that be in Ottawa, as one thing New Democrat Bob Rae, Tory Mike Harris and Liberal Dalton Mcguinty with his "Fairness for Ontario" all have in common, is one thing premier elect designate Pauline Marois and her Parti Québécois are free to fight with Ottawa over. But once again their promise to wait for winning condition to exist, in order to hold another round of referenda, is the equivalent of political terrorism, if not economic, constititionally, and especially for those to the East, territorially. If Pauline, in the spirit of René, is looking across the canvas at Justine, in the guise of Pierre, for one more round pour le Québec, then expect our 1982 Canadian Charter Constitution and the British North America Constitution Act 1867 to be defended and a more citizen initiated and better democratic reformed constitutional document by 2020, unlike 1987 Meech Lake or 1992 Charlottetown Accords, all for Canada.