Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Liberal braintrusts from Ontario and Québec work well with Trudeau

Now that America has shown its colours for another couple years, Democratic presidency and majority Senate with a Republican majority House, we move back to the federal and provincial scene here in Canada. Being stuck in the middle with cabinet ministers Kathleen Wynne, who defeated former Ontario Tory leader John Tory in Don Valley West, and former Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray who now provincially represents Toronto Centre where Bob Rae does federally, doing their best post Halloween impressions of Lyn Mcleod and Gerard Kennedy respectively, we look up to Ottawa to see what is more interestingly going on elsewhere. Where else could we see the unification of former chief of staff for the Premier of Québec Jean Charest, Daniel Gagnier, and former principal secretary for the Premier of Ontario Dalton Mcguinty, Gerald Butts, in the federal leadership campaign of Justin Trudeau to lead the Liberals and begin bringing back the long lost grand old Canada?

This superpowerful meeting of the minds by majority government braintrusts from these twin towers of the Canadian political, economic and societal identity, also known collectively as the elite Laurentian consensus, have united behind Trudeau to advise, develop and implement policy and real principles Justin still does not have over his many platitudes and great personality.

Both Gagnier and Butts saved provincial governments in Canada, both Lower and Upper, using different political gifts, gimmicks, gadgets, gizmos and games, protecting the vision of a tight knit high crust group of the who is who of the nation along the St. Lawrence watershed and the belief that it is the centre of power from sea to sea. Obviously, Ontario and Québec are strengthening up together to take back the Liberal brand as theirs, along with the Atlantic East, leaving Alberta and the Pacific West to recalculate back to the Tories through Stephen Harper and the remaining Reform rump, or what is believed to still be as such.  The demographically loaded question now is does the Mountain, Prairies and even the whole Atlantic move towards those typical geopolitical centres of Calgary, Toronto and Montréal, or do fundamental political shifts, like Québec youthful dallance with the néo démocrates over their former love bloquistes or Ontario immigrants looking to the Tories as newcomers too in keeping their conservative values and faith over the more liberal Grits, continue to change the political fabric and landscape into a new Canada?