PONDERABLES
Given that the Republicans didn’t achieve their anticipated success, was the mid-term US election the beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
Why is Justin Trudeau trundling off to Cambodia to attend some obscure southeast Asian gathering rather than attending Rembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa? An inherited gene from his father?
THINGS I FIRMLY BELIEVE
Trudeau’s narcissism runs so deep that he’s completely impervious to criticism.
And he’s apologized so often for things he didn’t do (but never for his own missteps) that his apologies have become meaningless.
Our health care system would have a lot more money to spend on patient care if hospitals severely cut back their massively bloated bureaucracies.
As long as there are books to read and crossword puzzles to solve there’s no need to be bored.
Jim Unger’s Herman was the most consistently funny cartoon ever.
THREE MORE TANTALIZING COUNTRY SONG TITLES
You Never Even Call Me By My Name
She Just Loved The Cheatin’ Out Of Me
Pretend I Never Happened
TRUDEAU’S COLOSSAL HYPOCRISY
Justin Trudeau took the Ontario government to task this week for using the “notwithstanding clause” in a labour dispute. Yet he stood silently by during the numerous times the Quebec government has used it during his term, including at least once when it was used for what could reasonably be called the sanctioning of bigotry.
AND HIS APPEARANCE ON CANADA’S DRAG RACE
Even his ardent supporters are probably trying to figure out what Trudeau hopes to gain from appearing on Canada’s Drag Race. Remembering his ridiculous costuming when he and his family were in India, they can at least take some comfort that it seems he’s not going to appear in a dress.
CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S STUNNINGLY STUPID SUGGESTION
If there was an award for making stupid suggestions equivalent to the Darwin Awards, which recognize stupid deaths (such as lighting a match to see how much gas is in a tank), Chrystia Freeland’s tone-deaf suggestion that financially struggling families could reduce their financial burden by cancelling subscriptions to the Disney Channel would be a hands-down winner. She bragged that cancelling her subscription saved her $13.99 per month, prompting one Twitter-wag to comment that if he did this he’d be able to afford a modest house in Toronto in 15,000 years.
Can she, and presumably her government, be so incredibly out of touch with what many Canadian families are facing at the grocery stores and gas pumps that she actually thought this was helpful? Suggesting to her boss that the carbon tax be cancelled would be a far better idea.
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT UNIONS
Because the original concept of unions was to allow workers to share in the profits of the companies they work for, unions have no place in the public sector.
Employers in both the public and private sectors need to take a stand with union leaders by insisting that entry level jobs are not intended to be careers, meaning that any pay increases should be limited to increases in the coast of living.
And a union ponderable: To be fair to all workers, shouldn’t union dues be a percentage of the employees’ earnings, not a flat amount?