Saturday 20 March 2021

How O'Toole Saves The Day On Climate Change.

Erin's convention speech was a good start but it was in fact only a beginning -- in reality, baby steps. This convention made history what with it being packed at the association level with special-interest delegates. You know special interests, those people who have a higher agenda that they fight for and who quite frankly, mostly couldn't care less if the CPC wins power. All they're really about is controlling the party and pushing their agenda forward come hell or high water. 

And who's fault is that? First and foremost, it's the responsibility of regional and provincial caucus lieutenants who are supposed to have a droit de regard on what members are up to in their province or territory. Next comes the paid regional party organizers whose job it is to make damned sure that the party reflects in each riding the aspirations and will of the leader on the vital issues affecting Canadians and their country. In short, this is an epic fail, period.

Those of us who happen to be members but are largely on the outside of the party and caucus could see this doozy coming from a mile away. The convention was hijacked before it even began and now, heads must roll for that.

That means that the leader has to lay down the law and repeatedly so on the issue of climate change and any other absolute nonsense resolutions that were adopted by the membership. Everyone who happens to be sentient with even a modicum of brains knows that climate change is, at the very least, an existential issue for Canada and this planet as a whole.

I know it. O'Toole knows it. Caucus largely knows it. And the party bloody well better know it, otherwise we can forget winning the next election. So Erin, now you get the unpleasant task of coming down on the membership and leaving no daylight between your position and that of a future O'Toole led government. These type of resolutions must be immediately denounced and repudiated.

It's high time and long overdue for our party to get real and thoroughly rid itself of climate change deniers and other dinosaurs who push special agendas even ahead of this planet and country's best interest and incredibly so, those of their own party, that is the only realistic alterative to a Trudeau-led Liberal government. 

Like I said Erin, leadership isn't always nice and comfortable. Sometimes a leader has to be absolutely ruthless and show no mercy. And that time is now with O'Toole knowing that he's got to get an effective handle on this and fast. Otherwise, we'll play right into Justin Trudeau's hands and his fawning supplicants in the media. That would mean game over, even before we get to the polls. So, my message is simple: Erin, lower that hammer down hard and be quick about it.

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