Avoiding Reality:

Come October 17, Canadians bent on avoiding reality will be able to add still another tool to their equipment, courtesy of Justin Trudeau. 

Smoking weed and munching on hash brownies will no longer be viewed as substance abuse. Stoners will be able to join young Trudeau in viewing the world through a reality-altering smokescreen.

Climate Question:

That Paris Accord thing appears to be a political construct based on media hype and alarmist theory. Canadian politicians ought to view it with great suspicion, especially since our good trading neighbors to the south remain unconvinced.

Sticking to our half-hearted political commitments on the accord just to earn brownie points with all those drones at the UN would seem less than brilliant if Canadian industry is to remain compatible with US industry. 

There is strong evidence that Donald Trump is unimpressed with that accord. He appears not about ready to hamstring the US market with its implementation. Going along with those commitments in Canada would handicap us with a load of ridiculous emissions taxes based on climate change propaganda.

And it's not just big industry that will be made to pay up. It will hit every living Canadian right in the wallet as the supply sector is forced to adjust prices to cover costs of absolutely everything we need to buy.

The Americans are lucky they have Donald Trump to speak for them. Who, other than Doug Ford, is going to speak for Canadians? 

Childish Games:

NAFTA is being negotiated like a childish game played by the Canadian delegation.

Surely Christia Freeland's unnecessarily opinionated commentary and Justin Trudeau's brave posturing are not conducive to reaching some kind of a working agreement with the Trump team.

Is Trudeau sneaky enough to think that Trump's alleged lack of popularity with the Canadian electorate can guarantee him a few more votes at election time?

Reduced Static:

When all the ballots re: Toronto City Council are counted later this fall, there will be 22 fewer chances of getting severely garbled results on any discussion when they reconvene.

Just think: 22 fewer chances of the topic under discussion being hijacked and derailed by someone probably for no better reason than to posture for constituents.

Programming Children:

Friday's news clip on CTV showing school children protesting government tinkering with their sex curriculum is really scary.

It shows, better than anything else, what the teachers are capable of doing with our children's minds even before they are biologically equipped to think about sex.

Media Bias:

Toronto media burdened with a leftward list to their political postures are trying to award Oscars to the judicial panel that absolved Premier Doug Ford from a perceived massive foul-up in decimating Toronto city council.

What actually happened, was that the tribunal saved the judicial profession in Ontario from their own foul-up, interfering in a democratic procedure that would have done very well without their attentions.

Hollywood North:

The one thing our left-leaning politicians are good at is using the newsmedia to promote their causes.

Make no mistake. That grade-school display in the Ontario legislature on Wednesday had little chance of qualifying as an intellectual pursuit. It was meant solely to make Doug Ford look like a schoolyard bully.

Unfortunately, we have come to expect nothing more substantial than that from the Andrea Horwath gang.