Not Very Funny:

 Our PM's attempt to use the emergency measures regulations against the truck brigades has made Parliament Hill an international joke.

Where's the Canada that used to function as an arbiter in international disputes?

While our young PM is shown daily lecturing members of the the international community on how they ought to behave, the evidence shows that he cannot successfully handle Canada's own internal differences.

If that's the kind of advice he is getting from his own caucus, it is easy to imagine that the enthusiasm has fled and it's time for change.

That would not necessarily be to the winning partys' advantage. Ejection of the Liberals from Parliament Hill would leave the winners the task of correcting the Covid panic mess they created. 

Look out, Russia:

 Our left-leaning state media misses no opportunity to feature our handsome young PM delivering powerful threats to Russia's Vladimir Putin on his ongoing bout with Ukraine.

Far from cringing in abject terror, Putin seems to hardly notice while he goes about thumbing his nose at NATO.

There was a time during the last century when Canada was able to bat above its size and weight in international disputes. 

That is no longer the case. It is doubtful that following several Trudeau administrations, there is enough credibility left to join in anything much more than a back alley punch-up.

Of course, the ulterior motive for the mainstream media lectures is probably meant to appeal to about 1.3 million Canadians that still identify as being of Ukrainian origin.

Can that be taken as evidence that we're being conditioned for still another ridiculous federal election?

Had Enough?

More than anything else, the reception of the trucking transport brigade all across the land can be taken as an indicator that Canadians have had enough restrictions.

There is little evidence that the restrictions are working.

There is lots of evidence that they are destroying lives and livelihoods.

There is also enough evidence that they are destroying people's sanity at an unprecedented rate: as many as four suicides to every Covid casualty in some communities, according to  reports.

We're not getting those reports from the medical industry, nor from the mainstream news accounts.

The mainstream media is feeding viewers large-numerical statistics which seem out-of-whack with what's going on. We feel uncertain if the medical industry is skewing those numbers by combining covid with all deaths just to keep the panic going. We have to take their word for it because we are not sure who is generating or manipulating the numbers for effect.

There is strong suspicion that the Covid panic will thrive as long as the various unions and suppliers still feel there is something they have failed to exploit.

Our busy PM, of course, has ducked the truckers just the way he ducked that silly Truth and Reconciliation holiday a few weeks ago. 

Poor Planning::

 Whoever organized that truckers' protest on Parliament Hill didn't quite think it through.

They should have cut off all deliveries to Ottawa. About three days without food, supplies, garbage pickup and toilet paper would have got the top politicians out of hiding real quick.

Vaxx Faxx?

Favorite Interviewer Steve Paikin usually has good, well-managed discussions going. Lately it's been Covid.

Whether vaxx holdouts should be forced to get poked drew some strong opinions. What it showed more than anything else is that the line between a democratic society and an intolerant one is thin.

Two of his guests were inclined to let the individual decide. The other two exhibited tendencies that haven't been seen since the 1940s in occupied Europe. 

One claim was that hospitals were plugged with unvaccinated people because of Covid. Another claim was that the unvaxxed were mostly uneducated foreigners clinging to religious restrictions. 

The fact that a significant percentage of Covid patients are fully vaccinated did not come up. If it did, I missed it.

Omicron Key?

Question: Does the Omicron variant increase the natural resistance to Covid in the people it infects?

Wouldn't it be interesting if it made its hosts immune to further infection? 

Will the medical research community pursue any valid statistical evidence on this question?

Past plagues ended abruptly with scant medical intervention. Maybe Omicron is the key to this one..

On de fence:

 Devilishly clevah of our PM to appoint a lawyer with zero military experience to the top military post. She replaces a guy who's been serving the country through many tough campaigns.

All of us ought to be confident now that if someone should threaten Canada, we will be safe in the arms of the judiciary. Our post-national government will simply throw itself upon the mercy of the judicial types at the United Nations.

Why didn't someone think of this before WWII? Had Mackenzie King been on the ball, he could have sicked his legal beagles on Adolf Hitler and proceeded to sue the ass off that guy.

Think how much ammunition we could have saved..