'Fortress Toronto' falls, and not a moment too soon
Revenge is a dish best served "cold, cruel, and small."
Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell?
I was at the grand old age of one, and more than likely sh*tting the bed in Midtown Toronto in a similar fashion as the Trudeau Liberals late last night.
The last time the Tories won in Toronto-St. Paul’s, the very nerve centre of limousine liberalism in Canada, that infamous East-West partition, home to some of history’s great speeches, was still standing.
That we’re finally here, in the strangeness of a moment wherein the Liberals just took one on the chin in one of the last neighbourhoods built to withstand much of their failing status quo, should be of no real surprise.
Much to the pretend consternation of professional lunatics, the great migration to the far-left, the courting of louder, angrier diasporic grievance groups, the apparent legalization of crime and disorder, the attempt to make Canadian residency and citizenship some meaningless door prize, and one tax hike too many have finally broken the camel’s back. (And it’s no small achievement to have broken the Forest Hill mom vote right along with it.)
For the riding’s middle-class-to-ungodly-wealthy denizens, there are only so many times their cars could be stolen, their kids shepherded to Hebrew school under the need for armed guard, and there are spiritual limits to having to watch as their oldest moves back home after college after failing to land a job as corporations selfishly dine out on wage suppression and anything-but-temporary foreign workers at the request of government.
And what were these dyed-in-the-wool Liberals from not eight years ago given for their troubles? These ordinary families who haven’t changed, but who have felt the shove from their once-beloved party and public institutions? They were rewarded for their loyalty by having to sit through Chrystia Freeland at her worst, in full Condescending Kindergarten Teacher Mode, as she plagiarized Thomas Hobbes at a stump speech dressed up as a press conference to avoid running afoul of Elections Canada.
With polls still open yesterday, Freeland castigated a supermajority of Canadians, claiming resistance to our slow, torturous exit from the Developed World by design, under seven years of a growth-free economy, was “cold, cruel, and small.”