'Nation-defining questions,' or something like them

Right on cue and all at once, the Liberal media makes a comeback.

“Go for Brucie. Yes, I read that poll where 72% of Canadians are giving up on ever owning a home. No, we’re all writing about a meme flag. I agree, our self-loathing Rosedale audience needs to know this is the most important issue out there.”

It was about three o’clock in the afternoon, late April, with the sun not shining and the threat of cold rain hanging in the air above mediocre professionals who betrayed your confidence during a winter of protests (and in most major moments hitherto), when a few stories went out that lacked substance, but not colour.

Red, in particular.

The next Prime Minister of Canada had stopped by the road at a protest in Atlantic Canada. In a moment that perhaps could have been ‘advance teamed’ better, but for which Poilievre is somewhat known for, the leader in wait erred on the side of speaking to the common man, however rough around the edges.

On the interior door of a camper he poked his head into while on an informal guided tour, a meme flag had been scribbled. It belonged to a pseudo-right-wing shit-posting outfit known as ‘Diagolon.’ The group had previously made waves among dozens (!) of professional class adults looking for leverage in Canada’s ‘disinformation’ and censorship hustle.

From there, the trap was set — if one only sees life through black and white, and abides solely by the principles of guilt by association.

Interestingly enough, in the tempest-in-a-teapot response that has since followed, the same reporters who spread false reports of Freedom Convoy arson and assaults that happened to friends of friends of friends of theirs, have yet to be as pre-judicial on matters of the Hamas endorsement letter for Justin Trudeau, or the decades-long infiltration of the CCP into Canada’s election apparatus and even our bio-labs.

Quickly, Pierre was accused of “courting groups that support hate,” and we’ve been asked, haughtily, by our betters in the chattering class, is this really the alternative to Justin Trudeau that we want? (A supermajority of Canadians say “yes.”)

Normal people kept their eyes on the prize, as they tend to do, which only appeared to embolden the Extremely Online left.

It was all hands on deck. The more histrionic pretend-journalists in the group leaned into the most reliable and causal of all reporting techniques, ‘this stranger posted something on Facebook or Twitter,’ so the Leader of the Official Opposition must be in agreement.

Some of our more effete commentators, who have their fingers on the pulse of a corpse of a country that no longer exists, joined in on the team effort.

And then there were the Bruce Arthurs of the world, pictured in the headline image, who spent two-and-a-half years working to shutdown Ontario schools and businesses, while not-so-secretly breaking every irksome and evidence-free mandate they shrieked for, while drawing the ire of dozens of good people in media. Men like Bruce, well, they took the Chicken Little routine to a whole new level.

Perhaps it’s somewhat rote to use the term ‘Liberal media’ so flippantly, but what else is that dreaded and dastardly normal human being meant to surmise, when the sky falls so willingly on some of the newsrooms of the nation; only, not for the daily kill the Jews protest, or B.C. being made to walk back the insanity of decriminalized heroin, or two entire generations being presented with the opportunity to either wipe out a government status quo that has failed them so, or wade into the ocean with rocks in their pockets, but for the ‘far-right,’ when the right isn’t even in power?

In a terrific piece, Post Managing Editor Carson Jerema perfectly encapsulated the game that was afoot:

Once the public broadcaster decided that it was going to do this story, it could have at least tried to get a voice, a third-party, to explain that maybe this is a story about nothing. But what are our public dollars good for if not a hatchet job in defence of a Liberal prime minister?

So, in addition to Trudeau, they quoted NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who implied Poilievre is stoking “hatred,” and a pollster who mused that the Conservatives are becoming “over-confident.” The opposition leader’s office did respond to the CBC, but its response wasn’t mentioned until the 17th paragraph.

And all of this, because Poilievre shook hands with a few protesters. The Liberals, trailing far behind in the polls, are in need of help and Canada’s media is answering the call.

Adding insult to moral injury, three days removed from the Star’s Althia Raj first doing the PMO’s bidding, followed by the CBC, and then Bruce asking what he may honestly believe to be a “nation-defining” question, IPSOS put out a poll where 72% of Canadians have given up entirely on the dream of home ownership. 80% have now been made to believe it’s only for the wealthy.

That leaves us with definitive questions, but not of scribbles on doors and mere dozens of men radicalized on the internet for reasons fairly understandable when one stops to survey the post-national wreckage, but of the red phones now ringing in select newsrooms, and of a Tale of Two Canadas, where ‘the haves’ still think the old rules still apply, and the ‘have nots’ have grown hip to the conditions of their captivity.

It took Erin O’Toole to fail — spectacularly — in his quest to win via policies of appeasement with a now-fervent red guard, for the more common-sense-minded Canadian to firmly get the picture. These people hate you. No matter the circumstance. No matter how hard you try to win them over.

Even a camper door is not a camper door. Open it wide enough, and it’s a world of opportunity when the Liberals are at rock bottom in the polls.

It’s going to take Justin, and his journos, having to fail equally as spectacularly, to get a picture of their own:

The feeling is mutual.