Trudeau's Concerns Over Global Democratic Decline Doesn't Wash...

The only democratic decline that should concern him is the one he is causing in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is at it again, spending Canadian tax dollars on his pet projects. This one involves two of his obsessions – climate change and his cock-eyed view that democracy is in jeopardy everywhere in the world, except here, in Canada. So, he is pledging $8.4 million to – get this – “better understand how climate change interacts with democratic decline.” What does ‘how climate change interacts with democratic’ decline even mean? Sounds like an assumption is being made here. That being that climate change causes democratic decline. How do we know that to be the case? Sounds like a hypothesis that Trudeau has come up with and is willing to spend $8.4 million of your tax dollars to prove it. Well he has got his Crown corporation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to do the research and given that so much of what it does is focused on climate change, I’m sure it will work hard to give the government the answers it wants. 

Seriously? Trudeau, perhaps should, instead, be looking into how the authoritarian climate change policies that he, and other like minded leftist leaders, relentlessly push on their citizens impact democracy. Like the idea that locking people up in fifteen minute cities is a good way to ‘fight’ climate change, never mind the curtailment of freedom of movement.

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Like increasing the price of everything for consumers with never ending carbon tax hikes, despite the fact that most people oppose them.Taxes that have done nothing to ‘fight’ climate change but do fill government coffers to fund more pie in the sky ‘climate change’ initiatives while making life harder for ordinary Canadians. Like forcing people into useless electric cars they neither want nor can afford and that, for northern countries like Canada, simply don’t function in sub-zero temperatures. Like, bankrupting farmers with more crippling carbon taxes on every element of their business. Then attack their use of nitrogen-based fertilizer making cost-efficient food production next to impossible; while at the same time thinking it would be a good thing for people to start eating bugs to save the planet from ‘climate change’.

And his constant preaching on climate change is enough to drive anyone to drink, but they won’t be able to afford that either with his never ending escalation tax on booze. I could go on, but you get the picture. But beyond his cultish adherence to climate change, one could say that hypocrisy is almost a kind of religion that Trudeau lives by – the do as I say don’t do as I do kind, as he hops onto his private jet to take yet another vacation. 

Trudeau took the opportunity to make his announcement while addressing the third annual Summit on Democracy, taking place in South Korea, this March, which, ironically, was orchestrated by the Biden administration. A government that has had its Democrat appointed and George Soros funded Attorney Generals in various states relentlessly prosecuting Donald Trump on frivolous nuisance charges in an attempt to get him, as Joe Biden’s biggest threat in the next presidential election, off the ballot. Now that’s real democracy in action.

Trudeau addressed the international summit via a video link where he discussed the fact that many countries worldwide will be having elections in the coming months, but solemnly lamented that half of them will not meet the ‘academic standard of being free and fair’. He used everyone's favourite whipping boy these days, Russia, as an example of that, describing the election of Vladimir Putin as ‘stacked’. The man has no shame. Here, he has the audacity to talk an international audience about unfair elections, when in his own country there is ample evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CPP) has blatantly interfered in the last three Canadian elections that made him Prime Minister and that he was advised of this by his own intelligence agency and did nothing about it and tried to deny it.

Then after months of opposition parties and the public pressuring the government to call a national inquiry into the matter, the Liberals finally relented and did so. But even the Inquiry's integrity is being called into question. Hong Kong immigrants and the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) have boycotted the proceedings over concerns that several politicians with suspected ties to Chinese Consulates were awarded legal standing by the Liberal appointed Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue. They maintain that Hogue, by giving them standing, is putting the Chinese diaspora in Canada and their families in China at a security risk if they testify. They also expressed concerns over the Inquiry’s objectivity due to Commissioner Hogue’s links to former Liberal prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, both of whom had quite an affinity for China. And finally, during the first week of the Inquiry, Democracy Watch had already started expressing concerns that the Liberal government's culture of secrecy could overshadow the public’s right to know by hiding behind national security concerns, which of course, it is doing.

Then of course there are the Liberal government’s attacks on free speech in Canada, the latest being the introduction of the On-Line Harms Act  Bill C 63. Introduced under the guise of protecting children from on-line pornography, it also delves into ‘protecting’ everyone from online ‘hate crime’ which includes punishments of up to life in prison for online ‘hate crimes’, without really defining what a ‘hate crime’ would be. The bill also lays the groundwork for establishing a ‘Digital Safety Commission’ giving enormous powers to government appointees to that Commission, and finally it gives judges the ability to place a person under house arrest on the grounds they may commit a future ‘hate’ crime… you know like in the movie Minority Report. 

And let’s not forget what the Trudeau government did to the Freedom Convoy protest back in February of 2022, by invoking the Emergencies Act. In doing so it gave themselves far overreaching powers to not only brutally shut down the protest with riot police, but to seize the assets of protest participants and to freeze their bank accounts without so much as a court order. The Trudeau government has since been rebuked for its use of the Act, with the Federal Court ruling that it was illegal, unjustified and unconstitutional.

The Trudeau government was one of the few governments to impose travel mandates on its citizens during the COVID era, banning the unvaccinated from travelling on planes or trains. Those who exercised their right to autonomy and informed consent were treated like second-class citizens, or worse yet, dissidents, who could not leave the country. If that doesn’t feel dictatorial, I don’t know what does?

And it is certainly hard to forget that the Prime Minister’s Officer, and by de facto, the Prime Minister invited a bonafide Nazi, a WW 2 soldier from the Waffen SS, into Parliament to give him a standing ovation! All this and Trudeau has the nerve to talk to an international audience about the decline of democracy in other countries and pledge millions of our tax dollars to counter it. Gas lighting at its finest, but the Trudeau government has turned that into a fine art. 

Some of this $8.4 million is apparently going to protect the human rights of ‘environmental defenders’ (code word for climate activists). Strange, though, you don’t see much in the news about people like Greta Thunberg being persecuted for defending environmental initiatives that fight climate change. Thunberg is feted as a hero by the climate change cult. People who do find themselves in trouble are those that question the climate agenda and are attacked as climate change deniers, and can lose their jobs or be de-platformed on YouTube for challenging the climate change mantra. What about a few dollars to protect them? Or will this money be going toward helping those climate activists who thought throwing paint at priceless artworks was a good way to stop global warming. Is it their rights Trudeau is worried about? Or maybe it's those axe-wielding masked activists that violently attacked a Coastal Gaslink construction site in British Columbia back in 2022. They laid siege to the site at night, swinging axes at vehicles and buildings and through a truck's window. It was reported that they also attempted to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside it. The attack resulted in millions of dollars in damage to Coast Gaslink equipment. Are those the ‘environmental defenders’, whose human rights need protection according to Trudeau?

But wait, this $8.4 million is actually just part of a $30 million package of grants that Trudeau has earmarked to defend human rights and promote ‘inclusion’. This is all DEI nonsense. First there is $22.3 million to defend human rights and promote inclusion – that DEI buzz word, ‘inclusion’. And $5.6 million to strengthen resilient democratic institutions. Which ones would those be, one needs to ask, as DEI has infected virtually every democracy and its democratic institutions in the western world with its neo-Marxist, anti-human and anti-democratic ideologies attacking democratic resilience on all fronts. And $2.5 million to counter foreign interference, now that is ironic, maybe instead Trudeau should consider keeping that money right here in Canada to counter foreign interference here. You know, to further investigate how those CCP police stations ended up in the country or how two CCP spies ended up working at the National Microbiology Laboratory, in Winnipeg, Manitoba; only the most high-security such facility in the country.

This is nothing more than Trudeau using $30 million of our hard-earned cash to do what he does ever so well – virtue signalling. Letting the world know, ad nauseam, what a woke, high minded, compassionate leader he is.  He is nothing of the sort with his track record of trampling on Canadians rights, when it comes to freedom of speech, freedom to live our lives as we choose rather than buckling to some phony climate change ‘emergency’ we are forced to pay for, and free to protest against his government without fearing that our protest will be crushed by the government and our money will be stolen from us. Trudeau has no more right to, once again, act like he is some shining symbol of democracy. His virtue on that, if he ever had any, is long gone. And spending our money to pretend otherwise is an added insult to hard working Canadians. 

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