Rex Murphy: Western anger was hot before Monday's election. Now it's molten

Among the most ridiculous campaign launches, and there were so many to choose from, there was the madness of the last days that if you, the voter, wanted to save the planet, you had to vote for Liberal.

Thus, it is necessary to emphasize that the Canadian elections are not about the world. Since it is not ours to save or to destroy. The Canadian elections refer to Canada, that is, it must focus on how to improve it, strengthen it, make it healthier and safer for its citizens. They are or should be, exercises in which party leaders refresh a sense of Canada’s aspirations and ideals as a nation.

Likewise, there is no doubt that they should try to ensure that the agreement that the Canadians have with themselves, the Confederation, goes through an always necessary renewal, responds to contemporary challenges and continues to ensure the peaceful, prosperous and highly successful country that It is Canada.

A new level of mediocrity

Certainly any Canadian would like certain characteristics to be met before the government of Canada, however, this seems only a dream. And it is that for the recent election, a clumsy, trivial, degrading and small election that has just ended, does not respond to any of these qualifications. In fact, it is considered to have been a struggle between mediocrities.

Frictions and anxieties in the West over the deplorable treatment of its main industry, harassment of regulations and protests, and judicial delays that paralyzed development and drove billions of Alberta capitals away had occurred, before the elections, a mood and a feeling of closeness.

In this way, Alberta in particular, has been seen quite justifiably, as anyone who pays real attention to the province, and cares a lot about it, has seen herself as an objective, as a subsidiary of the center’s concerns in Ottawa, a late occurrence in any of the great schemes proposed by a very “progressive” Trudeau government. He saw from the beginning of the first government of Trudeau, with his great global position, his presentation almost as a champion of the global warming frenzy, that this action was going to be at the expense and to the detriment of his worries, his employment, his industry.

Source: Rex Murphy | National Post