James, I thought you were over it: The hurt with last fall's federal conservative defeat, partly and significantly because the Conservative party within eight years removed Canada as a respected and influential middle power to what it is today.
The acclaimed reputation and contribution of successions of conservative and liberal governments to reason at home and diplomacy in world affairs were sacrificed to one-man rule that shred it all at the altar of a skewed ideology.
Your party now is looking to a Nova Scotian to make Canada great again!
Now I have to get a little more serious.
The single most influential (to our everlasting shame) post war Prime Minister was Pierre Trudeau. A man who never met a murdering socialist dictator he didn't love. Middle power my ass. We have spent decades puffing out our little chests, strutting around like little poppinjays, reveling in our own importance when in Canada and having our asses handed to us when abroad. I can do without the diplomatic skills of that Castro/Nazi/Mao loving blight on our country and all the liberal sycophants who got weak in the knees when he looked their way. (Looking at you King!)
Oh wait, King cries! What about good old Nobel winner Pearson, the King of soft dick, I mean soft power. Whose Nobel Prize winning contribution was UN Peacekeepers, an utterly discredited program that in most cases is just ineffectual and often prolongs conflicts into decades long fights by never allowing a resolution.
Or Mulroney, the king of bags of money in Swiss hotel rooms.
Harper was the problem? Let see, he had a principled approach to oppressive regimes like China. And when he did, the left was outraged. Now that he is gone, the left is outraged by the atrocities committed by the Chinese government and asks why we put up with it and engage with those people.
Typically, you want to have your cake and eat it too. The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
