Canada's election, in which Justin Trudeau's chickens come home to roost

Justin Trudeau is not your woke bae, he's just Joe Biden with abs: there's no policy so progressive that JT won't endorse it, provided that he never has to do anything to make good on that endorsement, which is how JT ended up being complicit in the #MuslimBan, making Canada's Patriot Act much worse, bailing out the Transcanada pipeline so in service to Alberta's filthy, planet-destroying tar sands, abandoning his promises for indigenous reconciliation, rescuing the giant Saudi arms deal, caving to Trump on NAFTA 2.0, and putting partisanship ahead of justice to get a corrupt, giant engineering company off the hook, throwing his indigenous Attorney General under the bus in order to preserve his relationship with a giant party donor.

Considered in that light, his multiple brown- and blackface incidents feel like the icing on a big, inedible cake.

It's hard to imagine that history will be kind to Trudeau's posterity -- after all, even Justin Trudeau took to the streets to march against Justin Trudeau's policies.

Yesterday, Canadians went to the polls to elect a new parliament and Prime Minister. They dealt a brutal blow to Trudeau and his Liberal Party, voting out twenty of his MPs. Meanwhile, the Tories -- who've been riven by internal divisions as the white nationalist wing of the party has tired of being rebuffed by the Tory's plutocrat power brokers and schismed, founding their own "People's Party" -- picked up 26 seats and narrowly won the popular vote. Read the rest