On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 22:50:31 -0500, Rhino
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I am HORRIFIED that Trudeau took this decision. He's beem very low in
the polls for almost a year now and is determined to fight the next
election rather than leaving politics. I can only suspect he's trying to >ensure the Muslim and radical young person vote and is ignoring anything >resembling a moral decision.
I completely agree with you on your analysis - but then I never
thought JT had much gumption on the matter of 'moral decisions'
I think this is going to bite him in the ass - hard. Look at the
comments under the stories about this development. Virtually no one in
this country supports this move. I suspect this may be the final straw
for some Jewish Liberal MPs, particularly Anthony Housefather, who has
been trying to keep the Liberal Party in its traditional position of >supporting Israel. I can well imagine Housefather - and maybe others - >"crossing the floor", i.e. leaving the Liberal Party and either sitting
as independents or outright joining the Conservative Party. Or maybe
he/they will just resign their seats altogether.
The most commonly expected date for the next federal election is
summer/fall 2025 - so I don't see a Member of Parliament resigning now
- it would mean a by-election JT's party might conceivably win (though
probably wouldn't - see below). It would be particularly embarassing
to JT if Housefather in particular resigned since he holds the seat
formerly held by Pierre Trudeau in his time (basically 1970s/80s) -
and has one of the highest percentage of Jewish voters in Montreal.
BC had a provincial cabinet minister who is Jewish who was forced out
of the cabinet after she compared development in what is now Israel
compared to what existed pre-1947 in less than complementary terms.
The BC Muslim Association had in response issued a statement saying no
member of the NDP provincial caucus would be welcome in any mosque as
long as the lady in question remained in Cabinet and she was duly
forced out. I'm astonished the Premier had kept her in cabinet at all
given the next provincial election is October 2024 and she had
indicated she wouldn't be seeking election. The standard Canadian
practice is to remove anybody from cabinet who isn't seeking
re-election so that they can be replaced with a rookie who is likely
to get some good publicity in the year before the election - but that
hadn't happened in Robinson's case so I was wondering if she had
changed her mind and had told the premier but not the public but...
Among other things she said her party was deeply anti-Semitic which
caused howls since she said "the NDP" >NOT< "the NDP caucus" and while
there are several strong NDP supporters (the public sector unions
notably who amongst other things had demanded Jewish employees put
their Stars of Davids under their clothing on the job since "some
persons of color consider it a sign of genocide") that have amply
earned the anti-Semitic label I don't see that the provincial
politicians themselves had done so - though I don't recall supportive statements by the Premier or his cabinet following Oct 7th either.
So while I accept your point about JT and anti-Semiticism I do think
the NDP has more of a problem than the Liberals. Of course headlines
in the coming weeks may change my mind...
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