Saturday, March 03, 2007

Dion-Chrétien popped by Ignatieff-Martin for Trudeau

Wow, I just got word tonight of a backroom coup with a forced political collapse to go (what an honest banana republic) from a pretty knowledgable guy in Ottawa, who has down his inside baseball to a science - and that would be political! Supposedly the Jean Chrétien crew, who rules the Liberal party once more, is being attack internally yet again by the Paul Martin mob, this time using factions within separate leadership camps to take issue with one another all over again. From what has been gathered, Stéphane Dion loyalists thought Uniting the Left would be easy by going green on the environmental issue, but Michael Ignatieff rebels wanted substantial change to the way government worked by at least a real promise of political reform and clean up a system that stole power from them personally (Jean-Stéphane robbed Paul-Michael then, now vice versa politically, to feed Québec with taxdollars from Ontario and the rest of Canada, to stave off separation with an Option Canada of Trudeau over the Option Québec of Lévesque, as I have been explained Adscam, Groupactiongate or another official title being the Sponsorship Program Scandal and its Advertising Activities Affair). Which now makes Bob Rae an important voice within the party, does he back his intellectual bunkbuddy from university and fellow English compatriots of Ontario West, to whom he was once their Premier over a decade ago, or does he back this Unite the Left effort by the Franco base of Québec East for the sake of social democracyatic socialism in Canada. So once again, tactically divided loyalities within the party are once more attacking each other, allowing the federal Tories under Stephen Harper room to create that majority pan-Canadian-wide coalition, if they want, to like Brian Mulroney - making the Liberals a Party of Conservatives and the Conservatives a Party of Liberals (for those who remember Bill Clinton two consecutive terms straight this makes some kind of sense)!

Now don't go off the handle just yet, don't rush to stop the presses, this is the same guy who told me, back in the election for 301 Members of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons of the 37th Parliament of Canada, that if the Canadian Alliance didn't win Ontario from the Liberals, its main creators would start a deeply regionalized Western Block party founded in Calgary and Harper would be its Leader using his Three Sisters theory as its main base. Then in 2003, after the selection of Harper as Leader of the Conservatives, he thought Mulroney would hold a open press conference with Lucien Bouchard and work to bring on back the Bloc Québécois electorally and other Québec nationalists officially into the fold to rebuild the coalition. Now most recently, he interrupted me in class last semester (political science of all them) to give me the scoop that Garth Turner would be calling a byelection by the end of the week, going to Green from Tory by the end of the month in the House and likely create enough friction that another leadership race would be held within their party, yet none of these events happened, however caveat emptor now established, then I must say that I agreed with him on all three scenerios!

But with the emergence of political superstar Justin Trudeau, obviously it is not that hard to imagine another transfer of power in such a way as was done for his philosopher king father Pierre Elliot Trudeau and especially with a party desperate for some Leadermania to get a nation back on its band wagon again. I still contend, despite the evidence to its contrary, that Grit leadership still doesn't know what time it really is or whose first nation or solitude of the deux is next to be selected, things have changed within this brand new world of Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and Multiracialism that make their old world of Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Biracialism now antiquated and obsolete, as I think a Windsor born yet bred in Ottawa just mixed up the combination, now the rejection of a politically academic Pur Laine separatist from Vieux Québec whose own federalist dad taught at Laval (Freud's Oedipus complex theory anyone) to create a Canadian king of kings in its secularized Québécois sense, one must ask who best exemplifies their new vision of leadership and could it be someone perhaps born in Ottawa yet bred in Montréal or Ville-Marie. Leaving behing his New Democratic membership and Cité Libre journal in 1965, the powers that be gave the senior Trudeau party membership, safe Mount Royal seat, the role of Minister of Justice in Cabinet (where he eventually passed the Omnibus Bill with John Turner as his personal Quiet Revolution just began), then won the Prime Ministership of Canada without even an election, as Lester Pearson quitely stepped down after the Centennial. All this in less than only three years, before the fact had social journalist Gerard Pelletier and labour organizer Jean Marchand to push him into power and then after the fact had Minister of Justices Turner and Chrétien with Registrar General André Ouellet to keep him in for power, so the original question evolves, the new vision of exemplified leadership may have changed - but who would be the three wise men for the junior Trudeau now and later?