Dismal

I know it's been fashionable for the past four years to hate Trump, I mean everyone who's anyone does.  But frankly, he will go down in history as a pretty good president.  Among other achievements, Trump was the first president not to have started any wars with anyone,  he brought troops home for the pointless Afghanistan "campaign" and initiated "Operation Warp Speed", which got vaccination production ramped up and humming.  You might not like his approach, but at least he had one.  

Contrast that to Canada's dismal performance, where all governments did squat during the 10 months they forced everyone into hiding, many into poverty and desperation many to suicide.  When things opened up a little, it seems no health officials had been doing anything to get vaccines ready to roll.  Once again, the army had to be commandeered to leap into the unfathomable breach to scramble for vaccines and needles.  

Then yippee, it was all hands on deck in the provinces to.....uh.....not get them into arms.  John Lewis, Edmonton-based biotech executive told MPs at the Commons health committee, that "decisive and upfront funding made available by the US and Britain to provide hundreds of millions of dollars to companies with potential vaccine candidates early in the pandemic," meant these countries were on top of making homegrown vaccines.  

Canada's approach, pathetic in contrast, was to sprinkle around a few million to a bunch of domestic developers, but only to a maximum of $5 million each.  With that paltry amount, you can do zilch.  So, guess what?  We got zilch!  Instead, we threw around billions to teenagers who promptly quit their jobs and dined out -- or in -- on the SERB.  Lot of good that did.  

Lewis added that, "the Federal government took a careful, risk-averse -- read typically Canadian -- and committee-based decision -- read useless -- approach that led to a relatively modest amount of scattered funding for companies in Canada to develop domestic vaccines.  This put all the financial risk of vaccine development onto the small companies, with which there was no followup on progress -- read a combination of typically Canadian and useless.  This was a mistake."

Effing right it was.  Right now, lawmakers are focusing mainly on why it has not kept pace, instead of on how to get us jabbed.  Gawd!             

The bottom headline trumpets how we're going to get a record 640,000 doses this week.  Wow, that won't even cover Oshawa!  And that's the largest shipment in a single week.  And this is to be trumpeted?!  Oh wait, apparently we're to get another 445,000.  Whew!  That might just cover Oshawa?  Hang on, just read we may be saved afterall.  Moderna will be shipping a whopping 168,000 shots this week too.  That might do it!  The next shipment?  Three weeks from now.  Oh dear, better keep the doors locked and stay inside.  Anita Anaud, you have done a p-ss-poor job getting supplies, so don't sit in front of a camera smugly lying through your teeth and telling us all is well.

Back to China.  Liberal back benchers may have grown a few pairs because they all voted to declare China's desecration of the Uyghurs officially genocide.  Naturally, in an unprecedented move Trudeau forced his entire cabinet to abstain.  How elected members can sit in Parliament and abstain from voting is unconscionable.  Oh, I forgot, they're Liberals.

But it won't matter because China will not be impressed that Justin didn't call it genocide.  They'll impose sanctions anyway to deter other countries from doing the same.  Anyway, Trudeau would have a hard time calling anyone out on genocide because in 2019 he accepted the finding of the MMIWG report that Canada had actually committed genocide on natives.  Now there was a bullsh-t finding if ever there was one.  Genocide?  You mean we lined them up, shot them, dumped them into mass graves, rounded them up, tortured them, starved them and everything else that constitutes genocide??!!  Of course, it was virtue-signalling by our man-child, misguided PM.  All I can say is, watch for more money flowing to make up for the "genocide".

Will it get the two Michaels out of China?  No.  While I'm at it, why is Canada's foreign policy decided by the two Michaels anyway?  They went to China with their eyes open, became pawns in an international tussle between the US and China under Trump and found themselves trapped when he dumped the issue into our extradition obligatory treaty process.  Hey, you travels to China, you takes the consequences.  I'm sure I sound cruel and ruthless, but no country should ever tailor foreign policy around two people's folly.  But this being Canada, no one except me will ever say this out loud.  

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