"Dopey and rudderless"

Jagmeet Singh

That's how 'Globe and Mail' columnist Robyn Urback described Jagmeet Singh's leadership.  Yep, dopey and rudderless about sums the guy up.  I mean, what's a working man doing leading the NDP in the first place?  Singh sports Rolex watches, three-piece, $2,000 suits and drives an expensive BMW while purporting to represent the downtrodden, blue-collar workers of this country.

The days of Ed Broadbent and Charlie Angus are sadly barely visible in the rearview mirror.  Those guys really did represent the working man, but Singh doesn't.  The reality is that his "leadership" was assured when a bunch of well-heeled Sikhs joined the party during the convention at the last minute and voted for him.  They then quickly left him on his own, but elected.  What do I always say about race as a motivator?  Exactly.

Singh simply doesn't wash as a credible leader and the sooner they dump him, the better.  Have you ever heard him speak?  Do not operate heavy equipment when you listen to his meaningless word salads.

The latest dumb move was the sight of NDP MP Heather McPherson standing to propose a motion recognizing Palestine as a state, despite the fact that it's not even a country.  It's a collection of territories compromising parts of this and parts of that in the general region.  There's no such country as "Palestine".

Singh knows he's doomed, which is why he will continue to prop up the Liberals because in the next election, he probably won't even win his own seat.  It will be a Conservative landslide and Singh and the NDP will be lucky to even reach official party status.  

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Speaking of race, I was chatting with a young Indigenous man and happened to mention funding.  "Instead of blaming us for all your woes, why do you not ask your own leadership what they are doing with the billions given natives by the Canadian taxpayer every year?" I dared ask.  He looked stunned.  I guess no one had ever asked him that annoying question. 

I then went on to discuss the case of Charmaine Stick, a member of the Onion Lake Cree reserve, who was being stonewalled by her band's own leadership in her quest to find out where all the money was going.  Even faced with a court order to comply, her band's leaders still refuse to turn over the finances.  This young man had never heard of her.

He then accused me of denigrating his heritage.  Really?  I am not talking heritage; I'm talking money, stats and figures -- the more than $25 billion handed a scant 1.8 million natives every year.  That works out to millions per native.  He had no clue and continued to accuse me of casting aspersions on his heritage.

Should I have responded by complaining about his heritage continually blaming mine for all his ills?  Should I have reminded him that, even though I am of Irish and English descent, I had nothing to do with residential schools and colonialism?  I didn't, but that's what the Indigenous continue to do to my heritage -- ad nauseum.

See, that's the sorry state of this file in Canada.  No one dares speak the truth and if they do, the race card inevitably is played.  It's all the fault of colonialism and residential schools.....How long is "reconciliation" supposed to go on?  I'll tell you how long:  Until the money runs out because that's what it's all about.   

Sigh............