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Justin Trudeau: Expectations

22 Thursday Oct 2015

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A People's Prime Minister, Aboriginals, Men of the Moment, Money, Robert-Falcon Ouellette, Trudeau & Trudeau

Pierre et Justin

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Trudeau: There are both  similarities and profound difference between Father and Son. (The Canadian Press Files)

The Aftermath

I’m returning to the fine arts, stories, music, literature, aboriginals, &c. However, before I turn the page, allow me to comment on reactions that followed Monday’s Liberal Party victory.

On Tuesday, 20 October 2015, I read numerous newspaper articles as well as posts on the Federal election held Monday, 19 October 2015. By and large, journalists were surprised but happy with the outcome of the Canadian election.

However, I had written somewhere that because he was Pierre Trudeau’s son, Justin Trudeau had to face obstacles during his campaign. It was therefore suggested to me that being rich, famous and well-connected was not an obstacle, which I took to mean that being rich, famous and well-connected was an advantage. There can be no doubt that money, fame and the right connections can make a political campaign easier, but that is not altogether the case.

In other words, the fact remains that Justin Trudeau earned his victory in last Monday’s Federal election by presenting a coherent platform and one that addressed the needs of ordinary Canadians, beginning with Canada’s children and its families. It has become increasingly difficult for Canadians to make ends meet and save for retirement.

The Trudeau Family
The Trudeau Family
The Trudeau Famiy
The Trudeau Famiy
Sophie Grégoire & Justin Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire & Justin Trudeau
24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa
24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, is the home of Canadian Prime Ministers
(Photo credit: Google Images)

The Leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada

  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  • Justin Trudeau

It would be my opinion that, in 2013, during the Liberal Party leadership election, being Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s son probably helped Justin Trudeau secure the leadership of his Party. He replaced Michael Ignatieff (b. 1947) whose Liberals were defeated in the Canadian Federal Election of 2011 and who lost his own seat in Parliament. A change was needed. (See Liberal Party leadership election, 2013.)

However, at the beginning of the electoral campaign that culminated in a victory for the Liberals, Mr. Stephen Harper, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, stated that Justin Trudeau “[would] exceed expectations if he [came] on stage with his pants on.” The inference was that Justin Trudeau was too young and unable to fill his father’s shoes.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/trudeau-will-exceed-expectations-if-he-comes-on-stage-with-his-pants-on

Father and Son: The Moment

  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  • Justin Trudeau

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/trudeau-vs-trudeau

A comparison between father and son was inevitable and it is “trending,” which the image featured at the top of this post indicates. Moreover, although allusions to the father, Pierre Trudeau, were scarce during the campaign, the statement uttered by Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the onset of the 2015 Federal Election campaign remained on the mind of voters.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Trudeau was a Professor of Law who held a Master’s degree in Political Economy from Harvard University and had studied at both the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. I will list some of the highlights of the Trudeau years.[1]

  • The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69
  • The Official Languages Act, 1969
  • The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (embedded in the patriated Constitution, 1982)
  • The Patriated Constitution, 1982
  • Multiculturalism (section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)
  • &c.

The above list is incomplete. Moreover, I should mention that Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s decisions and policies were not always popular. On the contrary. For instance, in October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), the terrorist branch of Quebec’s separatist movement, kidnapped British diplomat James Cross and assassinated Quebec’s Minister of Labour and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte (25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970). (See October Crisis, Wikipedia.)

Trudeau brought on the War Measures’ Act and, as a result, militant separatists were arrested and several spent a night or more, in prison. These Quebecers have since been elevated to martyrdom.

I should also note that many Québécois and French Canadian nationalists resented the introduction of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism seemed inconsistent with the previously enacted biculturalism.

The Multiculturism Act was not passed until 1988, under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, but it was Section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, embedded in the Constitution Act of 1982.

In short, the truly great Pierre Trudeau miffed a few citizens, and Justin Trudeau was not a sure winner if compared to his father. Although the son has a more engaging personality than the father, they share several views and the son is as determined as the father.

Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau is well-educated, but he is not the intellectual his father was. People remember. But let us consider that times have changed and that, in 2015, Justin Trudeau seemed the man of the moment, just as his father had seemed the man of the moment in the 1970s, but for different reasons. In choosing leaders, the moment is a crucial factor. Between 1968 and 1984, the moment called for the intellectually polished Pierre Elliott Trudeau to lead the country. But 2015 was a different moment.

In 2015 Canada needed a Prime Minister who realized that Canadians could not make ends meet and who could inspire the nation to help him bring about greater prosperity for everyone. In 2015, Canada needed a Prime Minister who could listen to Canadians and reach out to them. So the man of the moment was no longer Pierre Trudeau, it was Justin Trudeau.

http://montrealgazette.com/news/national/election-results-liberal-partys-long-purgatory-ends-in-quebec

Therefore, contrary to Mr. Harper’s statement, expressed above, Justin Trudeau exceeded expectations. Not only did he come on stage fully and properly dressed, but Canadians found in him a listener and a very approachable candidate. He, Justin Trudeau, had a coherent and persuasive platform.

Yes he needed money to run a campaign, but money is not what brought him a resounding political victory. Mr. Harper and Mr. Mulcair also had money. One can donate money, within limits, to a political party.

Conclusion 

People, members of Parliament and Premiers, are looking forward to working with Justin Trudeau, soon to be the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau. For instance, ten Indigenous Canadians will sit in the House of Commons, la Chambre des communes, which comprises 338 members. One is Robert-Falcon Ouellette, a Métis representing Winnipeg Centre. He holds a PhD.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/from-euphoniums-to-family-guy-5-little-known-facts-about-robert-falcon-ouellette-1.3280493

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canada-election-results-winnipeg-centre-1.3278596

Trudeau & Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Trudeau & Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
With Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Premier
With Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Premier
Montreal, 20 October 2015
Montreal, 20 October 2015

(Photo credit: Lucas Oleniuk/ Toronto Star)
(Photo credit: Paul Chiasson/ The Canadian Press)

Being rich does not preclude being good. Justin Trudeau is a good person. No, he was not expected to be elected. However, he exceeded everyone’s expectations and may continue to do so.

I have just edited this post, and I apologize.

With kindest regards to all of view. ♥

____________________

[1]  Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 until 1984, with an interruption in 1979-1980, when 40-year-old Conservative leader Joe Clark was Prime Minister.

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19 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Sharing

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Business, Company, Credit card, Microsoft, Money, Payment, PayPal, WordPress

Frost by Bertha Boynton Lum (1869-1954), c. 1920.  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, LOC #LC-DIG-ppmsca-10484.

Photo credit:  http://store.tidbitstrinkets.com/blog/

As I was writing my blog, I looked at my last Credit Card statement and noticed that I had been billed for money obtained fraudulently.  I phoned the Credit Card company and was told I had been reimbursed that money after they sent their invoice.  However, they told me that they had made a payment to my PayPal account.  I do not have a PayPal account so this account was opened by someone else.  The Credit Card company asked me to destroy my brand new Credit Card and said they would retrieve that money.

In the meantime, I had contacted PayPal to open a PayPal account. They confirmed I had an account, the account I never opened.  Yes there had been activity, but they would fix this.  But they did not tell me they had billed my now disabled Credit Card, I cannot open an account with them until my computer has been scanned.

In other words I do not have

  • a Credit Card, temporarily, nor do I have,
  • a PayPal account.

Here are the tricks used to try to defraud me:

1) They disabled my computer,

  • made me believe they were Microsoft employees;
  • showed thousands of viruses;
  • and told me they could fix the problem for x amount of money.
  • They installed AVG at ten times the cost of AVG. 

Then someone else phoned and told me my computer was full of viruses and that the people who had phoned me had defrauded me.  They too posed as Microsoft employees, with photo ID.

I could smell a rat and phoned the Credit Card company immediately.  My card was cancelled and I received a new one about two weeks later.

2) A sense of guilt and harassment: they will not stop phoning.

I then received another phone call from the people who defrauded me the first time and was told I had to pay for the AVG protection they had installed.  I told them to take it away, but they said they could not do this.  So I hung up, but they kept phoning and phoning.  It turned into harassment.

In the end, they told me I would be charged a lower amount of money and they asked me if I had a PayPal account.  I told them I didn’t.  I therefore suspect, they created the PayPal account at that very moment.

The Credit Card people have experts who can deal with this, so I will get my money back.  However, I had to destroy my new Credit Card.

THE ADVICE

This is the advice I was given.

  • If someone tells me my computer is disabled, contact someone I trust to have it fixed, if indeed it needs to be fixed.
  • Do not use a Credit Card to pay for anything purchased on the Internet.
  • Phone the police if someone is manipulating me and harassing me.

THE SEQUEL

AVG is now messing up with my computer.  I’m getting alert pop-ups that I can’t close.  So

  • how do I get rid of AVG and
  • how do I pay WordPress?  My beloved WordPress would not accept my Credit Card when I had a valid one and now it could be two weeks before I receive a new Credit Card.
  • Doesn’t WordPress have a contact person or a phone number. 
  • I also learned that PayPal was not as safe as a Credit Card.  Credit Card companies hire experts and you have to authorize a payment.  In a sense, they fell into a trap.

CONCLUSION

I do not know how to get in touch with WordPress and may not be able to blog for about two weeks.  And I do not want a PayPal account.  Not only did I not have an account, but I did not authorize the payment(s) they made.

We will therefore listen and look at Japonaiserie.  

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