We may think what we want of Justin Trudeau, we must recognize a great quality: the man is a visionary.
He has a clear vision for Canada.
Justin Trudeau doesn’t just want to manage the country on a whim – taking care of borders, passports, the smooth running of the economy, etc.
He did not come into politics to administer the store.
He wants to transform the country from top to bottom.
The man has a plan, and he will do everything to achieve it.
FLIP, FLOP AND FLY
When, in December 2015, Justin Trudeau told a reporter from the New York Times that he was going to make Canada “the first post-national country in the world”, he wasn’t throwing it around to make the smatte.
He revealed his plan.
Trudeau is like an entrepreneur who buys a house to “pinball” it.
He throws load-bearing walls on the ground, demolishes the gallery, tears off the skylights that made the charm of the house, throws the big chandeliers in the living room in the trash, blocks the fireplace…
As if he were transforming an old heritage house into an ultra-modern hotel complex.
When Justin will leave the world of politics (or when the world of politics will leave him), it’s very simple, we will no longer recognize the country.
When he arrived, Canada was an old fieldstone house.
When he leaves, it will be a four-star Hilton. With an air-conditioned lobby and ample parking.
Modern, of course. Welcoming.
But without personality.
CANADA IS A PARK
Want to know what it looks like, a “post-national” country?
Look at the new passport.
All historical references have been erased.
Maisonneuve? Out!
The Battle of Vimy, probably one of Canada’s greatest feats of arms and one of the most glorious pages in its history (100,000 Canadian soldiers fought there, 11,000 were wounded, and 3,600 lost their life)?
Erased!
There are still animals, corn and plants.
A park.
Canada has become a park.
Arrive with your tent, pitch it, and welcome home.
Justin “stripped” everything.
We shave everything and start fresh.
Canada, for Justin, is natives and immigrants, that’s it, that’s all.
No more “founding peoples”.
Look at the coat of arms.
Coat of arms is a set of symbols that represent a country, a family, a dynasty.
As if we were telling the story of a country in pictures.
Well, as Thomas Mulcair pointed out the other day in his column on Canada’s new coat of arms, there are no more fleur-de-lis.
Justin ripped them off.
Officially, because they are “religious symbols”.
But no one is fooled.
In Canada, everyone knows what the fleur-de-lis represents.
It’s Quebec.
Quebec is no longer present on the coat of arms of the country.
DISMANTLING THE COUNTRY
The biggest mistake Quebecers can make is to think that Justin is a clown.
It’s quite the opposite.
The man is very smart. And knows very well where he is going.
He is dismantling Canada. To make it an Airbnb.