The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, would like to say a word about politics if you had doubts about the old saying that it could be a “fickle business.”
A series of happy months later, a slew of polls revealed that Poilievre, who had a staggering plurality to boot, appeared to be poised to become the nation’s next prime minister.
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s overspending prime minister, was concerned about the ever-increasing cost of living, from groceries to homes, in general.
Poilievre and his shadow cabinet abused the current era and appeared determined to oust an ailing Liberal Party from a political reckoning that was brutal and resolute.
Then, Donald Trump re-entered the White House, threatening to make Canada the union’s 51st state.
Political terrain and the stakes suddenly shifted, disorienting, and shifting. Liberals profited from the election by removing Trudeau and appointing Mark Carney as their “serious” replacement for Trump.
Liberal fortunes have turned a stunning volte-face with election day approaching. The party has slightly slipped ahead after initially trailing far behind like a harmed racehorse limping to the finish line.
However, Carney and the cocksure company should remember that there are no guarantees in life or politics beyond taxes.
In some polls, the lead is reclaimed by Conservatives in a tightening debate.
The state-sponsored genocide devouring Palestine and Palestinians with such ruthless and inhumane efficiency is the defining issue of these terrible times, even though the subject of the short campaign was the existential threat that a former continental confederate poses to Canada’s sovereignty.
The same enraged and determined Canadians have made it clear that the established political parties in Canada must take note of the genocide, or they will suffer the unavoidable and harsh consequences.
Scores of Canadians reaffirmed their resolve last week in Ottawa by calling on the country’s political leaders to answer for their continued denial of the genocide against Israel and forbid the Israeli government from putting pressure on Tel Aviv to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
A concerned Canadian said, “We are here in Ottawa to demand a two-way arms embargo,” and to tell all politicians that they would not receive a single vote from any of our communities.
Of course, the concerned Canadian is not the only one.
In a show of support for their besieged brothers and sisters in Palestine, thousands of like-minded Canadians have joined them and donated time, money, and energy to encourage the movement to mobilize Arab and Muslim voters all over Canada on April 28 in their country and across Canada.
The overarching goal of fixing Palestine and Palestinians’ fate is at the center of Canada’s political dialogue, which includes large, national, and politically active grassroots movements like #ElectPalestine, MuslimsVote, and Vote Palestine.
Finally, they must be heard and looked after.
What little of its vacuous currency has lost because of the predictable cultural condescension, which includes quick, election-time visits to mosques and cliche-ridden rhetoric meant to convey tissue-thin “sympathy” for Palestinians’ “sad” plight.
Instead, powerful electorates want the “major” political parties of Canada to reevaluate fundamentally and unequivocally their long-standing support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an indicted war criminal, and outright reject his oft-repeated, international law-desecrating goal of reducing Palestine to dust and memory.
The “Uncommitted” cause being gaining steam in Canada recalls the Arab and Muslim candidates who warned the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris, its standard bearer, that they were going to lose votes in crucial swing states by continuing to arm and provide diplomatic cover to Netanyahu during the 2024 US presidential election.
Harris ignored the need to stir up the conversation and, as a result, forfeited the presidency to appease Israel, its American evangelical supporters, and Netanyahu’s grotesque strategic objectives.
Her reward
Trump has embraced him like a brother-in-genocidal-arms, thanks to an energized Netanyahu.
In 2028, the Democratic Party may or may not have learned an important lesson that could have a significant impact on its shariah-holding on Israel.
We’ll see more information in due course.
In the meantime, Carney and Poilievre have been practising Harris’ mocking of Canadian voters’ pressing concerns.
Poilievre refers to mass pro-Palestinian protests as “hate marches,” calling them crude, irredeemable honorary Zionist zealots.
A concerned Canadian who asked the prime minister, “Why are you sending weapons to Israel via the US to kill our families,?” confronted Carney at a rally in Ontario earlier this month.
Carney responded with silence.
The decision-making process between the prime minister and his handlers should be informed by the fact that the majority government in Canada will be determined by the candidate.
In 90 electoral districts across Canada, Arab and Muslim voters make up a sizable portion of the electorate, and more than 40 seats could be topped of that number.
Carney, a career-long numbersman, is well aware that dismissing or alienating many Canadians in their many ridings only leads to disappointment and potential peril.
Carney can use this as a model for winning over Canadians who want to cast ballots with Gaza and the West Bank in their minds and hearts, according to a recent public opinion survey conducted by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).
A ban on exporting weapons to Israel is supported by more than half of Canadians. Fast 50% of people want that ban to become a full-fledged two-way embargo, which is even more telling.
These are not arbitrary conclusions. They represent a growing consensus among Canadians who are sick of their leaders using moral deception.
Carney has largely accepted Canada’s so-called “balanced” approach as hedge-bearing. Hedging and calculated complicity will no longer be sufficient, though.
Through their silence and inaction, Canada’s political elites have condemned the humanitarian catastrophe being waged against innocent people in the shattered remnants of Palestine.
70 percent of liberal voters concur that Canada should recognize the ICC’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Yoav Gallant and Netanyahu, and that 56% of Canadians also support the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants.
Carney needs to do much more than support Melanie Joly, the country’s foreign minister,’s March, arms embargo.
Carney must support a two-way ban, stand with and for the ICC, and make it clear that Canada will not be a haven for alleged war criminals if he wants justice.
Anything less and Carney will have treated Arab and Muslim Canadians with his predecessors’ signature scorn, even when the polls are once again favorable.
Carney still has the right to make the right decisions at the right time and for the right reasons.
The prime minister will probably waste the opportunity, in my opinion. Like Kamala Harris, Mark Carney must pay a price that will endure forever.
Source: Aljazeera
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