that's right.

in ten years, our prime minster, darling of american media, has managed to accomplish one thing, which was to legalize marijuana.

his government has passed no other substantive legislation and has otherwise been indiscernible from the government it replaced, which was reviled by the centre-left by tha time it left office.

the party should now throw freeland out of the party and run somebody against her, preferably somebody who is actually a liberal, in the next election.

she was consistently the single most unpopular choice in opinion polls as a replacement leader, lagging behind everybody else in cabinet, people outside of cabinet and people who had already left the party. the party should distance itself from her as far as possible and carry out a scorched earth policy regarding everything she's ever said, ever done or any file she's ever touched. she's a right-wing loser.

maybe she can get a job working somewhere in the states.

i will say congratulations to dominic leblanc.

in turfing freeland, that's the second time he's defeated cancer. they should study this guy.

the canada post back to work legislation is the second time the liberals have attacked workers in the space of a few weeks.

voters who support collective bargaining should take note.

i'm not very excited about carney, but i'm ecstatic to get rid of freeland, who belongs somewhere on the "was wiped out in 1993" wing of the old conservative party and only ended up on the liberal party because trudeau wanted her to run for office.

the media is going to present this as the coronation of mark carney.

in fact, it's the beginning of a process for the centre to reclaim control of the liberal party away from the regressive right, who has become ascendant in the party over the trudeau years. carney will not be a successful politician and will not last long. he could lose a by-election and will have trouble keeping a seat.

how will we remember justin trudeau? like bill clinton.

trudeau was elected to undo and delete harper, as clinton was elected to undo reagan, but has instead been a caretaker prime minister. the history books will talk about the harper-trudeau government as a singular entity, as all that trudeau has done for the last ten years is sit on harper's policy shifts and wait to lose an election, so that the harper government can be extended by a third conservative government. trudeau's singular substantive piece of legislation was to legalize marijuana, which is an ideologically market libertarian right-wing position that appears to be a failed experiment that will be reversed within a few years. i hope that the government, in the end, launches a class action suit against the marijuana industry to try to pay for some of the medical costs we're incurring, such as increases in lung cancer and heart disease rates. 

liberals need to rise up and take back control of their party through a lengthy leadership process that is about foundational ideas and the soul of the party, which has literally been sold. 

if the party cannot renew itself from the centre-left, it may cease to exist, to the great benefit of the ndp and the great detriment of the actual left.

the liberal party of canada actually seriously intends to run a conservative banker for prime minister.

there's almost no possibility they're going to win the next election. granted. but they do have to concern themselves with their long term reputation.

the party is all in. they're actively recruiting him.