Oh goodie, a crusty old American communist multimillionaire, instrumental in driving his own country toward ruin, injected himself into Canada’s federal election..But the endorsement NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh no doubt sought from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders was remarkably unenthusiastic..“Canada goes to the polls Monday. There’s only one party that stood up for working people in the pandemic. One leader who has the courage to make the wealthy pay their fair share so that everyone gets the medication they need. That’s why I support the @NDP and @theJagmeet Singh,” tweeted Sanders..Sanders isn’t an affable old man with a heart for the groaning masses. He’s a conniving, dangerous hard-core communist who condemns capitalism but personally enjoys its perks..Odd that Singh would consider his endorsement an asset. Or is it? Comrades Sanders and Singh drink from the same cup..Multimillionaire Sanders, who owns multiple homes, demonizes the wealthy. He’s pushing for a $3.5 trillion infrastructure and social spending package that has little to do with infrastructure, would create an unfair electoral system, and destroy middle-class America. .This follows other trillion-dollar infrastructure packages that plunged the U.S. into a $29 trillion debt..Sanders bellows about taxing billionaires, never offering proof his plans would create enough revenue to fund his unsustainable push for cradle-to-grave social programs..Singh who wears an $11,000 watch incessantly yelps that his plan to tax billionaires will cover costs of unsustainable multi-billion-dollar programs he proposes. It won’t..Sanders refused to call the ruthless Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro a dictator. Singh mournfully lamented the passing of the wicked Cuban dictator Fidel Castro..The two Marxist (communism with lipstick) minds really mesh over a mutual contempt for the energy industry and plans to annihilate it..Singh wound his way back to the Prairies Saturday to campaign in Conservative-held ridings where the incumbents and NDP candidates are virtually tied..In Edmonton, the NDP have poured huge resources into trying to wrestle Edmonton Griesbach away from MP Kerry Diotte, 65, who has represented the riding since 2015 and won 51% of the vote in the 2019 election..The polls indicate Diotte has only a slight edge over NDP candidate Blake Desjarlais, 27, a climate crusader and anti-pipeline activist committed to killing the Trans Mountain pipeline..“I’m against the TMX pipeline and its expansion,” he declares..The Desjarlais campaign hopes the fact that Desjarlais is a Metis vowing to fight for Indigenous rights will secure voters. A win, it claims, would make him Alberta’s only Indigenous MP..Oops. False. Alberta already has an MP with Indigenous roots. Diotte is Metis..He’s renowned for serving the diverse communities in his riding equally and well..Diotte recognizes the fallout from the Liberal government’s ruthless attack on Alberta’s energy industry – lost jobs, bankruptcy, fear, despair, hopelessness, suicides..Singh never bothers to mention the devastation Albertans endure. Singh, who wooed health care workers Saturday, loves to tell fairytales about how he’ll create green jobs and take care of everybody cradle-to-grave. .Singh, NDP MLAs, and former premier Rachel Notley have swarmed Griesbach to drum up support for Desjarlais, hoping to snare the seat to strengthen the left’s ill-conceived green crusade. .“Jagmeet Singh has some nerve coming to Alberta to preach his gobbledygook socialist gospel considering he despises our ethical energy industry and abhors our pipelines and any pipeline expansion,” said Diotte..“Albertans don’t want to take lessons from a guy who claims to stand up for working Canadians even as he works overtime to kill our jobs. Even Rachel Notley has said Singh’s loathing of our energy industry and pipelines is misguided.”.“I think most Albertans realize the Conservative Party of Canada is the only one that wholeheartedly supports the sustainable development of our ethical natural resource sector. This industry is absolutely critical to this country too, because of the wealth it creates to fund the wide variety of social programs we in Canada enjoy.”.Singh cleverly taps into the disdain Albertans feel for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal cabal..Traipsing about the Prairies, Singh pounded Trudeau for “abandoning” the provinces during the fourth COVID wave and other failings, excluding oil and gas policies..When asked if he’d prop Trudeau up if he forms another minority government, Singh dodged the question. Why wouldn’t he? Singh backed Trudeau on almost every issue, especially over the past two years..“The ballot question this election is whether people feel Justin Trudeau deserves a third term as prime minister. After knocking on thousands of doors in my riding, I’ve heard a resounding ’No’ to that question,” said Diotte..“But the NDP is our main competitor in Edmonton Griesbach and the majority of people realize that party can’t form government and dethrone Trudeau. Only the Conservatives under leader Erin O’Toole can make that happen.”.Desjarlais said his challenge “has been making people feel that the federal government can work for them.”.But not all of them. Not the Albertans whose livelihoods depend on the oil and gas industry. That includes the countless Indigenous people and First Nations who support the industry because the jobs it provides feeds their children..Slobodian is the Senior Manitoba Columnist for the Western Standard.lslobodian@westernstandardonline.com
