PhilPaine.com

I vot­ed for the present gov­ern­ment. I vot­ed for you. I had vis­cer­al­ly despised Harp­er, and I fell for your par­ty’s hokum about “sun­ny days” and restor­ing Canada’s demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues after the grim repres­sive­ness of the Con­ser­v­a­tive admin­is­tra­tion. Naive me.

This rid­ing includes Canada’s prin­ci­pal Gay neigh­bor­hood and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. Among my friends was a man who suf­fered ago­niz­ing tor­tures in the con­cen­tra­tion camps that Cas­tro threw thou­sands of gays into. He is now, mer­ci­ful­ly, dead, and does not have to hear a Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter prais­ing his tor­tur­er. He was under the impres­sion that he had come to a democracy.

Prime Min­is­ter Trudeau’s inane, syco­phan­tic blath­er prais­ing a mass-mur­der­er, slave-hold­er and exploiter is no dif­fer­ent from Trump’s cring­ing praise of Putin, Ronald Rea­gan call­ing the geno­ci­dal butch­er Rios-Montt “a man of great per­son­al integri­ty”, or Mar­garet Thatch­er claim­ing Augus­to Pinochet as a “true friend”.