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The Niagara Independent, July 29, 2022 \u2013<\/em> With a growing number of inconveniences and increased financial stresses in daily living, there are more Canadians realizing our federal government\u2019s inability to manage Canada\u2019s affairs. Political leadership is wanting, and the country\u2019s bureaucracy is proving incapable of delivering basic services. Headaches in obtaining a passport or flying out of Pearson airport are prompting Canadians to ask, what is happening to the country, its services and standing in the world?<\/p>\n A recent lead editorial in the Toronto Sun<\/i> exclaimed, \u201cFederal services collapsing under Trudeau.\u201d It cites the daily chaos unfolding at airports and the unheard-of flight disruptions. According to aviation industry experts, the primary cause of Canadians\u2019 travel turmoil is federal government mismanagement. This has led to the critical shortages of federal security and customs officers. To respond to this crisis PM Justin Trudeau immediately struck a task force committee of 10 cabinet ministers to improve the situation (and now more than a month later there is no word from the committee or any action to alleviate the problems).<\/p>\n There was also a damning National Post<\/i> editorial, \u201cCanada\u2019s public service is collapsing.\u201d It recounts details of the federal bureaucracy\u2019s \u201cpassport pandemonium.\u201d The Post<\/i> reports on exhaustive, hours-long line-ups at passport offices, airline counters, and airport security lines. It describes an overwhelmed bureaucracy that is haplessly coping with the crisis. Imagine the management at the Montreal passport office ordering 801 chairs so people will not have to stand in line?!<\/p>\n In a separate National Post<\/i> piece, columnist John Ivison posits: \u201cThe rot in Canada\u2019s dysfunctional government is coming from the top.\u201d Ivison lays blame squarely on a tired and wayward Liberal government.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past seven years, the Liberals have lost, or jettisoned, some of their most seasoned ministers and political staffers. They have often been replaced by farm-team players with less experience and less rounded skill sets. The upshot is a preoccupation with issues management and the politics of spin.\u201d<\/p>\n Ivison draws the analogy of the Trudeau government\u2019s inconsistencies with that of a decaying body. His argument proceeds to conjure up that ancient Turkish proverb: A fish rots from the head down.<\/p>\n Indeed, there are many stories from Ottawa that signal the country\u2019s mismanagement. Apart from airports and passports, in the last month there have been two significant news stories unfolding that go beyond mere inconvenience and speak directly to the devolution of the country. In both instances, PM Trudeau and his PMO operatives are at the centre marshalling the policy decision and government action.<\/p>\n In mid-July an international news story broke in Moscow that Canada was returning a repaired turbine to Russia for its Nord Stream gas pipeline. This news reverberated around the world as the surprise shipment violates the free-world\u2019s sanctions of Vladimir Putin in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. It was initially reported that Canada\u2019s actions occurred without knowledge of its allies, including besieged Ukraine. In fact, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told PM Trudeau directly, \u201cUkrainians will never accept Canada\u2019s decision regarding the Nord Stream turbine.\u201d<\/p>\n Since, Trudeau cabinet ministers have rationalized it was a hard decision that was made to remove the threat by Russia to turn off its flow of gas to Europe. PM Trudeau made the final decision (without any parliamentarian discussions) as a result of private conversations he held with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the recent G7 Summit. Still, it seems unconscionable that the Canadian PM made his decision while Russian missiles were killing civilians in the bombing of apartment buildings and a shopping centre.<\/p>\n Yet, this is just the last inexplicable foreign policy move for the Trudeau government. There has been no consistent Canadian foreign policy with quizzical stances taken on failing to call out Uyghur slavery, silence concerning democracy in Hong Kong, the abandonment of Afghanistan, the secret Canadian-Sino virus research project in Winnipeg, etc. For a country that has no ability to defend its borders or people, does it not appear to be dangerously brash for the PM to be continuously undermining the Canada\u2019s international relations and allies\u2019 trust?<\/p>\n The second damaging story from Ottawa, being revealed at a parliamentary committee, is the travesty of Canadian law that took place in the public inquiry into the horrific Nova Scotia mass shootings. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was called out by senior RCMP officers for making a promise to the PMO and public safety minister Bill Blair that the RCMP would make public certain firearms information about the Nova Scotia massacres to tie it to the government\u2019s new gun control legislation. In essence, Commissioner Lucki was directing the RCMP investigators to shill for Trudeau\u2019s gun control agenda.<\/p>\n Commissioner Lucki contests this accusation, as well as the fact that she reprimanded senior Nova Scotia Officer Darren Campbell for his unwillingness to play to the PMO script. This drama is playing itself out in Ottawa right now and MPs are left to decipher the facts from the conflicting accounts: on one hand there is the decorated, career RCMP commanding officer and, on the other, Justin Trudeau\u2019s handpicked commissioner and his lackey public safety minister.<\/p>\n But it seems Canadians have no interest in news on the corruption of Canada\u2019s justice system \u2013 likely because it has been a recurring theme of the Trudeau government since it took office. There was the PMO-led attack on the reputation of Vice Admiral Mark Norman and the intense pressuring of then Justice Minister Jody Wilson Raybould for SNC Lavalin favours. There\u2019s been repeated stories involving named judges selected from Liberal donor lists.<\/p>\n And is it not disconcerting that our ethically challenged PM (Trudeau has been charged three times for violating the country\u2019s ethics laws) sets the tone for his government? Does this not beg the question, if our PM and his government are above the law, what does it say for the country\u2019s justice system?<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau gets a haircut and makes a week\u2019s worth of headlines jetting cross-country on a photo-op campaign. From one coast to another, and one BC town to another, Trudeau mugs with kids, and lectures Canadians about reducing their carbon emissions. The PMO staff is again successfully changing the channel\u2026 if only it weren\u2019t for that rank, fishy smell.<\/p>\n Chris George<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n