Jagmeet Thinks Canadians Are Too Stupid To Know He's Lying

On His Latest Lies

Either he’s an idiot, or he thinks we all are.

Jagmeet Singh’s come out with another useless, performative piece of social media content, this time saying that Justin Trudeau “hasn't followed up on his promises” on health care, and calling on the PM to “Get more health care professionals trained and working. Respect them with better pay and conditions.”

Of course, Justin Trudeau has the same authority to do those things as I do – although, I was gonna say than I do or my readers, but given that some of my readers are actually nurses, they probably have more authority on at least the first part of that sentence than Trudeau does. Nurses are educated provincially, they’re accredited provincially, and they’re paid for provincially. If you want to get mad at the way that immigrant qualifications are ported over, that’s a provincial issue for how they handle foreign qualifications at the accreditation stage.

This isn’t new and it’s not the first time Jagmeet has made an utter ass out of himself on the slight issue of jurisdiction, but something became very clear to me earlier today – either Jagmeet Singh is too stupid to know that Doug Ford and Francois Legault are responsible for nursing shortages and wages, or he knows what he’s saying is intellectual drivel and intentionally dishonest, and he thinks it’s fine because Canadians are too stupid to realize it.

And frankly, I don’t really give a fuck which, because he has shown us once again why he is a fundamentally unserious person who needs to leave immediately and never come back into public life.

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In 2015, Tom Mulcair won 28 seats in English Canada, and was shortly thereafter deposed as NDP leader for the sin of not being electorally successful. I know New Democrats will say that he was deposed because he was too centrist, but if he had won 70 seats total and deprived the Liberals of a majority he would have easily been retained leader and anyone who genuinely disagrees with that is living in delusion.

What happened between 2015 and 2019 is that the Bloc gained 22 seats and the Conservatives gained a bunch so now the Liberals don’t have a majority. Let’s be very clear – the NDP have the balance of power now not because they made ground, but because other parties gained seats. Again, remember that 28 seats in English Canada benchmark that did in Mulcair? Jagmeet won 23 in 2019 and 24 in 2021, but because the Bloc rallied back in 2021, Jagmeet is somehow still in the job.

If you’ve read this site long enough you’ll know all of this, because it’s not the first time I’ve written it and frankly it probably won’t be the last. I voted NDP in 2021 and strongly believe that the Liberals need a left wing opposition to get the best out of it. I do subscribe to the partially true, partially mythmaking idea that most good modern Liberal ideas originated from the NDP and their effect on the public, and I was ecstatic when Jack Layton won in 2011 and I cried when he passed.

The NDP are, at its core, a good part of the political furniture, and those who think they aren’t are blinded by partisanship to the good they’ve done. My anger at Jagmeet doesn’t come from the place many in the NDP think – it’s not Liberal anger about the fact that they take “Liberal votes” or that I don’t want a more redistributive state, it’s that I consider the NDP to an important institution worth protecting. And right now, they’re lead by an unserious chucklefuck who is beneath the party he leads.

Jagmeet has always been willing to say things that were not true – like when he spent the 2021 campaign trying to pretend that he might support an Erin O’Toole-led government over a Justin Trudeau-led one if the math was such that he was in a position to decide the government. It was vacuous bullshit from the second he said it, but he held the line, and did so in spite of the fact that he had said he couldn’t support the CPC in 2019. Since then, he has taken to his favourite new habit, of speaking so much venom and ill of a government he is actively supporting, and saying that they and the Conservatives are functionally indistinguishable. Him attacking Justin Trudeau for the Premiers’ choices around staffing and wages is just the latest in his habit of acting like the electorate are idiots, because I just fundamentally refuse to believe one of our national party leaders is too stupid to know that Doug Ford is the one who signed Bill 124.

Jagmeet is lying to us, which, fine, everyone does, but he is not just doing that, he is actively relying on Canadians being too stupid to notice that he’s demanding something of Trudeau that Trudeau has no ability to deliver. Jagmeet has an arrogance about the details of Canadian life the only parallel for would be Patriots fans at the peak of Tom Brady’s time there. Talk to any Pats fan in those years, and there was always a quiet confidence – or, knowing they’re all from Boston, loud confidence – that everything would just work out because it would work out.

In the same way, Jagmeet’s public persona is that of someone who thinks Canada is a unitary state that thinks that all these things are the responsibility of the Feds. Jagmeet comes across like he is under the distinct impression that if the Feds want something badly enough they can wave a magic wand and get it done, as if the Feds somehow have a veto or an override on what the provinces do.

The thing is, that’s not how this works. I had to pick up a gift I had ordered, and when I went to give them my ID, it was an Ontario health card I showed, not a fucking Canadian one. It is not on Justin Trudeau to take the blame for Doug Ford’s (and yes, let’s be honest, this is about Doug Ford, whether Jagmeet says so explicitly or not) horrible decisions. And pretending that it is is playing us for fools.

Jagmeet’s current political strategy is to assume that Canadians are too stupid to notice that he is playing politics with what he describes as a national crisis. His whole strategy is assuming that we are too dumb and too ill-informed to know basics about who runs health care and who decides how much of a raise to give to nurses and doctors. His best case scenario is that the Liberals get punished for the shit behaviour of Conservative premiers and that the Liberals are weakened electorally, which would of course jeopardize the child care deals and end the rollout of dental care and pharma.

Jagmeet is either too stupid to know how this country works at a basic level or is betting his entire political strategy that Canadians are too stupid to notice he’s lying.

Please God end my suffering and let this fraud be not long in his job.