Singh's Treason Fever Failure

On Singh's Recklessness

They’re just not good enough to win this year.

Thursday night was a clarifying night for the Edmonton Oilers - losing Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, their season is functionally over. They might win a game, they might not, and frankly I neither know nor care which happens. I’ve been on the Oilers bandwagon this year, not out of any affection for the Oilers but because I really like watching Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl play hockey together. I get romantic about hockey, even as I try to be pragmatic. I can’t help myself, but Thursday made it clear. They’re not good enough this year. If the reports are true, the team’ll re-up Connor and Leon and they’ll get one eventually. I really hope they do.

I thought I’d be more upset, but I’m not. The simple clarity of the revealed truth was refreshing - there’s no ambiguity, no uncertainty, and no doubt. Who is to blame and what to do next matters, but it pales in comparison to this basic truth. And that’s all I can think about when it comes to Jagmeet Singh. I’ve been mad at Jagmeet for years now, ever since he failed to take advantage of the 2021 election and left his party millions in debt, all to gain precisely one (1) net gain, in an election where the Liberals had no purpose for calling the election and the Opposition leader spent his time at a studio in Ottawa. And now? I’m done being mad, because at the end of the day he’s not worth being mad at.

Jagmeet held a press conference this week rebutting Elizabeth May, saying there are MPs who have broken the law, and responded in the affirmative to the idea there are traitors in Parliament. He then had staff walk back that his statements confirmed or denied that current MPs had done what he plainly said they had. Now, an inartful statement that’s cleaned up by staff isn’t a crime, though it’s very bad to be unclear about whether you’re accusing colleagues of treason, but let’s ignore that. If Jagmeet Singh thinks there are traitors in the Parliament right now, he has Parliamentary privilege and could walk into the House anytime it’s sitting and name any and all dirty, treasonous MPs with complete legal impunity. Parliamentary privilege exists for a moment for this, to say in the People’s House the truth, unburdened by anything else. And he didn’t.

So either Jagmeet Singh thinks there are traitors in the House and didn’t think it important enough to tell us who they are, or he lied to us in his press conference to make the major parties look bad. At that same presser, he attacked Justin Trudeau for not taking this issue seriously enough; at the same time, he denied he’d bring the government down over this. Again, taking Jagmeet at his own word, either Justin Trudeau is willfully abetting treasonous behaviour and you’re propping him up to do it, or you’re willfully lying to accuse your PM and your partner who you are giving votes to every week in the House for political advantage.

Either way, Jagmeet has to go. Either way, there’s no saving this useless piece of shit who masquerades as a political leader. He is either also abetting treason by leaving Trudeau in office, or he’s willing to lie to Canadians about treason occuring for political gain. No matter how you slice it, he is beneath contempt, a failure of a leader selling a fraudulent version of events, lying to this country when we need the truth more than ever. He attacks Pierre Poilievre for not reading the report, a supposedly “disqualifying” act, while he either fails to understand or hopes we’re too stupid to understand that he’s selling us all a bill of goods. Singh wants Poilievre to stop playing politics while he sings another chorus and verse of Liberal, Tory Same Old Story for the cameras. He is everything he claims to hate about Poilievre, a liar, a lifelong politician, and a cancer to our politics. To paraphrase David Cameron, it might be in the Liberal Party’s interest for Jagmeet to stay as leader, but it’s not in the national interest.

Singh has been a punching bag in these pages, and there’s a reason I’ve laid off in recent months. It’s easy to find 1000 words on his latest dumbass flight of fancy or terrible quote, but he is fundamentally a bit player in the saga that is Canadian politics most days and his party is going to be cut in half at the next election. Spending my time sharpening knives just to get some RTs from Liberals who find Jagmeet annoying isn’t worth it in the same way it once was. But this is crossing a line. It’s crossing about a dozen, but there is a fundamental breach here.

I’m sure that there’s not actually that much between May and Jagmeet’s reads of the intelligence in a sense. What seems to have happened is Singh finds parts of the story more objectionable - or at least more plainly illegal, as opposed to merely objectionable - than May does. It’s a credible opinion, and maybe even the right one, I can’t say. But what I do know is that one of them played politics in their press conference and one didn’t. One saw this as an opportunity to explain something to the public and one saw it as an opportunity to play his greatest hits. One stepped up and one showed their need to step aside. One served their country admirably this week, and one failed it.

I don’t know what’s in the report any more than anyone else does. I have a guess, and I wrote it earlier this week. Maybe I’m an idiot, I don’t know. But what I do know is that Jagmeet Singh has made this country worse off for his intervention this week. I do know that Jagmeet served to divide and conquer for partisan benefit when we need statesmen and not partisans. And I know that we have long passed the point where Jagmeet is making this country a better place.

He is either abetting Trudeau in covering up treason by leaving him in power, or his attack on Trudeau is a lie. He is either a traitor for enabling this behaviour or he’s willing to whip up treason fever for votes. Either way, Canada will be better off without Jagmeet in the Commons, or public life of any kind. And in the sea of things we don’t know about Foreign Interference, this is the most clear thing in the world.