The Absurdities of Entitlement Conspiracies

The Liberal Party of Canada has fallen so low even in its own estimation of where it stands in the esteem of the public that it looks about everywhere it can for symptoms signalling yet another low-down Conservative-led conspiracy to make it look even worse in the public eye. Little realizing that it is their own feeble, unconvincing presence, its absurdly plaintive accusations against the Conservative-led government that results in their appearing insipidly unprepared to once again take up the governance of the country.

Liberal members of Parliament are so busy attacking every government initiative that is brought forward, that they look like human windmills, battling the reality of a government that is not Liberal, making a success of the administration of Canada's internal and external affairs. Given the circumstances weighing on the country in a flailing global economy and a critical NATO-led counter-insurgency, along with the current necessity to stem the tide of rising pandemic fear, the government is performing as well as can be expected.

It has, in fact, earned the respect of a far greater number of voters than has the official opposition and their leader. That same leader who vowed so recklessly that he would undertake, at each and every opportunity to take down this minority government, in reflection of his opinion that it was time to change. In direct opposition to the voting public's perception that the change they required took place when the Liberals left the PMO, and the Conservatives arrived to moderate Canadian affairs.

The Liberals are so desperate they find conspiracies even in the current torch relay celebrations leading up to the Winter Olympics. Insisting that even on this occasion, the Conservatives have writ their logo large and bright by monopolizing all the celebrated stops along the route delivering the Olympic frame, cross-country. Central Toronto, a Liberal stronghold, has a mere single torch relay event - in an NDP riding. Winnipeg, dominated by the Liberals, has been by-passed for a stop in an outskirt Conservative riding.

Maxime Bernier's riding somehow rates a two-day, three-stop gold medal. What's this? Stephen Harper's Calgary riding has been by-passed? And the riding that has six events over a four-day period in the northwest wilderness of British Columbia is in a NDP stronghold? Yes, but Halifax gets not even one stop inside its Liberal/NDP circumference. It's a dark plot indeed, yet another indelible indication that those dastardly Conservatives are sopping up all the public glory.

Funny thing that; the process of selecting celebratory locations, initiated before the Conservatives came to power, and under a Liberal-led government, was meant to reflect no political involvement. VANOC staff consulted primarily with local organizers to select locations able to handle crowds and the staging of each of these events. The seeming preponderance of stops in Conservative-held ridings has a simple explanation.

It's rural voters largely throughout Canada, who tend to vote Conservative, while the Liberals mop up more expansively in urban areas. Because of the large rural ridings, more stops are required, reflecting the size of the geography, as opposed to the density of the urban landscape. Ah, so!