Johnston as GG is far sicker than Jaffer-Guergis or any of the rest, and if you don't get that, you are a gros colon, lost in complacency, without ethics, or principle, while your parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy drain away, quietly, politely, but meaningfully, leaving nothing but empty chatterers, all talk, no thought. Appointing a "sound Tory" who one year ago allowed the Cons to escape the greatest scandal in Canadian political history through some cunning political prestidigitation is a scandal, politicising the office of GG for services rendered as never before, and there should even be the slightest appearance of bias in such an appointment. A shower. And one in which frivolous numbskulls are complicit: "what nice grandkids" (the old Caroline Mulroney defence). And no amount of groupthink "he's a nice chap" BS can change that. He might have been an excellent choice if he had never served this govt so politically, in the most explosive matter imaginable. But he did, JUST A YEAR AGO, and now he's GG?
BS. And y'all know it.
For monarchists, a terrible choice. For republicans, a coup. Whatever he does, whether he's right or wrong, will always be seen through prism of his BS Terms of Reference. Rightly. And that whole thing, as with Manley Afghan thing was BS, and only shocking lack of self-respect and weakness of LPC, with perhaps a soupcon of elite accomodation, permitted what were scandalous perversions of public debate and democratic practices.
Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves for tugging your forelocks. The instinctive submission to monarchy and authority is alive and well, I see.
It's odd, it's always the most ardent monarchists, like EFL, who are such for rational reasons, who are the most immune to and skeptical of these instincts of self-abasements, being inured to them through their own grounded monarchical beliefs. It's the wannabe cool kids who always lose their heads, and forget first principles: it's about institutions, not individuals.
Anyway, lost cause, I see. Vive la République? Non!
Whatever he does, which one could otherwise consider good or bad on the merits, it is all tainted by his role as useful puppet coming up with the most bad faith stupid terms of reference for an inquiry, as part of a whole carefully contrived bad faith coverup, to avoid finding out the answers to the real questions about CSU-Schreiber and corruption of Cdn politics at the highest levels. Johnston was a willing, nay enthusiastic, tool of the govt's escape strategy, which actually pleased a lot of our elite because everyone's scared of that stuff, on all sides. And this is not ancient history: he did Harper's bidding scant months ago!
If he'd never done it, he might be OK. But he did, so he isn't. One can't look beyond that reality to assume he'll be great because of x,y,and z, down the line, hypothetically. You must judge on the here and now, and how that taints the whole thing. And it does, unless one is deaf, dumb and blind.
This is when Canada most exasperates me, this voluntary collective suspension of critical faculties. This is why the fix is in everywhere. This is why I would tell people for years about Clarke's intentional attack on Kharlamov and refer folk to books where Sinden and Clarke etc. talked about it, praising themselves, and people would absolutely refuse to believe it, refuse to read the books. It's only recently, with the CBC series really, that people have faced up to a reality they knew, at some level, but didn't want to acknowledge. It's this "I'm all right, you're all right Jack", attitude that leads to corruption, and "Tim Horton's Govt" and the cancellation of any meaningful census - the census!
No you're right, just have another Blue and hotdog. Play some G'nR. Give 'er. Ferget it.
The leadership of one of our two major parties, and hence subsequent govt, was bought and paid for by Bavarian "Christian Democrats" (check their histories 1933-1945 - they were enthusiastic members of another party, and maintain(ed) those attitudes) and sleazy businessmen, large and small. And Johnston played a, nay, probably THE, crucial role in killing off our last chance of a decent inquiry...and all were happy, 'cause it's all dirty and so long ago, and anyways, those fellers were basically good guys, eh? BS. BS. BS.
If Johnston was such a great choice for such positions, what of his (cough) "judgment" in Mulroney-Schreiber? But he's a law professor? He's this, he's that - well then he should have known better, all the more, no?
God, I wish Richler was around, he'd rip y'all to shreds. Reread how Barney gets his son off charges in QC by donating to Judge's sister's church fund. That's Canada, top to bottom, for those with the wit to see, hear and understand.
There are 2 possibilities:
either Johnston is sentient, in which case, given CV, he knowingly played the knave's part, setting terms of reference that saved most of our great and good from embarrassment, and ghot away with it because he was clothed in fine robes, or;
he is a simple fool, despite his CV, and genuinely thought that there was no need to actually figure out what it was all about.
If he's the first, he's too much of a knave to be GG, and if he's the 2nd, he's too much of a fool. Either way, too associated with vital dirty political services to govt of day. You can wrap crap in roses, it's still crap.
I do Johnston the compliment of thinking him sentient, and thus his courtiership in Mulroney-Schreiber utter knavery. You are free to believe him a simple well-meaning fool. More fool you. But either way, given his recent association to this govt, NO DECENT GG!
But of course, I forget myself, Clarke never slashed Kharlamov, our soldiers were never infamous for shooting their POWs in Boer War, WWI, WW2, Korea, and there was nothing untoward about overthrow of Joe Clark, nor subsequent profit his political assassins made. This is Canada. Just have another Blue, play some Hip. Maaaaan.
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