AFGHANISTAN

Trudeau's Waterloo?

When Trudeau launched Canada's Federal Election Campaign just short days ago, the very same day, the Taliban conquered Kabul and the whole of Afghanistan lay at their feet.

Up to that point, Trudeau and his Liberal Party were in line for a majority government come election day on September 20th. The only real issue standing in their way was that he had called the Election in the 4th Wave of the Covid 19 (Delta) Pandemic.  But with the fall of Kabul, he now faces a much bigger obstacle in realizing his electoral dreams.

Those who had helped Canada during our time fighting there were now trapped like rats along with their families.  The writing had been on the wall for some time but the Trudeau Government did diddly to bring them safely here to Canada. It looked like a safe bet since the so-called experts predicted the Fall but believed the timing was months away rather than mere hours. In other words, Trudeau and his Brain Trust believed that the Election would be well and truly over by that time.  Now of course it is too late. 

So Trudeau has discovered, to his overwhelming dismay, that it is most difficult to brag about his supposed Government's successes while watching Afghans fall from Aeroplan's' under-carriages. 

If Trudeau was smart, which we know is not the case, he would have immediately ceased campaigning in the face of this human tragedy and devoted all of his time to getting our allies and their families out of this doomed nation.  

This will likely mean minority status for the Liberals and even possibly minority status for the Conservatives.  In essence though minority status for the Libs really will equate to majority territory since they can count on the suppliant New Democrats to support them come what may.  Conversely, even if the Tories squeak a minority - it would last but minutes in the scheme of things since those same Liberals and NDP'ers will gang up and use their combined majority to throw O'Toole and his crew out.

Canada has after all become a most Progressive Nation but sadly not in a 'Progressive' Conservative way.  

But there is something that surpasses Elections...Win or Lose and that concerns the needless loss of life and on both of these two counts ...the Virus and Afghanistan he has failed miserably.  He put his full trust in China developing an effective vaccine that they would share with Canada.  They quickly reneged... dooming many to death.  No apologies from Justin.  In the case of Afghanistan, our troops have been gone since 2014 and yet not a finger did Trudeau lift to get our domestic allies out of harm's way.  Now of course it is too late and once again - no apology given in the face of their death at the hands of these Taliban Monsters.  How the guy can sleep at night ...I simply do not know. 

As I See It...

K.D. Galagher

 

Hypocritic Oath

The other more well known Oath is the Hippocratic Oath wherein Physicians  pledge to prescribe only beneficial treatments, according to his or her abilities and judgment and to refrain from causing harm or hurt to their patient.

The Hypocritic Oath, in contrast, turns the above up-side-down and extends its blessing to eliminating the patient entirely from the face of this earth.

Sadly, the Medical Community has more or less acquiesced to what politicians in their conscious effort to reduce health care costs on the basis that dead people use up less resources than sick ones.  

Your Mother was once the Chair of West Ottawa Hospice while I was a Board Member.  The Principle of Hospice is to provide a special kind of care that focuses on the quality of life for people and their caregivers who are experiencing an advanced, life-limiting illness. Hospice Care provides compassionate care for people in the last phases of incurable disease so the they may live as fully and as a comfortable as possible including free of pain.

At that time, our Hospice was Home Delivered Care by a vast team of specially trained volunteers ...and since then it now includes actual Hospice Premises with beds.

The idea behind Hospice was to celebrate life and to act as a counter to MAID - Medical Assistance In Dying, with the latter now taking on a life of its own ...pardon the pun. Since the inception of MAID in Canada in 2016 some 14,000 have chosen death by medical suicide and those numbers are growing with each passing year.  And they no longer have to be near death to qualify for this life ending procedure - most are elderly but the young and the disabled are also included.

To add insult, Hospices are now losing their funding if they refuse to include MAID in their tool box of help.

In her recent and most insightful letter to an Editor, Doctor E. Warner had this to say about MAID:

The decision of our political leaders to solve our health care crisis by convincing the Canadian Public that murdering our most expensive citizens - the olde, the disabled and the chronically ill - is the sign of an enlightened, compassionate society is beyond egregious. It not only signals the impending collapse of our health-care system but heralds the moral collapse of our society as a whole. 

I end with Dylan Thomas' immortal words:

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We Will All Be Better Off For It.

As I See It...

K.D. Bell