When voting does not matter

In the last Federal election 85% of Canadians voted for either the Liberals or Conservatives.  The major election issue was trade relations with the United States.  Both parties promised a deal with the US.  So only months ago 85% of Canadians let it be known that they wanted a deal with the US.  What they got instead was a 100-year deal with Ukraine.

Mark Carney sold himself as the man who could get a deal with Donald Trump.  Canadians gave him a clear mandate to do just that.  I can’t think of another Canadian political issue in my lifetime that had 85% support.  Yet when it came time to sign a deal Mark Carney walked away and then lied about why he would not do exactly what Canadians elected him to do.

Shortly after refusing to do what he was hired to do Mark Carney hopped on a plane to take a taxpayer funded holiday in Italy.  He got back, lectured Canadians about the need to vacation at home.  And then, I guess, to prove his point he flew off for another taxpayer funded Vacation in Banff Alberta.  He did however take time to give another 2.5 billion to the Ukraine without asking if Canadians wanted to incur more debt to finance a war that has nothing to do with Canada.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney is urging Canadians to vacation at home and “send a message” amid the trade war with the United States, weeks after taking his own summer holiday in Italy.

 

Let them eat nothing while Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet dine out on the finest the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel serves.

What kind of employee refuses to do his job, spends money without approval, and then jets off for two luxury vacations on the company credit card?  How did it come to this and why do Canadians put up with it?

In theory Canada is a representative democracy.  We elect representatives to carry out the will of the people but that is not happening.  Canadians told Mark Carney what they wanted.  Instead, he ignores their wishes and pursues his own agenda.  Canada is proof that the simple act of voting does not make a country democratic. I don’t know what you call Canada, but the word democracy does not spring to mind.