Election 2025: What went wrong and the road ahead

Update: Perhaps Pierre Poilievre should resign

As CBC pointed out, last December Pierre Poilievre had a 30 point lead. So what happened? Wait 'till I tell ye. The CBC broadcast said sure the Trump effect was part of it, then listed some other lame unrelated reasons. The Trump effect was all of it and before I explain why I'll share a story and use it as an analogy to chart the road ahead.

Once upon a time I had another big court case. It went to mediation and I thought it was going to be easy because I knew the mediator. It was not. It was a down and dirty struggle every step of the way. The other party's lawyer submitted their mediation brief. It was anything but, brief. 

That's when I lost my sh*t. Their lawyer had repeated all the ridiculous lies in their initial application which I had already exposed. That means he repeated them knowing they were lies. At that point I completely lost any respect I had for their lawyer. 

The mediator at the time was a partner in the biggest law firm on the planet. We were supposed to meet at his fancy office Downtown Vancouver overlooking Stanley park, the Lion's gate bridge and the ocean. When I read that opposition brief I was very angry. I said I'm not sitting down with that lying POS. This isn't going to be settled in one meeting. We're going to have to fight it out clause by clause through email.

In fact before we got to that point, I was so upset I wrote back and said I'm out. Mediation is over. Let's go to trial. Not only did he repeat the same lies he made in the initial insane application, every word of his agreement was a trick and a trap. He was not bargaining in good faith. The mediator sprung into action to keep me at the table. 

He said I'll make sure it's OK for you. Yea?! I said. Well that agreement is not OK for me. Every clause is a trick and a trap with insane ramifications. He knew it and so did I. That's why I refused to sign it. So the mediator calls up the other lawyer who he knew and said OK if you guys want to settle, you're going to have to dial it back a bit. Remember that line. That's the allegory for the road ahead. 

Then before he goes through the contract with me over the phone he said I know Scott. He's good at what he does. I'm confident he'll be able to convince a judge of this, this and that. I pause as I try to calm down enough to speak. I said you're right. He probably could BUT IT's NOT TRUE. 

That's why I was so upset. The other lawyer was willing to use his legal expertise to convince a judge of something that was not true. So we went through the contract clause by clause. I think you should push back here but I think you should give in here. Over and over. Each time I was like grrr, grrr. 

I had a demand that was really important to me. I kept hanging onto it and refused to let it go. Then I could see where we were at. We had basically agreed on every single clause except for my special demand. Then I realized if I gave that demand up, we'd have an agreement so I did and the agreement became binding. From this analogy, I have two points. Sometimes we have to dial it back and sometimes we have to make sacrifices. We have to give something up to get something in return.

Now Back to the Election, What went wrong?

Four months ago Pierre Poilievre had a 30 point lead. So what happened? Something did and I can tell you what it was. Donald Trump got carried away. He went too far right. 

He wanted to centralize all the parliamentary power into one person. Then he started spewing off crazy ideas without having a vote on them. That legitimately scared a lot of people in Canada. Donald Trump single handedly stopped the blue wave in Canada dead in it's tracks. That's what happened.

Trump Zombies take offense to that fact and rush for other scapegoats. It's the fake news' fault. No it's not. That clown was posing with Christia Freeland bragging about how he and her are BFFs. Everyone who voted for him new he didn't represent change. They were simply afraid of the crazy extremism they saw coming out of Trump 2.0. They weren't afraid of Trump 1.0. Trump 2.0 was the straw that broke the camel's back. 

Trade wars, wanting to take over Canada and invade Greenland. Wanting to kick out all the Palestinians out of Gaza and build casinos and a golden stature of himself on the graves of dead Palestinian children. That was insane.

Then the blind denial of the Trump Zombies who refused to see any flaw in some of his completely outrageous quests. That scared people. The ICE prisons, arresting tourists, sending people to a horrific prison for MS 13 in El Salvador without a trial. That scared people. 

Hunting down immigrants working to support their families. That was extreme. A lot of Canadians didn't want that. In fact the blind hate for migrants was a game changer. 

There are a lot of immigrants in Canada. You can't build a progressive platform based on immigrant hate. Immigrants aren't going to vote for it and we have more immigrants every year so if you defiantly hold on to that platform your party will be damned. It won't grow. It's progression will be stopped and our chance at combating the far left's insanity will be dead in the water. It's like the monkey trap.

Someone puts a glass jar in a tree with a banana in it. The monkey can get his hand in the jar but when he grabs the banana his hand won't fit through the opening. Since the monkey refuses to let go of the banana he becomes trapped. Obviously it's an allegory like the boiling frog syndrome but it has merit. 

If the far right can't let go of their migrant hate, the fight against the far left will die and we will all become slaves. That means if we want to stop grooming of children and insane spending leading to uncontrolled deficits we're going too have to let go of the banana. We're going to have to dial it back a bit if we want to settle or in this case form parliament. 

Here are the numbers. A $62 billion deficit for a single year is completely unacceptable. Everyone knows that. If we lose the migrant hate we can deal with that and save the country. Here's the solution. If migrants want to work let them. 

The problem is paying migrants not to work. That is the problem. If we are willing to make that distinction we can address it. If we can't make that distinction, those clowns will spend the country into bankruptcy so they can justify their New World Order of Universal slavery.

So once again we see the pendulum swing from left to right. The further you go to the left or the right, the more supporters will drop off until the pendulum starts to swing back the other way. That is natural justice. Let's hear more from Leslyn Lewis.