FELDSTED: We cannot continue a representative contract with a gigolo government that has been bought by and caters to its primary financial supporters

Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

You have betrayed us. Your affair with SNC Lavalin is incompatible with your vow to serve and protect the people of Canada. Our covenant is shattered.

We are, herewith, serving notice of our petition for divorce. We have ample grounds for a formal end to our relationship. You are a promiscuous cad dancing with whoever will pay you well. You are true to no one, lest of all to yourself.

Your efforts to hide your affair with Lavalin are in vain. You stepped over a line. We value our independent justice system free from political interference. You are unconcerned over having brought us the disease of political interference in justice; the roots of tyranny.

Your dalliance with the United Nations is unseemly. It is 25 years since the Rwandan genocide. Canada was there. Despite urgent pleas for intervention to prevent the carnage, the United Nations failed to respond and over 800,000 Tutsi Rwandans were murdered. That is when the United Nations earned the title of Useless Nations.

Your efforts to write the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian law is an abdication of your responsibility to Canadians. Reconciliation is an effort to mediate a system of laws and jurisdiction that is acceptable to all.

Canada voted against adoption of the UN declaration when it was introduced. The UN Declaration is not legally binding. Introducing this legislation will drive a wedge into reconciliation negotiations. We cannot have separate rights legislation for indigenous and non-indigenous people without destroying reconciliation.

Your blind adherence to combating climate change is irrational and unreasonable.

To quote your Environment minister: “With all projects, we take into account the emissions, and we make decisions based on science, evidence and facts, and when it comes to all projects, they also need to fit in with our climate plan—and they need to take into account those emissions.”

You have done nothing to verify science, evidence and facts presented to support climate change other than parrot the IPCC. Stuffing our approach to climate change into the IPCC framework is not evidence-based decision making. It is fraud.

Your environmental legislation is a disguise for blocking needed pipeline infrastructure and refineries needed to make Canada an independent petroleum producer and exporter. The damage to our economy, entrepreneur confidence and investment is enormous. Canada is no longer regarded as a good place in which to do business. Pandering to your elite donors entails a very high price for all residents.

We recognize your recent efforts to divert attention from your Lavalin affair as what they are – distractions:

• Threatening to sue to Opposition leader Andrew Scheer for false statements;
• Giving $ 10 million to $ billionaire Loblaws to improve refrigerators; and
• Suggesting that all conservatives are latent alt-right racists.

We are not distracted. The Lavalin affair has exposed the greedy group of interrelated corporate interests who exercise control over government policy. The link between Lavalin and Trans Mountain is disconcerting. The primary lawyer for Lavalin has been dispatched to negotiate/bribe indigenous bands to allow construction of the Trans Mountain expansion. What is in that for Lavalin and your party?

We note that you remain true to form in extending equalization payments to provinces until 2024 in the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1 (Bill C-74). This obvious pandering to the Quebec Region at the expense of the other three regions of Canada and violation of the spirit of Constitution Section 36 is another substantive support for our petition for divorce.

We will not accept unilateral federal dictates. Provincial interests still matter.

We cannot continue a representative contract with a gigolo government that has been bought by and caters to its primary financial supporters.

Consider yourself served with notice. We deserve better.          

John Feldsted

Political Consultant & Strategist

Winnipeg, Manitoba