Jagmeet. His Jug is empty

Jagmeet Singh will probably win in Burnaby. 

He shouldn't, of course.  

But the Liberals have handed him the seat through sheer ineptitude. First, by delaying the election, which looked just mean-spirited, further undermining GoldenBoy Trudeau's sunny, shiny image. Then,  by fielding Karen Wang who really wasn't much of a candidate in the first place, a recycled, failed local Liberal, but (like Justin) photogenic. Finally by dumping her when polls looked bad --on the excuse of...wait for it racism? 

Racism? Really? Her assistant tweeted (in Chinese) on Chinese social media (WeChat) that if all the local Chinese voted for her she could win because she was running against an Indian (Sikh) recalling the historic rivalry between Chinese and Indians, which still exists today and the fact that local Chinese outnumber the Sikhs.  That is not exactly "racist": it is just acknowledgement of the fact of ethnic competition in a multi-ethnic community.  Of course, the Liberals chose a Chinese because Jagmeet is being touted as a "person of color", which he isn't technically. And the Liberals wanted to out-PC, the very PC NDP. Run "left"; govern "right".

 In any case, Poor Karen got dumped.  Jagmeet had nothing to say -- typically.  He could have been a Mensch shown a bit of principle and said something supportive as in, "Ah shucks she didn't really mean it, we are all one here" the kind of thing he did a long time ago when he was accused of being a Muslim.  The Kumbaya Theme-- which won him instant acclaim. 

Nope. Jug was jugheaded. And when it comes down to it, not all that principled.

The Liberals went on to put in another Chinese candidate. Yup. Chinese agin the Indians. Well, Sikhs.

Not to be outdone, the Conservatives added their Chinese candidate. And an Chinese independent jumped in too. Oh yes, PC. In the meantime, Meng Wanzhou faces extradition. 

Ethnicity matters a lot in Canada.  We support NeoNazis in the Ukraine because of the Ukrainian diaspora.  And don't forget the whole French / English thing.

So,  many Chinese will vote Chinese.  Only this vote will be now be split three ways.

Ergo, Jagmeet wins.

In the meantime, Jagmeet continues to show he either lacks lacks progressive principles --or maybe just guts with respect to foreign policy.  It's all about appearances.  Are Canadians this shallow.  The Liberals, NDP and Conservatives apparently think so.

Jagmeet?  Trudeau with beard and turban. Scheer?  Trudeau with suit and tie.

Most recently, all three parties have signed on to American regime change in Venezuela, the putsch to replace the authentically elected Maduro with the unelected Guaido,  a man 80% of Venezuelans don't know.  Did Hitler actually win WWII?  No. But we didn't learn anything did we?