A Surprisingly Good Start

Since last month’s Dominion election, Blofeld, who has succeeded Captain Airhead as both leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister of Canada, has made it very difficult for me to maintain my intense dislike of him.  Difficult, but not impossible.  He is, after all, the worst kind of banker, someone with a track record of supporting the same sort of goofy environmental and social causes as his predecessor, and worst of all, a Grit.  However, his reversal of the Liberal Party’s previous practice of urinating all over Canada’s Loyalist roots and heritage is much to be appreciated.  The decision to arrange for His Majesty, King Charles III to deliver the throne speech opening the forty-fifth Parliament in person was a wonderful move which I wholeheartedly applaud.

 

Of course I am not holding my breath in anticipation of Blofeld’s re-criminalizing or even placing restrictions on abortion, abolishing MAID, re-orienting government policy towards a firm defense of parental rights against deranged educators who think their calling is to teach children to be ashamed of Canada and her history, hate white people, and choose their own gender or a firm defense of law-abiding Canadians and their property against violent criminals, abandoning the failed harms reduction approach to drug abuse in favour of a sane prevention based approach, jettisoning the vile government policy that has been in place under both Liberal and Conservative governments since the first Trudeau premiership of tolerating or at time encouraging hatred towards specific groups – males, heterosexuals, people who identify as their actual sex, whites, Christians, and above all the combination of these – while protecting other groups – basically everyone else - from even having their feelings hurt by words they find offensive, or anything else of this sort.   

 

To be fair, had the Conservatives won, I would not have expected them to do many of these things either.  Evelyn Waugh said once that he was giving up voting because he had been voting Conservative for years and they failed to turn the clock back even a second.  The Canadian version of the party has not been any different, at least in my lifetime.  They have long ago forgotten what they are supposed to be for.  Earlier this week, when former leader Andrew Scheer was named interim leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition until the party’s actual leader can return to the House via by-election, he said “The Conservative Party is the party of free trade.”  That would have come as news to Sir John A. Macdonald, the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, and basically every Conservative prime minister prior to Brian Mulroney.

 

This Tuesday Blofeld met with Krasnov the Orange, who after fulfilling the prophecy of the wounded head of the beast last year became president of the United States for the second time.  Krasnov is the second Communist agent to have infiltrated the White House by means of the Republican party.  The first was Dwight Eisenhower, who in World War II sabotaged the Western forces so that Stalin’s could reach Berlin first, forcibly repatriated thousands of people who had fled Soviet tyranny and, most likely, had George Patton murdered to prevent exposure of his crimes.  Krasnov defended his obvious calls to make Canada the fifty-first state by talking about how it looked to him as a real estate developer which, of course, was what he was doing back before he became a television star.  Blofeld’s response, pointing out that “there are some places that are never for sale” and that Canada “is not for sale.  It won’t be for sale ever” was most appropriate.  Krasnov told him “never say never” and he replied that Canadians would not be changing their minds.

 

Was Krasnov’s “never say never” remark a James Bond reference?  It is one word short of the title of the 1983 Irvin Kershner directed remake of Thunderball. The Blofeld our new prime minister resembles, however, is Christoph Waltz who portrayed the character in Spectre (2015) and No Time To Die (2021), the only actor to portray him twice.  The Blofeld in Never Say Never Again was Max von Syndow, the Swedish actor who crossed over to the American film industry after making a name for himself in the films of Ingmar Bergman, by portraying our Lord in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) in which two other then-future Blofelds appear - Donald Pleasence from You Only Live Twice (1967) portraying the devil and Telly Savalas from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) portraying Pontius Pilate.  Apparently Krasnov can’t keep his Blofelds straight.

 

Is Krasnov’s latest proposal, a 100% tariff on non-American films, a by-product of his ignorance of the basics of James Bond filmography?  That would make as much sense as his stated reasons for any of the other things he has done since regaining the White House.  In this case, I welcome his proposal.  If he goes through with it, other countries will be prompted to respond with retaliatory tariffs on American-made films.  Limiting the influence of Hollywood can only be a good thing.

 

Back to Blofeld, so far he has been doing much better as prime minister than I expected, although with as low expectations as I had that isn’t saying much.  Still, with His Majesty coming, for the first time in ages I am looking forward to an opening rather than a dissolution of Parliament.

God Save the King!