He left Canada on an official government plane the other day to attend the G7 and NATO summits.
Today he is meeting with the G7 leaders and dealing with all kinds of big world issues.
But soon he may be boarding another kind of plane to campaign across our country.
It was an incredibly moving vigil, as thousands turned out to honour that murdered Muslim family in London, Ontario.
They came together to vow that they would not let hate win.
But nothing could soften the blow of that bestial terrorist act.
And nothing could excuse the murderous hypocrisy of the Cons.
As you may know Erin O'Toole has hired Boris Johnson's campaign team, the ones who made Johnson look like a nice guy, and won him a bloody majority.
And O'Toole is hoping they can do the same for him and his ugly Cons.
But sadly for him it's just not working out.
It's a Canadian tragedy that tells us so much about the country's past, and the murderous influence of religion.
One that tells us so much about those who could bury 215 native children in an unmarked grave as if they were less than human.
And now that we know more about this unforgivable horror story, it also tells us so much about the sickening hypocrisy of our bestial Cons.
In a recent post, I wrote about Erin O'Toole's astounding surge in an Abacus Poll, and I wondered whether that meant he could win the next election.
For it was quite a surge, and those numbers seemed to come out of nowhere.
But now I am feeling somewhat reassured.
For there is a new Abacus poll out, and I like what I see...
From the moment Erin O'Toole seized control of the Conservative party, I have watched his attack ads with a growing sense of horror, and revulsion.
Horror because of the way they pour out his squawking budgie beak in a seemingly never-ending stream. Day after day after day. Hour after hour after hour.
Revulsion because so many are so vile, so dishonest, so repetitive, I've often wondered what kind of Canadians could produce such a steaming pile of excrement.
So it's almost a relief to know that they are NOT produced by Canadians...
It's starting to feel a lot like summer in the place where I live, so yesterday I decided to take a short break from the crazy Covid world I've been living in for so long.
I jumped a ferry to Hanlan's Point, for the first time in more than a year. I had a nice little picnic, strung up a hammock, and was happier than I have felt for a long time.
We're winning the war on Covid, I'm getting vaccinated next week, life couldn't be more perfect.
Until I saw this...
From the very beginning of the pandemic Justin Trudeau has somehow managed to keep his cool, and not go after his political opponents, as they go after him.
Although the Cons, and their shabby bought media try to smear and demonize him all the time, Trudeau never responds in kind, never loses his temper, just keeps trying to steer the country through the pandemic.
So I'm glad to see that Michael Harris, one of Trudeau's sternest critics, now believes that despite his refusal to attack his enemies, the prime minister is winning the political game.
It was without a doubt the ugliest and most sordid political spectacle I have ever witnessed.
The sight of the sleazy Cons, and their slimy stooge media, attacking Justin Trudeau like a pack of rabid rats during the fake WE scandal.
The Con rats were so sure that their vicious assault on a children's charity would bring Trudeau down.
But have now been left gnashing their teeth in frustration.
Try to imagine you're a nurse or a doctor working in an ICU, and are struggling to cope with a pandemic that just goes on and on.
Struggling to save lives, while being bone tired weary and emotionally exhausted.
But still keeping on going. Somehow.
And then when you're home, you suddenly hear the roar or rumble of a crowd, the sound of bicycle horns and cow bells, and the plaintive cries of FREEDOM!!! FREEDOM!!!
And when you look out of the window you see these kooks....
In my last post I asked the question: are you ready for an election?
And my readers and I agreed that despite the Trudeau Liberal's golden polls, now was not the time.
Covid is still a major problem, and when it is mostly over, we'll all need a break to recover.
I know I will...
For months Erin O'Toole has been accusing Justin Trudeau of planning to call an election.
While Trudeau has always said that leading the fight against the pandemic is challenge enough.
And I have always believed that we won't go to the polls until everyone is vaccinated at some point in September.
But with these numbers looking so good.
I will never forget the way the ghastly Con rednecks welcomed Jason Kenney back to Alberta after his years in Ottawa, as if he was some kind of conquering hero.
He promised them he would destroy Justin Trudeau, the man they hate so much, and make Alberta great again.
And the rubes went for it like suckers.
But that was then and this is now.
The night when Stephen Harper finally won his glorious majority, his "strong, stable, national, majority Conservative government."
And set out to change Canada beyond recognition.
With the most horrifying assault on our precious values this country has ever seen.
I don't think I've ever seen Erin O'Toole looking so sad, so desperate, or just so pathetic.
For months he's been trying to smear Justin Trudeau, but now it seems he's run out of things to say.
And is starting to look less like the True Blue of his wet dreams.
And more like a rabid blue budgie...
Soon after the Great Plague began I started collecting bits and pieces of pandemic art, so that one day I could remember that it wasn't all darkness.
And that not even Covid could suppress the artistic spirit.
I have been able to collect lots of visual pieces, paintings, videos, wall murals, and some of my own photos, like this one...
For most of his political career Justin Trudeau's strongest supporters were young Canadians.
While most older Canadians voted for the Cons.
But not any longer.
Now most seniors are preparing to support Trudeau.
It wasn't easy to secure enough vaccines for Canadians in the early days of the pandemic.
A person I know who had a front row seat described it as something akin to a wrestling match, with knives.
But somehow Justin Trudeau managed to assemble a mighty team, and now we're reaping the benefits.
He was standing in his late mother's garden. He looked terrible, wasted even. He wanted to convince people that after three days in self-isolation he was OK, and in full control of the situation.
But instead he gave the opposite impression. He looked like a man who was losing it, and like so many other Cons doesn't know what he's doing.
First the picture froze, then they lost the audio, then they went to black. For poor dumb Doug, who doesn't know even how to operate a computer, it must have seemed like a nightmare.
A few days ago I predicted that Justin Trudeau's Liberals could be heading for a massive majority.
Although my prediction was based on a number of sources, many of those I know didn't believe it.
Which wasn't surprising, it's not easy to be optimistic in the middle of a pandemic, in a country with so many grumpy Con croakers.
But here is what the road to a super majority looks like...
He wasn't in the Ontario legislature today. The Con coward has gone into hiding. He knows what he has done, knows that he has mishandled the pandemic, and what that is doing to his once sky high popularity.
In my last post I predicted that Justin Trudeau would get a boost for his exemplary leadership, which has made Ford look like a bumbling buffoon.
Well guess what?
It looks like the surge has already begun.
He played Russian roulette with the deadly Covid variants, and lost.
Now Ontario is facing a human catastrophe that could result in as many as 30,000 Covid cases a day.
Its hospitals, its ICU units, and its health workers are struggling to keep from collapsing.
Erin O'Toole has rarely looked so ridiculous, standing in front of a moving video green screen.
So he could look like he was floating way above the earth, as he flogged his new/nouveau climate plan.
But then in a crazy way I suppose that made sense.
For if O'Toole looked ridiculous, so is his plan.
For a long long time Justin Trudeau put up with all the lies and smears Erin O'Toole excreted in his direction.
But not any longer.
Now he's fighting back, using the truth as his weapon.
And O'Toole has never looked more like a loser.
There is only one story I wanted to write about today. The story of our heroic front line workers who are in a desperate struggle to try to stop Covid's deadly third wave from swamping our hospitals.
But they know how I feel about them.
So instead I'm going to write about one of the so-called Covidiots, who is trying to stab those heroes in the back.
The ghastly bigot Ezra Levant.
It has now been exactly 104 years since Canadian troops assaulted German positions on Vimy Ridge.
The four divisions were fighting together for the first time, they were proud to be all in it together. At last.
And despite suffering more than ten thousand casualties they carried the day, and their victory was a significant milestone in the birth of this nation.
So you can imagine how disgusted I feel when I see that even as we battle the Covid monster threatening the lives of thousands of Canadians, the Cons are making it clear that this time we are NOT all in it together.
He didn't blame Justin Trudeau for anything, he praised him. He called for an end to partisan squabbling.
It was such a shocking sight I couldn't decide whether he had finally seen the light, or was finally losing his marbles.
But then Ford does have so much to be humble about.
As we all know Erin O'Toole is growing more and more desperate. His newser this morning was a horror show.
He's lying like a thief, his polls are tanking, his party is out of control. Nobody listens to him anymore.
But no matter how desperate he is, nothing can excuse this.
I have never found anything Erin O'Toole and his Con clowns have ever done to be even remotely amusing.
I consider them to be foul far right extremists who are threatening our country and its precious values.
But I have to admit this is hilarious.
It was a boxing match, nine years ago last night, that many believe changed the course of Canadian history.
The night the then Liberal MP Justin Trudeau took on the Con Senator Patrick Brazeau.
Back then I was a bit of a boxer or brawler myself, and I have to admit that like many others I thought Trudeau was the underdog.
As I'm sure you know, I have always believed that the Con clown Doug Ford is totally unfit to be the Premier of Canada's largest and most powerful province.
And the pandemic has made it even clearer that he doesn't know what he is doing.
But yesterday the bloated buffoon hit a new low on the Con scale of incompetence.
With a Con clown comedy show that wasn't funny, but was truly scary.
Just over two years ago the Con fluffer Paul Wells promoted this ghastly gang of Con carbon tax deniers, calling them The Resistance.
And claiming they were "Justin Trudeau's worst nightmare."
Less than a year later Trudeau defeated Andrew Scheer and shrunk him down to size.
And yesterday he turned the others into big time losers.
It's hard not to feel just a little bit sorry for Erin O'Toole, after the way he was humiliated by his supporters at the Con convention.
And the way the whole world has been laughing at the Con climate change deniers.
But that would be a mistake, for O'Toole does not appear to have learned his lesson.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole brushed off the idea Tuesday that a vote by the party's grassroots on climate change should colour Canadians' opinion of his party.
"I'm the leader, I'm in charge," O'Toole said a press conference as he reiterated his pledge that his party will present a plan to address climate change ahead of the next election.
And is instead leading his broken party in a new and dangerous direction.
It was supposed to be Erin O'Toole's big night. His Cinderella moment when he would step out of his shiny outhouse coach.
And announce that his Cons had to become new/nouveau if they were going to overthrow the evil Justin Trudeau.
And make O'Toole Prime Minister.
But sadly for him, as in the old fairy tale, the ball ended badly.
There are now only two days to go before the Con Policy Convention is due to begin, and Erin O'Toole is trying to pretend he's looking forward to it.
The truth is he's TERRIFIED.
He seemed to have a cold, and a steady stream of snot flowed out of his left nostril, until he finally picked up his mask, and used it to wipe himself.
*Shudder*
But I don't think it was the cold that was making him look so diminished.
I think it's this existential threat...
In my last post I wondered whether Erin O'Toole was losing control of his ugly Cons.
Now just a few days later, it's clear that old Outhouse is in big big trouble.
Not only is he losing control, many of his SoCon zombies are revolting.
The nice guy part went down the toilet, literally, the other day. When he was seen on tape cackling with glee at the thought of forcing Justin Trudeau to move into an outhouse.
Which was weird and disgusting, but did make only too clear why old Outhouse must NEVER be prime minister. Not when he has no class.
And not when he can't restrain himself or his ugly Cons.
Sometimes when the sun shines, and it almost feels like Spring, I can feel the optimism in the air. The feeling that we have finally turned the corner in the war on Covid-19.
There are fewer Covid patients in our ICUs. The number of deaths is going down. The number of vaccinated Canadians is steadily growing.
But I also know that all kinds of variants are spreading like wildfire.
And that while many of us have been damaged by the pandemic, in one way or the other.
For most pandemic weary Canadians it's something to celebrate.
The approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the impending arrival of yet another.
On the heels of Health Canada’s authorization of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the Johnson & Johnson shot could join the country’s arsenal within weeks, says Health Canada's Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma.
It's like a light at the end of a long dark tunnel.
Unless of course you're Outhouse O'Toole and his Cons, and you can't look and sound more disappointed...
I can only imagine how Outhouse O'Toole must have reacted after learning that Health Canada had approved the AstraZeneca vaccine
But it couldn't have been pretty, even with all that lipstick on to try to make him look like a moderate.
He was hoping to use the vaccine shortage issue to destroy Justin Trudeau, so he must be soooooo disappointed.
And to make matters worse, he's going to have to use some anti-kook vaccine to inoculate his own supporters.
Erin O'Toole has only been Con leader for six months, but already he's crawling through the gutter, and drowning in his own excrement.
He lies all the time, just like Andrew Scheer did before him.
And his hatred for Justin Trudeau is so toxic he refuses to condemn those who would encourage the sickos of this world to kill him.
I still remember how happy I was when Jagmeet Singh became the leader of the NDP.
I thought it was great that a member of a visible minority had finally been elected leader of a federal party.
And I hoped that Singh could get the NDP out of the right-wing rut it had been in under Tom Mulcair.
But boy was I wrong.
As if Justin Trudeau didn't have enough challenges battling a pandemic, now he's preparing to take on another kind of enemy, an old enemy.
Canada's gun lobby.
He's trying to make Canada safer, and less like ugly America.
But predictably the gun nuts are very unhappy. So unhappy the president of the National Firearms Association is making jokes about bringing back the guillotine to deal with the "tyranny" of gun control.
Which at a tense time like this one isn't just NOT funny.
As I'm sure you all know by now, Erin O'Toole is desperately trying to fool Canadians into believing that he's really a nice guy.
And that because he expelled the SoCon bigot Derek Sloan, and demoted the yappy Pierre Poilievre, his ugly party is now a more moderate one.
But as I warned, you can't put lipstick on a hog or a Con.
And the more you put on, the worse it looks...
I am frequently accused of having my head in the clouds, which isn't true. I'm just smarter than those who say that, and they're jealous eh?
But yesterday I must admit, I was hovering just above Mars.
Hoping that the rover Perseverance would be able to land on the red planet, in one piece.
Since only about ten minutes before touchdown it was travelling at 12,000 miles an hour, it was never going to be an easy thing.
But somehow the little robot managed to land itself.
On the frontlines of the Covid nightmare, it's the belief that keeps many totally exhausted health workers from collapsing.
The belief that whatever our differences, we're all in this one together.
I share that belief. I see it as a chance to unite to defeat a lethal alien enemy. I see it as a great and noble cause.
So the ugly chorus of angry old men echoing in my ears these days absolutely disgusts me.
I'll never forget the moment that I heard that Donald Trump had Covid. And how although I'm an atheist, I prayed that it would be fatal.
And I'll always remember how bitterly disappointed I was that he didn't die.
How could the orange monster have survived? How could he shrug it off as nothing more than a bad cold?
When his age combined with his unhealthy lifestyle should have made him particularly vulnerable.
