Liberals are no longer able to handle basics of government
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The crazy lines at passport offices all across Canada is a sign that the Liberal government is no longer able to manage the very basics of their responsibilities to Canadian citizens. And this is a problem because here's the thing: a lot of the stuff that you see in here, say, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing, well, he doesn't really need to do them. They're not the core functions of the federal government. And when people say they've had an interaction with their MP, it's almost always about passport-related issues. And that's what makes them have a positive or negative impression of their local MP's constituency office.
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The crazy lines at passport offices all across Canada is a sign that the Liberal government
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is no longer able to manage the very basics of their responsibilities to Canadian citizens.
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I saw the pictures, I saw the news stories, but I saw firsthand myself the other day
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walking by a passport office in downtown Toronto and wow, you know, it's true. There were lineups,
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people had chairs, they were waiting outside for a long time. We were hearing reports of people
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camping out early in the morning. I've seen people posting pictures of it, my colleagues,
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Brian Lilly, other people saying, hey, look, this is what's actually going on. And this is a problem
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because here's the thing, a lot of the stuff that you see in here, say, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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doing, well, he doesn't really need to do them. They're not the core functions of the federal
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government. You know how he flies around the world, gets COVID multiple times, parties with Gavin
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Newsom. That's not really the job of the Prime Minister. I mean, flying around meeting with world
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leaders is, but a lot of the stuff he's doing, it's kind of optional, it's tertiary, all the climate
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parties he goes to, you don't really need to be doing them. I mean, a lot of the things that
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government does that impact our daily lives are on the municipal level and the provincial level.
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When it comes to federal government, one of the things that when people talk about their
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interaction with the federal government is things like passports, things with getting those sorts of
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permits that apply to the federal government. And when people say they've had an interaction with
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their MP, it's almost always about passport-related issues or getting guests coming in from another
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country, that kind of stuff. And that's what makes them have a positive or negative impression,
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at least of their local MP's constituency office. That is the core relationship between the federal
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citizen and the federal government, dealing with these sorts of things. If you cannot manage this,
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if you cannot let someone go and renew their passport or get a new passport in a fair and orderly
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and reasonable fashion, well, what are you doing? It doesn't matter how many climate parties you go
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to around the world, you're clearly not doing the basic functions of running a federal government