Deputy Prime Minister Sings Les Miserables Song In Parliament

Liberals start class warfare with a song.

Deputy PM Freeland left much of Canada cringing when, following the proud tradition of Justin Trudeau dancing in India, she showed up in Parliament in full French Revolution regalia to sing “Do You Hear the People Sing?” (the famous song from the musical Les Miserables.) 

Freeland, ever defiant, proclaimed that although the last 34 wedge issues introduced by her government may have failed, things would go better if they used a wedge song, not merely a wedge issue. And this one is big, she said - “Class Division,” pointing at those barking Conservative running dogs, cleverly working behind the scenes of the Liberal NDP coalition and pulling all the strings.  

Indeed, raising a broken coat hanger to the sky, Freeland said, “It is the Conservatives with their bourgeois values that have led to the decline in productivity, the health care crisis, the housing crisis, the immigration crisis, and the falling per capita GDP!!”  

Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

Freeland explained that the only way out of this was to raise the capital gains inclusion rates because those filthy capitalistic swine that started a small business, ran a farm, or became a family doctor should not have a tax advantage over those hardworking prols in Ottawa who work for the federal government and can’t be fired, get to work from home and consider walking the dog, shopping at Costco or working out as “working from home” - because if they have their iPhone with them, it’s work.  

They also get a defined benefit pension plan.  

Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, but for Justin’s Fanpack, their final pitstop may not be to change the tires but to separate the country into rich and poor. The politics of resentment, though, might be second last; the last seems always to be abortion.  

And indeed, Freeland said she might one day appear in Parliament dressed in the petticoats of the Handmaiden’s Tale and fill the air with the Internationale, all the while, of course, marching on top of a pile of broken coat hangers. 

Press observers, though, said that trampling coat hangers, especially those plastic ones from the Dollar Store that always leave your clothes on the floor of your walk-in closet, might be ineffectual and lose symbolic value.  

She wants calls for revolution to fill the air, but perhaps she is getting more notes of desperation. 

Only four months ago, NDP/Liberal MP Charlie Angus introduced Bill C-372, 

Act C-372 was designed to make supporting or promoting the oil and gas industry illegal. Angus did not delve into whether the Oscar Mayer Weiner truck might end up forever parked as the question soon became whether there should be any advertising of products that might offer persons some respite before departing this mortal coil.  

Speaking before the Ottawa press gallery, Angus began his press conference by asking to be called “the Vicar.” 

He said he did want to make it a criminal act to promote fossil fuel consumption. He explained that merely thinking about transporting one’s body without that body being within an EV,  on a bicycle or being propelled by one’s own feet, not to mention notions of heating or cooling one's home - all was sinful and would lead to global warming.  

“It’s the environmental version of lust,” the Vicar explained; “it’s like porn, it defiles us, and our planet should be a temple.” 

“We shouldn’t let those bad thoughts in our heads.” 

While noting that in the Ontario Catholic school system, this would never be allowed as they have exclusive rights to confessionals, the Vicar suggested that public schools should mandate weekly environmental confessionals and make sure that these ‘Gretafessionals’ were rolled into place each Friday, blocking school exits and trapping students in school until they passed through.