The Ordre de Jacques-Cartier (OJC), commonly known as “La Patente,” was a secret society founded in 1926 in Vanier (now Ottawa), Ontario, to further the religious, social and economic interests of French Canadians. At the forefront of the conflicts over language and nationalism until the 1960s, it discreetly wielded its influence by infiltrating various associations, and it mobilized its members within a strict authoritarian structure. The rise of Québécois nationalism and internal tensions led to its dissolution in 1965.
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and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
and the dragon gave him his power,
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The Messiah syndrome
Author of the article:
Lorrie Goldstein
https://torontosun.com/2012/09/07/the-messiah-syndrome
When are the federal Liberals going to figure out that their Messiah complex is killing them?
By Messiah complex, I mean their apparent belief that if they just pick another Pierre Trudeau-like politician as their leader, Canadians will flock to them in support?
Wasn’t Paul Martin supposed to be their Messiah?
Wasn’t Michael Ignatieff?
How did that work out?
Now it’s Pierre Trudeau’s son, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, who is being touted as the next Liberal Messiah, even though he hasn’t yet announced whether he’s running and has cautioned Liberals not to view him as a saviour.
Of course, Trudeau has every right to run for his party’s leadership. He probably should.
His presence in a genuine leadership race will certainly bring the Liberals some much needed media attention.
But not if it’s just a coronation for Trudeau who, aside from being Pierre Trudeau’s son, is best known for outboxing Tory Sen. Patrick Brazeau in a charity match.
In any event, the issue isn’t Trudeau’s candidacy.
It’s the number of Liberals who apparently believe that if he runs, there’s hardly any point in having a leadership race.
This from a party that in the space of nine short years — since Jean Chretien’s retirement — has gone from being the self-described natural governing party of Canada to third place, with most voters no longer having any idea of what the Liberals stand for, let alone any yearning to restore them to government.
In fact, Jean Chretien has been the Liberals’ most successful leader post-Trudeau, winning consecutive majority governments in 1993, 1997 and 2000.
And yet when Chretien first won the Liberal leadership in 1990, Liberals didn’t regard him as their Messiah. Many of them called him “yesterday’s man.” Indeed, Chretien’s greatest asset throughout his political career was not living up to the impossible expectations many Liberals are now putting on Justin Trudeau, but exceeding the low expectations of his critics.
If the Conservatives have a Messiah, it’s Stephen Harper, who in the space of 10 years, starting in 2002, re-united Canada’s broken conservative movement and held the Liberals to a minority government in 2004 before winning Conservative minorities in 2006, 2008 and a majority last year.
Except Conservatives don’t talk about Harper as their Messiah, and no one bestowed the party leadership on him. He had to win it.
Among Conservatives, Harper is respected, which has a lot more staying power than being adored.
Jack Layton’s untimely death soon after leading the NDP into the official opposition for its first time in history last year, certainly prompted some Messianic references to his leadership with his passing.
But the NDP, wisely, didn’t look for a new Messiah to take his place. His successor, Thomas Mulcair, had to win the job after a hard fought race.
The problem with the Liberal yearning for a Pierre Trudeau-like Messiah, which seems to be coalescing around his son, is that it’s an emotion based on nostalgia.
A nostalgia to recapture the “Trudeaumania” of 1968, when Pierre Trudeau won the Liberal leadership race and soon after that, his first majority government.
But the problem with nostalgia is that it clouds judgment.
For example, the reality that post-1968, it wasn’t long before Trudeau became a highly polarizing figure to Canadians, hated by many in Western Canada to this day for his imposition of the National Energy Program in 1980.
‘Good riddance’
By the time Trudeau took his famous “walk in the snow” and announced his retirement in 1984, the attitude of many Canadians wasn’t “thanks for the memories” but “good riddance.” The point is that while the Trudeau name makes many aging Liberal baby boomers in the Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal corridor nostalgic for the past, it also evokes anger in huge sections of the country.
That doesn’t mean Justin Trudeau will suffer the same fate or that he shouldn’t run for Liberal leader.
But, if the Liberals know what’s good for them, it does mean he should have to earn it.
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