. . .Mr. Biden has fumbled away the status built by his predecessors of the United States as an energy self-sufficient country.
[March's] meeting at Ottawa between Prime Minister Trudeau and President Biden must rank as one of the most platitudinous encounters of recent world history. It was also a prodigious demonstration of the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the contemporary social democratic left.
"Almost every official sentence from the two leaders was bunk. We had had no state visit from an incumbent president of the United States in Canada for approximately seven years, something that it has not been possible to say since President Roosevelt’s visit in 1938 when he famously said that the United States “would not stand idly by” if Canada were attacked by a power from another hemisphere.
"Yet it is not clear what was the purpose of this 24-hour swing. It virtually shut down central Ottawa as if the truckers were back in greater strength, and severely disrupted air traffic. We were assured by the Prime Minister that “We’ve made progress on… growing the middle class, strengthening the economy, making life more affordable for people, fighting climate change and protecting the environment, protecting our citizens and our values…
”Plus he threw in that “economic policy, climate policy, and security policy aren’t just connected; they are one and the same. Both the president and I agree on this, and that’s why we launched our Joint Energy Transformation Task Force.”. . .
Unless the voters of Canada and the United States have taken a prolonged leave of their senses and even their instinct of national self-preservation, what we saw in Ottawa last week was just a joint selfie with banal audio of two placemen in high office running out the clock to the end of their terms: a decayed servitor and a politically agile young man with a pleasant countenance and a famous name but not the slightest conception of the public policy needs of this country. It was a sobering spectacle.
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