THE PRIME MINISTER WAS IN NEW YORK CITY, this week, auditioning for his next gig.
Making the rounds on legacy media, Justin Trudeau, by turns, was charming (as much as charm permits in an increasingly illiberal world) and squeamishly woke (even though the trend has peaked according to The Economist).
Yes — the world has moved past Trudeau (the younger) and his vision for Canada in 2015; a declaration for a new kind of Canada that wasn’t Canada anymore but something even the New York Times Magazine and The Guardian found perplexing. We caught the drift of what the prime minister was going on about nine years ago. We wrote an op-ed way back when, an opinion piece that created a howl at the CBC in 2018. Give it a read.
And so here we are in 2024: a Canada that’s very different from when Justin Trudeau took office with his promise of “sunny ways”.
How’d that turn out?
We’ve tolerated Justin Trudeau’s odd notions about our country, the world, and our identity as Canadians. And we’ve paid a huge price for that tolerance. To the point that, in 2024, we have a separatist political party, the Bloc Quebecois, directing the show in Ottawa—exploiting the will of Canadians to secure the interests of Quebeckers. And there’s no shame in their saying so.
That’s how far we’ve come off the rails in this country.
Justin Trudeau, hmmmm.
Will somebody — anybody — please give this man a new job… pretty please.
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