Agreed. The only word I would change is "zealotry" in the context of invoking the Emergencies Act. That was the signature of a banana republic dictator.
So, how reconcilled are we? When do we know we are all reconcilled with the Indigenous peoples. Seems it is all words and it is never enough. Always new demands that cost money. Perhaps he knew that it was all a sham.
I would really like to hear the background story on the Truth and Reconciliation Torino Surf Day by one of the inner circle. For sure it was communicated to him that he shouldn’t do this and he didn’t give a flip but I’d love to hear how heated the convo got and and how many folks warned him.
Nailed it! He's worse than Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Too bad he can't be held accountable for the devastation the rest of us have to deal with for decades.
Glad you remembered the Kokanee grope. So many in the media have left that out. Wish someone would also include Trudeau/Rodriguez attempt during the early stages of the pandemic to sneak in a clause that would have given them unchecked spending powers, circumventing parliment oversight. I'm not a fan of Elizabeth May, but happy she picked that one up.
I thought at the time of the onset of the pandemic that Trudeau and his minions would use it to enrich themselves...and then We happened. Who'da thunk that paying volunteers would be a good idea?
You’re right, they were caught trying to sneak that clause through the House. But even after that setback, he still appeared almost daily on the steps of the cottage and made funding announcements. He didn’t care that Parliament denied him that power, he took it anyway. Why does no one mention that?
Trudeau's friend and advisor Gerald Butts observed "Arrogance is Liberal kryptonite". The problem for the Liberals is that Trudeau's arrogance has been poisoning them from their core since they formed government in 2015.
Trudeau's got political star power and formidable campaigning skills, at least for the pre-2020 era where he surged to prominence. He took over a near-dead Liberal party in 2013 and returned it to power with a majority government in 2015. Unfortunately, Trudeau interpreted that as a sign that he could walk on water and was indispensable.
He didn't understand his own limitations: a weak grasp of policy, limited managerial experience, and no experience in government. If Trudeau had delegated to a strong cabinet, he would've been far more successful. He didn't, either because the once-powerful Liberals had badly hollowed out since the Chretien era or because he wouldn't cede power to others.
Trudeau's huge ego has always been accompanied by a paradoxical insecurity: he wouldn't listen to others, and marginalized people who challenged him or wouldn't simply bend to his whims. He micromanaged government, continuing a decades-long trend of increasing centralization power and decision making in the PMO. However, under Trudeau this led to government sclerosis and paralysis because it vastly exceeded the capacity of any small group of people. Trudeau was also an *incompetent* micromanager, unlike wonky control freak Stephen Harper.
We can turn to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry to summarize the root of Trudeau's problems: "A man's got to understand his limitations." Trudeau didn't understand his limitations. He tried to take on the job of prime minister as an entry-level position, and didn't grow into the job.
I think Butts was the Svengali behind the scenes from day one. Kevin O'Leary has promised to shed light on that backroom creep. Telford as well. Grifters all.
I remember Jean Chretien telling an interviewer that Justin Trudeau had never once had a conversation with him seeking advice after becoming Prime Minister.
After bringing the Liberal Party back from purgatory to a whopping majority government, I suppose that Trudeau had every right to turn his back on the Party elders that had run things into purgatory in the first place. However, that’s very short sighted and vain for someone who landed in the Prime Minister’s Office with no government experience.
“Institutional knowledge” is a coveted thing in any public or business environment that plans for tomorrow by training the newbies how things work.
When the LPC inevitably chooses T3 (Xavier Trudeau) as their “saviour” in twenty years, I hope and pray Canadians recieve it with revultion well earned by this socialist family.
I doubt it. There is a big market for political dynasties, even if most won't admit it. Brand Trudeau even still has value on the West Island and in the Ottawa Valley.
His administration exposed it for the harmful, brainless idea it is. He won two elections pursuing his woke nonsense. Only now are people waking up. Credit him with that.
The tears were for his career. (I would suggest his legacy, but he hasn't got the self-awareness.)
He represents the collapsing left exquisitely: sanctimony, reliance on the grotesquely unethical indexing of people by shapes and colours, deaf to the hopes and cares of lesser beings (any who disagree), the self-reference, operational and managerial incompetence, perception and projection of himself (and the people who agree with him) as elite.
David Eby's comment after a shocking near-death election experience that, "we have to do more," when the obvious message was, "to do different."
My little town of Victoria's council engineering themselves a 40%+ raise with a sleazy process, passing bylaws to exclude public engagement they can't control, using cynical Alternative Approval to pad slush funds when they know they can't succeed with referenda.
Billionaires and capitalism are overtly self-interested. I'll take "overt" over this sleazy selfishness ... "Progressive" is now a pejorative because of the odious behaviour of these people.
We can't have an election quickly enough. Just listened to former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes' interview with Jordan Peterson (recorded in October). If you've ever wondered whether JT meant well but just wasn't great at walking the fine line between personal ambition and a genuine effort at social progress, their conversation will disabuse you of that notion. And it's not JBP goading her on, if that's what you're thinking (even if you're not a fan, he gives a hell of an interview...and CCC seems like a real wasted opportunity for government).
I watched the interview and found that all the things I saw wrong with Junior were borne out in the interview. Harper was right Junior was just not ready and 9 years later the same holds true.
I watched it as well and then read her book. In the book she does belabor her points but is a very smart and committed woman. Peterson was at his best. Recommended to those here to get a real sense of what it was like to be a Minister with him as a leader.
Trudeau became like Custer putting more and more locks on the PMO door hoping they would keep reality out. He's a hypocrite to be sure.
I still can't believe anyone is still talking about blackface. Of all the stupid things he did, this is so far down the totem pole as to be irrelevant. People outside the political world do stupid things. That shouldn't be life-defining; especially when they happen when that person is not in public life. If we expect otherwise....and it's already happening, the pool of smart people willing to put themselves under the microscope of public life will shrink further.
History will likely judge Trudeau as Canada's worst Prime Minister. Based on the lack of leadership being shown by anyone in power currently, he won't keep that title for long.
Most people never have a moment in life pretending to have a different skin tone multiple times, and then proceed to lecture others on racism. If he wasn’t so quick to call everything racism or xenophobia or some other thing, maybe nobody would care. But when he spews hate and then acts differently, people notice the two-faced nature of it.
Sorta like claiming to be a feminist but alienating the most powerful women you work with because you’re too self centered to make the right decision when the going gets tough. Better to throw a woman under the bus.
Halloween is Halloween. And for most people, you're capable of differentiating belief from humour. I'm not saying it was a good idea; it was stupid. Humans do stupid things, and he had no political or leadership aspirations when he did it. It's part of what we are. It's the degree of stupidity that really matters. I can think of many idiotic things Trudeau did before I get anywhere near blackface. Your last paragraph is a perfect example.
He didn’t do it for Halloween though. I also think it’s just one of a list of ridiculous things he’s done. It deserves to be on the list. Was it the single thing that did him in? No. Because chances are nobody’s career would get done in by that unless - ironically - the wokester pushing woke stuff went too far. But does it make all his inappropriate lecturing of Canadians ok?
OK, a costume party. Is there really a difference? I'd put it behind SNC, JWR, Philpott, WE, the military, the dearth of EV charging stations across the country, the failure to meet any of his climate goals, the failure to promote natural gas, the lack of coordination on increasing immigration rates, etc. By comparison to any of those, blackface is irrelevant... except that it showed a tendency to have terrible judgment. But there are paragraphs of material on that during his time in power.
Nowhere did I ever say he had the right to lecture Canadians. He sounded great in 2015..... the trajectory was down from that day on. He should have been done in 2019, but that's Andrew Scheer's fault. Now we get Pierre....no blackface, and we'll find out if he has any plans besides 14 cents a litre. I'm not expecting much. The problems need to be addressed honestly; not with more subsidies and programs paid for with borrowed money. We are in serious trouble. We have no serious leaders.
He did it three times we know of and he confessed that he may have done the black face on more occasions but could not remember.
Stop trying to minimize this.
He has appalling self awareness and a tendency to do the wrong thing , yet very unwilling to acknowledge his own ‘sins’ , while doing his best to do a blanket shaming of our collective past ,the people who came to Canada, our first PM MacDonald and painting the present Canada as an intolerant and xenophobic society.
Trudeau’s way of dealing with his multiple scandals was to lie blatantly and deny them.
Ujal Dosangh, former NDP Premier, said that Canada is one of the, if not the, most tolerant and accepting country in the world.
He came as an immigrant from India as a teen.
Dosangh would know much more than Trudeau, the destroyer of Canada’s self esteem, could possibly know on that subject.
I agree with everything you said about him. It describes him to a "T". He has terrible judgment, and lies through his teeth; the first most obvious case being SNC where I gave up on him.
I don't believe we should pretend our past is anything but what it was. What MacDonald did was wrong....but that's through a 2020 lens which he didn't have. Hindsight is always 2020. The failure to talk about the past without acknowledging that they did what they thought was best; partly out of ignorance, and partly out of convenience(although that might not be the right word). I don't feel any guilt for what happened, but I accept that it was wrong and that we should try to make amends and learn from it. I don't think addressing the reality of history destroys one's self-esteem. I think it can be a tool to make us even better.
We may still be the country Dosangh speaks of. Alas, IMHO, because of failures much more serious than blackface, those coming have nowhere to live. He's done. Do you really think when you're looking back on him in 20 years that blackface will even register....assuming we're still a country?
I agree fully. His blackface stints were made a big deal because of his self-righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou personality. It looked good on him. POS.
David, the reason that so many of us pay attention to his face painting is that he and his party (as well as the NDP, of course) searched for historical ooopses on so many opposition politicians and even candidates and then mercilessly shamed them for some silly indiscretion many years prior. In other words, hypocrisy by the Face Painter himself and the complete LPC that continues.
Doesn't every party do that? If politicians were as concerned about policy as they are about throwing "darts", we'd be living in utopia. Every campaign ad is the same garbage with the names changed. Leaders have plans and a vision to address some really serious issues. There is no one in politics in Canada with either of those.
Yes, every party tries to look at a candidate's background to see what there is that is embarrassing. What the LPC and their acolytes did, however, was not to say that candidate X says "X" now but yesterday he said "Y" but, instead, they demonized candidate X as a wholly illegitimate person who did not deserve to live in our society. In other words, the LPC et al attacked not a perceived hypocrisy by a candidate but they attacked the idea that the individual should exist.
David, People "outside the political" world are measured for their stupid things by the people in their orbit. The (huge) differences in this case are: 1) they are not grasping for power; 2) they do not present themselves as leaders; 3) they do not have/use a powerful platform for influence, and, in this case; 4) they do not castigate huge constituencies, an audience of millions for moral failings.
The last point is key: "Blackface" is the ultimate hypocrisy for a person leading the cruel, unethical, destructive idea that identities (shapes and colours) should be ranked as more or less moral, therefore more or less deserving in our community. This is why people will correctly remember, be angry, and hold him accountable for his choice.
Of course, he deserves condemnation for it. But if you do something legal but stupid when you're 20, should that limit what you can accomplish with your life? As the leader of a country, are you not expected to do and say the right things? As you age, are you not able to look back on stupid things you did, call them stupid, and say that others shouldn't do the same thing? Is that hypocrisy or growth...or both?
Trudeau has now been held accountable for actions, and in a typical Trudeau fashion, it's slow, ineffective, and far behind schedule. Which was worse? Blackface or SNC? Blackface or Tofino? Blackface or India? Blackface or the most recent deficit? I could go on for paragraphs, but of his failings, Blackface is the least of my concerns compared to the choices available.
Does that make sense? I'm not excusing it; I'm saying it's far from the worst thing he did.
I'll add, based on experience hiring, managing, and leading people, that if this detail were available about a hire, someone being considered for leadership, it would give me pause. Of course people change (nobody knows this better than I), but patterns of behaviour exist, and the onus would be on the candidate to convince me they were not the same person.
That's how I feel about SNC. That was the back-breaker for me. Everyone is deeply flawed at some level, but that hypocrisy was too much to ever support again.
CF, you are right, young people do make mistakes but the Face Painter himself and the LPC started witch hunts on CPC MPs, candidates, etc. looking for any similar historic foolishness and then attempted to hound such candidates, etc. from staying public life. In other words, CF, they were and are hypocrites.
Outstanding summary of 10 years of waste and lost opportunities. A damning indictment; executed with precision.
Agreed. The only word I would change is "zealotry" in the context of invoking the Emergencies Act. That was the signature of a banana republic dictator.
On point for sure!
Going surfing in Tofino on the first National Day of Reconciliation is just the perfect summation of him as a human being. What a jackass.
So, how reconcilled are we? When do we know we are all reconcilled with the Indigenous peoples. Seems it is all words and it is never enough. Always new demands that cost money. Perhaps he knew that it was all a sham.
I would really like to hear the background story on the Truth and Reconciliation Torino Surf Day by one of the inner circle. For sure it was communicated to him that he shouldn’t do this and he didn’t give a flip but I’d love to hear how heated the convo got and and how many folks warned him.
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there have been many commentaries on JT's record and departure in the last day - but this is one of the most accurate
Nailed it! He's worse than Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Too bad he can't be held accountable for the devastation the rest of us have to deal with for decades.
Glad you remembered the Kokanee grope. So many in the media have left that out. Wish someone would also include Trudeau/Rodriguez attempt during the early stages of the pandemic to sneak in a clause that would have given them unchecked spending powers, circumventing parliment oversight. I'm not a fan of Elizabeth May, but happy she picked that one up.
I thought at the time of the onset of the pandemic that Trudeau and his minions would use it to enrich themselves...and then We happened. Who'da thunk that paying volunteers would be a good idea?
You’re right, they were caught trying to sneak that clause through the House. But even after that setback, he still appeared almost daily on the steps of the cottage and made funding announcements. He didn’t care that Parliament denied him that power, he took it anyway. Why does no one mention that?
Trudeau's friend and advisor Gerald Butts observed "Arrogance is Liberal kryptonite". The problem for the Liberals is that Trudeau's arrogance has been poisoning them from their core since they formed government in 2015.
Trudeau's got political star power and formidable campaigning skills, at least for the pre-2020 era where he surged to prominence. He took over a near-dead Liberal party in 2013 and returned it to power with a majority government in 2015. Unfortunately, Trudeau interpreted that as a sign that he could walk on water and was indispensable.
He didn't understand his own limitations: a weak grasp of policy, limited managerial experience, and no experience in government. If Trudeau had delegated to a strong cabinet, he would've been far more successful. He didn't, either because the once-powerful Liberals had badly hollowed out since the Chretien era or because he wouldn't cede power to others.
Trudeau's huge ego has always been accompanied by a paradoxical insecurity: he wouldn't listen to others, and marginalized people who challenged him or wouldn't simply bend to his whims. He micromanaged government, continuing a decades-long trend of increasing centralization power and decision making in the PMO. However, under Trudeau this led to government sclerosis and paralysis because it vastly exceeded the capacity of any small group of people. Trudeau was also an *incompetent* micromanager, unlike wonky control freak Stephen Harper.
We can turn to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry to summarize the root of Trudeau's problems: "A man's got to understand his limitations." Trudeau didn't understand his limitations. He tried to take on the job of prime minister as an entry-level position, and didn't grow into the job.
I think Butts was the Svengali behind the scenes from day one. Kevin O'Leary has promised to shed light on that backroom creep. Telford as well. Grifters all.
I remember Jean Chretien telling an interviewer that Justin Trudeau had never once had a conversation with him seeking advice after becoming Prime Minister.
After bringing the Liberal Party back from purgatory to a whopping majority government, I suppose that Trudeau had every right to turn his back on the Party elders that had run things into purgatory in the first place. However, that’s very short sighted and vain for someone who landed in the Prime Minister’s Office with no government experience.
“Institutional knowledge” is a coveted thing in any public or business environment that plans for tomorrow by training the newbies how things work.
Well said
When the LPC inevitably chooses T3 (Xavier Trudeau) as their “saviour” in twenty years, I hope and pray Canadians recieve it with revultion well earned by this socialist family.
That thought alone makes me want to puke.
In that case the entire LPC - if it still exists - should be legally disenfranchised and locked up in the lunatic asylum for life.
No no. Who wants Xavier when you can go with Hadrian. Hadrian's gonna build us a wall.
Not bad, and quite funny.
I doubt it. There is a big market for political dynasties, even if most won't admit it. Brand Trudeau even still has value on the West Island and in the Ottawa Valley.
Trudeau will go down in history as the 'bloke who broke woke" in this country. Gotta give the poor boy some credit.
Well it would be to his credit if he wasn't the one who promoted it in the first place. Can't take credit for undoing a disaster you caused.
His administration exposed it for the harmful, brainless idea it is. He won two elections pursuing his woke nonsense. Only now are people waking up. Credit him with that.
That maybe the only good thing in his legacy.
Perhaps, but 'go woke, go broke' also has been applied 'Liberally' to 🇨🇦
You’ve pretty much summed it up, Andrew. Now, let’s just hope we have a country left after he has weakened it so much and there’s a wolf at the door.
He loves himself more than he will ever love Canada or Canadians.
The tears were for his career. (I would suggest his legacy, but he hasn't got the self-awareness.)
He represents the collapsing left exquisitely: sanctimony, reliance on the grotesquely unethical indexing of people by shapes and colours, deaf to the hopes and cares of lesser beings (any who disagree), the self-reference, operational and managerial incompetence, perception and projection of himself (and the people who agree with him) as elite.
David Eby's comment after a shocking near-death election experience that, "we have to do more," when the obvious message was, "to do different."
My little town of Victoria's council engineering themselves a 40%+ raise with a sleazy process, passing bylaws to exclude public engagement they can't control, using cynical Alternative Approval to pad slush funds when they know they can't succeed with referenda.
Billionaires and capitalism are overtly self-interested. I'll take "overt" over this sleazy selfishness ... "Progressive" is now a pejorative because of the odious behaviour of these people.
Thank the universe the worm has turned.
We can compare Eby's facile statement to Trudeau's "we have to do better" and Millers "we didn't quite get the numbers right". Pathetic.
True. I used to think “progressive” was describing a good thing. Now it makes me cringe.
Excellent assessment of the person, the politics and the resulting shitty situation, Andrew. Thank you.
I was struggling to find the words. Thanks for finding them for me.
We can't have an election quickly enough. Just listened to former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes' interview with Jordan Peterson (recorded in October). If you've ever wondered whether JT meant well but just wasn't great at walking the fine line between personal ambition and a genuine effort at social progress, their conversation will disabuse you of that notion. And it's not JBP goading her on, if that's what you're thinking (even if you're not a fan, he gives a hell of an interview...and CCC seems like a real wasted opportunity for government).
I watched the interview and found that all the things I saw wrong with Junior were borne out in the interview. Harper was right Junior was just not ready and 9 years later the same holds true.
I watched it as well and then read her book. In the book she does belabor her points but is a very smart and committed woman. Peterson was at his best. Recommended to those here to get a real sense of what it was like to be a Minister with him as a leader.
Thanks. I’ll give it a listen.
Well said.
Trudeau became like Custer putting more and more locks on the PMO door hoping they would keep reality out. He's a hypocrite to be sure.
I still can't believe anyone is still talking about blackface. Of all the stupid things he did, this is so far down the totem pole as to be irrelevant. People outside the political world do stupid things. That shouldn't be life-defining; especially when they happen when that person is not in public life. If we expect otherwise....and it's already happening, the pool of smart people willing to put themselves under the microscope of public life will shrink further.
History will likely judge Trudeau as Canada's worst Prime Minister. Based on the lack of leadership being shown by anyone in power currently, he won't keep that title for long.
Most people never have a moment in life pretending to have a different skin tone multiple times, and then proceed to lecture others on racism. If he wasn’t so quick to call everything racism or xenophobia or some other thing, maybe nobody would care. But when he spews hate and then acts differently, people notice the two-faced nature of it.
Sorta like claiming to be a feminist but alienating the most powerful women you work with because you’re too self centered to make the right decision when the going gets tough. Better to throw a woman under the bus.
Halloween is Halloween. And for most people, you're capable of differentiating belief from humour. I'm not saying it was a good idea; it was stupid. Humans do stupid things, and he had no political or leadership aspirations when he did it. It's part of what we are. It's the degree of stupidity that really matters. I can think of many idiotic things Trudeau did before I get anywhere near blackface. Your last paragraph is a perfect example.
He didn’t do it for Halloween though. I also think it’s just one of a list of ridiculous things he’s done. It deserves to be on the list. Was it the single thing that did him in? No. Because chances are nobody’s career would get done in by that unless - ironically - the wokester pushing woke stuff went too far. But does it make all his inappropriate lecturing of Canadians ok?
OK, a costume party. Is there really a difference? I'd put it behind SNC, JWR, Philpott, WE, the military, the dearth of EV charging stations across the country, the failure to meet any of his climate goals, the failure to promote natural gas, the lack of coordination on increasing immigration rates, etc. By comparison to any of those, blackface is irrelevant... except that it showed a tendency to have terrible judgment. But there are paragraphs of material on that during his time in power.
Nowhere did I ever say he had the right to lecture Canadians. He sounded great in 2015..... the trajectory was down from that day on. He should have been done in 2019, but that's Andrew Scheer's fault. Now we get Pierre....no blackface, and we'll find out if he has any plans besides 14 cents a litre. I'm not expecting much. The problems need to be addressed honestly; not with more subsidies and programs paid for with borrowed money. We are in serious trouble. We have no serious leaders.
He did it three times we know of and he confessed that he may have done the black face on more occasions but could not remember.
Stop trying to minimize this.
He has appalling self awareness and a tendency to do the wrong thing , yet very unwilling to acknowledge his own ‘sins’ , while doing his best to do a blanket shaming of our collective past ,the people who came to Canada, our first PM MacDonald and painting the present Canada as an intolerant and xenophobic society.
Trudeau’s way of dealing with his multiple scandals was to lie blatantly and deny them.
Ujal Dosangh, former NDP Premier, said that Canada is one of the, if not the, most tolerant and accepting country in the world.
He came as an immigrant from India as a teen.
Dosangh would know much more than Trudeau, the destroyer of Canada’s self esteem, could possibly know on that subject.
I agree with everything you said about him. It describes him to a "T". He has terrible judgment, and lies through his teeth; the first most obvious case being SNC where I gave up on him.
I don't believe we should pretend our past is anything but what it was. What MacDonald did was wrong....but that's through a 2020 lens which he didn't have. Hindsight is always 2020. The failure to talk about the past without acknowledging that they did what they thought was best; partly out of ignorance, and partly out of convenience(although that might not be the right word). I don't feel any guilt for what happened, but I accept that it was wrong and that we should try to make amends and learn from it. I don't think addressing the reality of history destroys one's self-esteem. I think it can be a tool to make us even better.
We may still be the country Dosangh speaks of. Alas, IMHO, because of failures much more serious than blackface, those coming have nowhere to live. He's done. Do you really think when you're looking back on him in 20 years that blackface will even register....assuming we're still a country?
He did it so often I think he walked around with a tube of face paint in his pocket.
I agree fully. His blackface stints were made a big deal because of his self-righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou personality. It looked good on him. POS.
David, the reason that so many of us pay attention to his face painting is that he and his party (as well as the NDP, of course) searched for historical ooopses on so many opposition politicians and even candidates and then mercilessly shamed them for some silly indiscretion many years prior. In other words, hypocrisy by the Face Painter himself and the complete LPC that continues.
Doesn't every party do that? If politicians were as concerned about policy as they are about throwing "darts", we'd be living in utopia. Every campaign ad is the same garbage with the names changed. Leaders have plans and a vision to address some really serious issues. There is no one in politics in Canada with either of those.
I both agree and disagree.
Yes, every party tries to look at a candidate's background to see what there is that is embarrassing. What the LPC and their acolytes did, however, was not to say that candidate X says "X" now but yesterday he said "Y" but, instead, they demonized candidate X as a wholly illegitimate person who did not deserve to live in our society. In other words, the LPC et al attacked not a perceived hypocrisy by a candidate but they attacked the idea that the individual should exist.
Hyperbole? Not so much.
David, People "outside the political" world are measured for their stupid things by the people in their orbit. The (huge) differences in this case are: 1) they are not grasping for power; 2) they do not present themselves as leaders; 3) they do not have/use a powerful platform for influence, and, in this case; 4) they do not castigate huge constituencies, an audience of millions for moral failings.
The last point is key: "Blackface" is the ultimate hypocrisy for a person leading the cruel, unethical, destructive idea that identities (shapes and colours) should be ranked as more or less moral, therefore more or less deserving in our community. This is why people will correctly remember, be angry, and hold him accountable for his choice.
Of course, he deserves condemnation for it. But if you do something legal but stupid when you're 20, should that limit what you can accomplish with your life? As the leader of a country, are you not expected to do and say the right things? As you age, are you not able to look back on stupid things you did, call them stupid, and say that others shouldn't do the same thing? Is that hypocrisy or growth...or both?
Trudeau has now been held accountable for actions, and in a typical Trudeau fashion, it's slow, ineffective, and far behind schedule. Which was worse? Blackface or SNC? Blackface or Tofino? Blackface or India? Blackface or the most recent deficit? I could go on for paragraphs, but of his failings, Blackface is the least of my concerns compared to the choices available.
Does that make sense? I'm not excusing it; I'm saying it's far from the worst thing he did.
I'll add, based on experience hiring, managing, and leading people, that if this detail were available about a hire, someone being considered for leadership, it would give me pause. Of course people change (nobody knows this better than I), but patterns of behaviour exist, and the onus would be on the candidate to convince me they were not the same person.
It does make sense. It's objectively far from the worst thing he's done to our country and people.
I'm a white, middle-aged, male, deeply flawed human, and proud 5th generation Canadian. THAT hypocrisy will be hard for me to forget.
That's how I feel about SNC. That was the back-breaker for me. Everyone is deeply flawed at some level, but that hypocrisy was too much to ever support again.
I agree with your view on his blackface period. Lets get real folks...young people make mistakes.
CF, you are right, young people do make mistakes but the Face Painter himself and the LPC started witch hunts on CPC MPs, candidates, etc. looking for any similar historic foolishness and then attempted to hound such candidates, etc. from staying public life. In other words, CF, they were and are hypocrites.
On that Ken, we agree completely. Don't expect perfection if you can't provide it.