LILLEY: Trudeau warn against politicians acting just like he does

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I’ve to marvel if Justin Trudeau ever listens to himself as he prattles on about democracy.

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He informed Canadians he needed to signal a coalition take care of the NDP to cease the polarizing and poisonous nature of Parliament, after which warned European politicians concerning the risks of cynical politicians exploiting fears.

In a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday, Trudeau stated that democracies want to make sure they’re working for the center class, “in order that financial frustrations don’t turn out to be fertile floor for populism, nativism, protectionism and the polarization in direction of extra excessive political beliefs.”

That appears like what occurred in Canada with the trucker convoy that took over Ottawa.

The truth that the system wasn’t working for a part of the inhabitants gave rise to a way of alienation, polarization and a few very excessive views. As an alternative of coping with the problems, although, Trudeau cynically used the protest to attain political factors and fanned the flames of anger among the many protesters by insulting them as being racist and misogynist earlier than they even arrived in Ottawa.

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Now he desires to warn different democratic international locations concerning the risks of those actions?

A number of members of the European Parliament have been having none of it and referred to as out Trudeau. Whereas a few of these EU MEPs are being dismissed as radicals, Trudeau’s file of doing the issues he warns towards runs deep.

“No person advantages when growing polarization, dysfunction or obstruction dominate our Parliament, when poisonous partisanship prevents us from agreeing on easy truths and details,” Trudeau stated Tuesday in asserting the take care of the NDP.

Let’s begin with agreeing on easy fact and details.

Trudeau was caught interfering in a felony court docket case involving corruption and when caught, stood earlier than the cameras and stated the story was false. Finally, the reality on SNC-Lavalin got here out however solely after Trudeau’s story had modified a number of instances.

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When parliamentary committees have been looking for solutions on the SNC-Lavalin affair, Trudeau’s Liberal MPs voted to finish the investigation. As MPs have been getting too shut for consolation on the WE Charity scandal, Trudeau shut down Parliament and dissolved the committees.

It was simply weeks in the past that Trudeau responded to a query within the Home from Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman by accusing her of standing with individuals waving swastikas. Lantsman is Jewish and the descendent of Holocaust survivors. When she requested for an apology, Trudeau refused and easily left the chamber.

Trudeau is, unquestionably, probably the most polarizing of the 4 prime ministers I’ve lined going again to Jean Chretien however he thinks it’s different people who find themselves being polarizing or poisonous.

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“Anyone who isn’t in settlement with Mr. Trudeau is certified as being poisonous,” Bloc Quebecois Chief Yves-François Blanchet stated Tuesday. “We’re in a democracy, and we’re not compelled to consider what he believes, to do what he instructions.”

But to Trudeau, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is handled as an obstacle to what he views as his pure proper to control. We noticed that in 2016 when he grew to become pissed off that the Conservatives and NDP have been delaying a vote and never transferring as shortly as he needed.

Trudeau stood up within the Commons, marched down the Chamber and grabbed the now late Conservative MP after which opposition whip Gord Brown by the arm to march him to his seat. In doing so, Trudeau elbowed New Democrat MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau within the chest.

His displeasure at being delayed was evident. His manner was that of an imperial prince being delayed by peasants.

So forgive me if I don’t take his phrases critically as he discusses these points. He deliverers the script ready by some handler within the backroom and hits all the suitable notes, however the phrases popping out of his mouth are meaningless.

If Trudeau is admittedly involved with the hazards of political polarization, he ought to look first to his personal phrases and actions and search to alter his personal methods.

blilley@postmedia.com