Roe decision has no impact in Canada but Trudeau sees political gold

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Justin Trudeau could very nicely be the luckiest politician I’ve ever coated. At a time when his authorities is in disarray from issues with passports, airports, immigration, the army and when he himself is dealing with allegations of interfering within the police investigation right into a bloodbath — alongside comes a problem to distract.

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On Friday morning, the long-expected choice of america Supreme Court docket to overturn Roe v. Wade was launched. In sensible phrases, the choice means nothing north of the border. Now we have totally different legal guidelines, a unique political system. Our court docket system could be very totally different, so nothing will change in Canada due to this choice.

It’s, nevertheless, political gold for Trudeau.

“As we speak is a tough day,” Trudeau stated as he reacted to the American court docket choice from Kigali, Rwanda.

He known as the choice an assault on freedom and rights. He known as it horrific.

“Let me be actually, actually clear. In Canada, we are going to all the time defends ladies’s rights to decide on,” Trudeau stated.

For those who’ve adopted Trudeau politically, then that this has been his place for a very long time. It’s a place he restated just some weeks in the past when information that this choice leaked out of the U.S. Supreme Court docket.

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Nothing has modified besides the chance for Trudeau to make use of an American story for his political achieve.

He took no questions from reporters after he and International Minister Melanie Joly spent six minutes denouncing the American court docket choice. He made no feedback concerning the issues in Canada, just like the strains and waits individuals are dealing with to get a passport to go away the nation like he does with such regularity.

There was no potential for journalists to ask Trudeau to elucidate how he defines “undue affect” in a police investigation or why he thought the pages of handwritten notes turned over to the general public inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia bloodbath didn’t initially embody the pages that confirmed Trudeau’s workplace attempting to intervene with the investigation.

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The timing of the U.S. court docket announcement was excellent.

He loves utilizing American information for his personal profit. After promising new gun management measures for years, his authorities swiftly rushed out a plan after mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Texas.

His newest gun management measures gained’t make Canadian streets safer, however he did get to play off the hype and emotion of American information to push his agenda. Now, he’s utilizing the hype and emotion of a unique American information story to dodge critical questions on interfering in a police investigation.

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We all know it’s not the primary time Trudeau and his authorities have felt snug inserting themselves into felony issues they shouldn’t be concerned in. They did it earlier than with SNC-Lavalin. Whereas that was a company case with a anonymous, faceless firm, on this case he was utilizing the bloodbath of twenty-two individuals to additional his political objectives.

It’s not solely flawed legally and ethically, it’s disgusting and tasteless.

Trudeau’s supporters will say this by no means occurred, that he’s denied it, however that’s not the case. He didn’t say he by no means pressured the RCMP to launch data to assist his purpose of tabling new gun laws. He stated there was no “undue affect or strain.”

Meaning there was affect and strain utilized — he simply thinks it was acceptable to take action.

Trudeau is hoping that by speaking concerning the American court docket ruling on abortion, you’ll neglect about his issues and transfer on. We are able to’t let that occur.

blilley@postmedia.com