Justin Trudeau s Self-Immolation | The Free Press

Now, the promise of Trudeau the young, strapping progressive born into political royalty, with his ostensibly forward-looking ideas about medically assisted suicide, puberty blockers, and the suspension of truckers civil liberties is on the brink of imploding. 

Late Tuesday night, limousines clustered outside Parliament, as senior officials from Trudeau s Liberal Party feverishly debated how to right this ship and save the prime minister.

That emergency powwow took place four days after Canada s Parliament honored 98-year-old Ukrainian Yaroslav Hunka. The Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, introduced Hunka as a Ukrainian hero and Canadian hero who fought against the Soviet Union during World War II. The whole of Parliament rose to give him a standing ovation. It later emerged that Hunka did indeed fight the Soviets or, as Rota put it, the Russians but alongside the Nazis.

Hunka s appearance came as part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky s trip to Canada, where he hoped to bolster support for the war against Russia. Zelensky seemed unfazed by Parliament s honoring Hunka (he gave a fist pump in support) even though he is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust. (It s unclear how many people in Zelensky s family were killed. The president has said that his great-grandparents were murdered when the Nazis burned down their village, which was common practice during the war.)

But afterward, pretty much everyone else seemed horrified, and on Monday, Rota (like Trudeau, a member of the Liberal Party) apologized to the Jewish community, and on Tuesday, he resigned.

Trudeau refused to accept blame. Instead, he sought to link the controversy to Russia s disinformation campaign against Ukraine while acknowledging that the Hunka affair was deeply embarrassing to Parliament the leader of which is Justin Trudeau. Then, yesterday, he gave a short speech in which he blamed Rota for this horrendous violation which, he noted, hurt Jewish people as well as Polish people, Roma people, 2SLGTBQIA+ people, disabled people, racialized people.  

That debacle is competing for headline space with Trudeau s other recent catastrophe: his decision to blame India for an extrajudicial murder on Canadian soil.

via www.thefp.com

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. If none of these things were actually his fault, it would only be just.