Oh, no, Canada!
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2018. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 6 at 1:37 PM Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a political pickle. Trudeau and his team are accused of pressuring Canada’s first Native Canadian attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to make a deal with a Quebec-based engineering firm, and of demoting her when she refused.
The whole thing is messier than poutine. Jane Philpott, another senior member of team Trudeau, resigned Monday. Gerald Butts, a top Trudeau aide, resigned last week, and is delivering testimony Wednesday. Some are wondering whether Trudeau himself will be able to hang on. But wait! It then turned out that, earlier that day, he said that he had hoped someone would ask him about quantum computing! It was staged! A setup! “Is Justin Trudeau just a big, hot phony?” asked Jezebel, answering: “Yes. The answer is yes.”In December 2017, Canada’s ethics commissioner ruled that Trudeau had violated Canadian ethics laws with two all-expenses-paid trips to the Bahamas. The island was owned by the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims .
What happened next is what you’d expect if you are a person who is active on Twitter or watches cable news: People had a field day. Trudeau and his political correctness had gone too far this time! Trudeau corrected a woman! Fox News was on the case!Going to India is not, in and of itself, scandalous. But Trudeau made a few missteps when he went there in February 2018 .
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