Justin Trudeau is a disgusting hypocrite

When a politician holds a press conference and orders two other politicians to stand behind him like mannequins while he reads a prepared statement, that's serious business.


This piece of staged solemnity took place earlier this week in Ottawa, the home of staged solemnity. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was flanked by two silent, grim-faced cabinet ministers: Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.


All the choreographed scene lacked was a drum roll or fanfare appropriate to the affected profundity of the occasion.


The former Liberal Party prince is facing a mutiny orchestrated by a band of anxious backbenchers fearful for their jobs - with public opinion polls suggesting Trudeau's government is doing so badly that much of the caucus is reportedly reaching for the nearest life jacket or, better yet, a large lifeboat to accommodate them all.

In a likely futile attempt to revive his lifetime political prospects and prove to Canada's largely white, male cognoscenti that he still has what it takes to remain prime minister -- at least for the time being -- the charming, irascible Trudeau has absorbed the tough, decisive Trudeau.


In effect, the prime minister declared diplomatic war on India -- a rising superpower and supposed ally -- based on "evidence" collected by the country's dysfunctional, scandal-ridden police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).


This "evidence," Trudeau says, supposedly proves that Indian "agents" have orchestrated a secret campaign "that poses a significant threat to public safety."


For its part, the RCMP claims that India's covert machinations amount to "serious criminal activity in Canada" involving coercion, threats and murder of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.


Aside from a number of police and politicians, no one has seen a morsel of the "evidence" to judge its strength - but I digress.


Trudeau said he asked New Delhi to be nice and help the RCMP by cooperating with the ongoing investigation. Not surprisingly, New Delhi told Trudeau and Co. to take a long, lonely walk - to put it kindly.


The diplomatic war began. Trudeau fired six Indian diplomats stationed in Canada, including the Indian High Commissioner. In a predictable retaliation, India ordered six Canadian diplomats to pack their bags and return home immediately.

The aforementioned white, male cognoscenti - who cheer wars of any kind - applauded Trudeau for standing up to state-sanctioned "terrorism" and insisted that India would pay "a heavy price" for what the Prime Minister and the RCMP believe New Delhi's agents are doing to Canadians in Canada - even though none of them are privy to the secret "evidence."


As I said, Canada's white, male cognoscenti simply love war - diplomatic or not.


But here's the disgusting catch.


Trudeau, his cabinet and the familiar cadre of obsequious columnists and TV commentators are hypocrites.


They will, of course, refuse to admit it because they are incapable of examining themselves, let alone recognizing the blatant, obvious proof of their hypocrisy.


In defense of his decision to expel the Indian diplomats, Trudeau said, "Canada is a country rooted in the rule of law, and protecting our citizens is paramount."


Of course it is.


Trudeau's "I will hold the bad guys who do bad things to Canadians accountable" swagger is apparently limited by geography and which close "ally" is responsible for harming citizens he is tasked with protecting as prime minister.


Canada's white, male cognoscenti didn't bother to listen closely to what Trudeau said before reaching for their pom-poms.

We will never tolerate a foreign government threatening and killing Canadian citizens on Canadian soil - a profoundly unacceptable violation of Canadian sovereignty and international law," Trudeau said.


Let me paraphrase Trudeau for the hard of hearing.


If any country, especially Israel, threatens, coerces or kills Canadians in Lebanon or what remains of the human hellscape known as occupied Gaza, I will do nothing about it.


Sure, I could get my petty foreign minister to write a tweet or two "condemning" Israel's killing of an elderly Canadian couple who were seeking safe haven, and I could approve of her making a quick phone call to offer condolences to the surviving family.


This farce aside, my government and I have codified Israel's license to kill Canadians with impunity because our beloved friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would never break the rules of war or international law.

Despite my tough talk, Foreign Minister Joly and I will indeed "tolerate" the killing of Canadians by a "foreign government" so long as it does not commit its [war] crimes "on Canadian soil."

In our mendacious view, this does not constitute an “unacceptable violation” of “international law.”


Remember, Israel has the absolute, indisputable right to defend itself, and a few dead Canadians—blown into charred, unrecognizable pieces whose identities can only be determined by DNA testing—will not change our short-sighted minds.


We cannot risk the usual suspects inside and outside Parliament accusing my defeated government of being anti-Semitic or in cahoots with “terrorists.”


De facto: We will not summon the Israeli ambassador to Canada to Global Affairs headquarters to lecture him, nor will we expel Israeli diplomats in response to the killing of three Canadians in Lebanon by the Israeli military in recent weeks.


Is that clear to everyone?


If my portrayal of the true meaning of Trudeau's cynical, calibrated remarks offends his soon-to-be-unemployed cronies or any member of the white, male Canadian commentariat, I ask them to talk to Kamal Tabaja, the eldest son of 74-year-old Hussein and 69-year-old Daad Tabaja, who were incinerated by an Israeli missile fired by an Israeli pilot in late September.

This is a rhetorical request, because Trudeau has already forgotten her assassination. And the columnists rushing to write articles denouncing India's alleged crimes have never and will never demand that Israel "pay a heavy price" or denounce its documented crimes - whether the victims are a Canadian husband and wife who celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary last April or the more than 42,000 mostly Palestinian children and women, all victims of genocide.


I spoke with Tabaja, a Canadian citizen who lives and works in Bahrain.


He agreed with me. Prime Minister Trudeau is a real hypocrite.

"They did nothing with my parents," Tabaja said. "They didn't even bother to put out a press release. They just sent a tweet."


Tabaja said while it was right for Trudeau to hold India accountable, as any country that had "respect for itself" would immediately take "political and diplomatic action" if Canadian citizens were attacked by a foreign power, the killing of his parents had been "ignored."


After Trudeau's "disgraceful" double standards, Tabaja said he had written to the prime minister on behalf of his five still-grieving siblings, condemning his glaring failure to hold Israel similarly accountable.


He was waiting for a response.


Tabaja also agreed that Trudeau's heavy hand stops at the Israeli border and that it was inconceivable that this or any other prime minister would ever sanction Israel in the way Canada has sanctioned India.


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