Friday, May 18, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW LONG CAN YOU "NOT BE STEPHEN HARPER" AS YOUR CHIEF MERIT? - CANADA'S JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT JUST FOR HIS MANY APOLOGIES

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COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN



“Sorry not sorry: is Canada apologising too much?

“Canada’s sorriest prime minister is getting on people’s nerves. ‘What else does he do, besides apologize for things that happened years and years ago’”



Trudeau is a big disappointment for many Canadians.

And despite a huge amount of public goodwill when he started out, he has achieved remarkably little of real substance.

His only great merit has been that he is not Stephen Harper, the thin-lipped, grimacing Conservative who preceded him - and whose electoral success was largely the result of the Liberal Party being in self-inflicted tatters for years. Harper ranks in the opinion of a great many Canadians as the most unpleasant personality ever to hold the office.

But you can "not be Stephen Harper" for only so long, then you really have to show what you are. So far, it's not too promising, I am sorry to say.