Trump temper tantrum

 

"It's meant to be our 51st state."  !!!  

The bottom line on this ridiculous and dangerous shit is that Justin Trudeau has said "nasty" things about Trump.

Also...

Canada in trouble

[Trump] mocked Canada PM Justin Trudeau for “running right down to Mar-a-Lago” to see him after he threatened the country with tariffs in a Truth Social post. Trudeau demonstrated incredible, shocking weakness in this moment. Trump now feels he is a sucker who is easily manipulated - the worst possible situation for healthy US-Canada relations. It is painfully clear that Trudeau does not understand Donald Trump or how to deal with him. At all. Good luck, Canada.

  Meidas Touch

To be fair, Trump, as a convicted felon, is not permitted to enter Canada, but maybe Trudeau could have at least waited until Trump is sworn in.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Should Trudeau keep the "do"?

Coronavirus closures may lead to new trends in hair styles.  Ronahair.

Comin' out of the woodwork now

A third incident in which Justin Trudeau wore blackface has been reported, in yet another damaging blow to the Canadian prime minister’s image, just weeks ahead of the country’s general election.

Global News says it received the material earlier this week, but held off on publishing the material until journalists could determine its authenticity. On Thursday, a member of the Liberal campaign confirmed the video. In a short, undated video clip published by Global News on Thursday, Trudeau is seen in blackface, waving. His arms and legs also appear to be painted.

  Guardian

The video is reported to have been shot in the late 90s.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Trudeau admitted he could not remember how often he had worn blackface makeup. “I am wary of being definitive about this because of the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” he told reporters in Winnipeg.

  Guardian

That's not good.

Justin Trudeau sinks deeper in the shit

Time calls this "brownface".  It's so black I didn't see him on first viewing.

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001. TIME has obtained a photograph of the incident.

The photograph has not been previously reported. The picture was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala. It shows Trudeau, then the 29-year-old son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, wearing a turban and robes with his face, neck and hands completely darkened.

  Time

That's very recent as these things go. I'm surprised it hadn't come out sooner. Perhaps they con't concern themselves about that kind of thing in Canada.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday night, following TIME’s publication of the photo, Trudeau apologized: “I shouldn’t have done that. I should have known better and I didn’t. I’m really sorry.” When asked if he thought the photograph was racist, he said, “Yes it was. I didn’t consider it racist at the time, but now we know better.”

"We" knew better in 2001.

And now that he's been busted, he'll get in front of the next one:

Trudeau said he wore blackface “makeup” in high school to sing “Day-O,” a Jamaican folk song famously performed by African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. “I deeply regret that I did that,” he said.

[...]

The Liberal Party leader has championed minority groups during his nearly four years as prime minister and made his embrace of Canada’s many cultures a major part of his leadership. At least seven of the 35 members of Trudeau’s cabinet are from ethnic minorities.

Making it doubly sad, because the next PM might not be so progressive.

Trudeau was also criticized by artist Robert Davidson, who is a member of the Haida indigenous people, because of a tattoo on his left arm that is based on the artist’s work. Davidson said in 2016 that the Trudeau government’s approval of a natural gas facility opposed by the Haida showed the prime minister was not genuinely sensitive to concerns of Canada’s indigenous population.

[...]

This is a critical moment for Trudeau, who began his re-election campaign on Sept. 11 under the cloud of a scandal over whether he pressured his then-attorney general to drop corruption charges against a large Canadian engineering firm.

Yeah, that was probably worse.

UPDATE:  There's more.

UPDATE:

You'll need sunglasses for this brilliance

A girl can dream, can't she?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Beautiful letters

President Trump has sent highly unusual, Sharpie-written notes to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at least twice.

[...]

The May 1–7, 2017, issue of Bloomberg Businessweek — featuring a picture of Trudeau headlined "The Anti-Trump" — caught President Trump's attention, according to 4 sources with direct knowledge. Trump tore the cover off the magazine and wrote on it, in silver Sharpie, something to the effect of "Looking good! Hope it's not true!" according to these sources.

Before the White House mailed this diplomatic correspondence, it went through the normal clearance process inside the National Security Council. While some White House staff thought it was not the appropriate way to communicate with a foreign leader, they ultimately figured "it was done in good fun and would be interpreted as positive outreach," said a source with direct knowledge of what happened.

The Canadian ambassador thought it was a prank, according to 2 sources familiar with the situation. He called the White House to check, and a White House official confirmed to the ambassador that the note was real.

[...]

Months later, on Dec. 8, 2017, President Trump falsely told a rally crowd in Pensacola, Florida, that the U.S. has a trade deficit with Canada. Around that same time, Trump also mailed Trudeau a document purporting to show that the U.S. had a trade deficit with Canada.

[...]

Trump wrote in Sharpie on the document: "Not good!!" or something to that effect, the source recalled. Trump's document only mentioned America's deficit in the trade of goods and ignored its surplus in services (the two combined would gave the U.S. its overall surplus).

A few weeks later, Trump received a handwritten letter from Trudeau.

[...]

"Dear Donald," Trudeau wrote in the letter dated Dec. 20, 2017, according to a source with direct knowledge of its contents, which 2 other sources confirmed. "It's been a busy year! Enjoy the Christmas holidays — you deserve it."

"One thing," Trudeau added. "You gave a great speech in Pensacola, but you were slightly off on the balance of trade with Canada. USTR says so! All the best for 2018, Justin."

[...]

Trudeau enclosed a printout of Canada's informational page from the website of the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Trudeau underlined the section on the USTR website, which at the time reported that "the U.S. goods and services trade surplus with Canada was $12.5 billion in 2016." Trudeau circled the $12.5 billion and drew a cheeky little smiley face next to it, according to a source with direct knowledge.

[...]

In a conversation in the White House last year, Trump told aides he thought Canada was "the worst" country to negotiate with.

[...]

Trump now says very little about Trudeau, according to an adviser, and believes he and his trade representative Bob Lighthizer got the better of the Canadians in their trade negotiations.

[...]

Trump privately refers to Trudeau as a "wise guy," per sources with direct knowledge. He describes Trudeau as young and cocky, and he resents it when Trudeau comments on American politics.

[...]

Trump has also privately described Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland as "very nasty," according to senior administration officials.

Trump was pleased with the optics of the G7 last year, an adviser said. Trump says he dominated Trudeau there, the adviser added, and loves the viral photo of himself sitting with his arms crossed as world leaders hover over him. Trump also relished leaving the summit early — snub to Trudeau, who Trump said had treated him with disrespect.

[...]

Last week, Trump chided Macron on Twitter for "purporting" to represent the U.S. in conversations with Iran.

[...]

Trump's bromance with France's 41-year-old leader Emmanuel Macron has faded, and Trump privately places Macron in a similar “wise guy” category as the 47-year-old Trudeau.

  Axios

Impeach.

Trudeau's true colors?

WSe're only a month out of learning that Canada's young prime minister asked his indigenous attorney general to drop fraud and bribery charges against a company he likes. She quit under pressure instead.

Justin Trudeau has apologized for a sarcastic response to indigenous activists protesting against the contamination of drinking water, admitting on Thursday that he handled the situation poorly.

“From time to time I’m in situations where people are expressing concerns … I always try to be respectful [but] I didn’t do that last night. I lacked respect towards them and I apologize for that,” the Canadian prime minister told reporters.

[...]

“Prime Minister Trudeau, people in Grassy Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning,” said the woman, who also attempted to unfurl a banner in front of the podium. “You committed to addressing this crisis,” she shouted as she was pushed out by event security.

Trudeau responded by saying: “Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate it,” prompting cheers and laughter from the donors in attendance.

  The Guardian

That IS ugly.  Trumpian, in fact.

[...]

“We all have a long way to go in building meaningful relationships with First Nations; reconciliation, and more. This is not a step in that direction. Also – this is what I look at and deal with every day in the House; the smug grin, the arrogant laughs, the dismissiveness,” tweeted Conservative parliamentarian Michelle Rempel.

The incident comes amid more dismal polling for Trudeau, which show support for him continues to fall: Trudeau’s approval levels are now below those of the US president, Donald Trump, according to polling data from Ipsos Reid.

Oh my.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Pod Save the World

Tommy and Ben explain why Trump's second North Korea summit was a total disaster. Then they discuss escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Justin Trudeau's troubles in Canada, a can't-miss rant about Jared Kushner and Netanyahu's indictment.

Click here to listen

Trudeau's own Trumpian obstruction may do him in

There were two hearings yesterday that rocked their respective governments.  Cohen in the US, and an ex-Attorney General in Canada.

Trudeau was detonated today by his former Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada's first Aboriginal A-G. She just testified in Parliament, in meticulous detail, how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked.

She refused to bend the law for Trudeau's cronies. But they didn't stop. Trudeau; his chief of staff; his principal secretary; even the finance minister. They met her ten times, phoned her ten more. trying to get the charges dropped. She wouldn't. So Trudeau fired her as A-G.

The story leaked out earlier this month, but it was all anonymous sources. The former A-G herself didn't say a word, saying she was bound by attorney-client privilege and cabinet confidences. She was effectively gagged; so Trudeau was the only one talking.

Trudeau took advantage of her enforced silence to claim she supported him and everything was fine. After all, when he fired her as A-G, he appointed her to the minor post of veterans minister. When she heard him make that boast, she quit as veterans minister. He was shocked.

Then suddenly Gerald Butts, Trudeau's right hand man -- his best friend since college -- resigned, claiming he had done nothing wrong. Which is odd. It looked like a compromise -- Butts left, so Wilson-Raybould met with the cabinet and the caucus again.

Wilson-Raybould still didn't say anything publicly. She hired a retired Supreme Court judge as her lawyer, to advise her on what she could say. Under pressure, the Liberal dominated Parliamentary committee invited her to testify, and Trudeau grudgingly waived some privilege.

So today she testified. In great detail. Exactly who pressured her. Exactly how. Exactly when. She named names. Including the prime minister himself. Here's her statement: Transcript at the National Post

It's against the law to pressure the Attorney General to obstruct a criminal prosecution. Here's Canada's Criminal Code. Section 139(2) is obstruction -- it carries a 10-year prison term. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/C-46.pdf 

That's an amusing clip, and if she still wants the job, I wish her the best of luck.

Looks like we might share something new with Canada: a criminal at the head of government.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

"Donald" doesn't appear to be appreciating this

Since we can't see him until that end bit, I don't know if his obvious displeasure is with Trudeau's comments about standing up for Canadians and the need to knock back the tariffs, or if he's miffed that the upstart has the nerve to address him as "Donald" in such a public way.  Check it out.  See what you think.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

It's personal

I have to believe these sustained attacks on Canada have to do with something about Trudeau from the beginning that Trump didn't like.  What was it?  Did Obama like him or something?

Hmmmmm...

Jesus Christ, the bottom feeders are in charge

Top advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump heaped unprecedented insults on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, bringing U.S.-Canada relations to a five-decade low — in an attempt, one of the advisers suggested, to impress North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

  Canadian Star

Or Trump. Same thing, maybe.

In interviews on CNN on Fox News, Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, and one of his top aides on trade, Peter Navarro, slammed Trudeau with a series of disparaging adjectives, from “amateurish” to “dishonest” to “sophomoric,” and accused him of a backstabbing “betrayal” of the president and other allies.

Those are exactly Trump's faults. I've noticed since Karl Rove this is a ubiquitous GOP tactic. Take your worst traits and claim they describe your opponents.

“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door. And that’s what bad-faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference. That’s what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did,” Navarro said.

[...]

“You just don’t behave that way. It’s a betrayal. Essentially double-crossing,” he said.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Trudeau plans to retaliate to Trump’s 25 per cent tariff on Canadian steel and 10 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum with an equivalent dollar amount worth of tariffs on dozens of U.S. products, from coffee to boats to bourbon. Navarro claimed that this retaliation is “nothing short of an attack on our political system.”

Who is this idiot fuckhead? He belongs on Fox News, not in a top government position.  But that certainly doesn't make him stand out from the White House crowd.

Taking a side trip...

It wasn’t that long ago that Peter Navarro was the butt of jokes in Washington.

Now, or at least for the moment in the topsy-turvy world of the Trump White House, it looks like he just got the last laugh.

Navarro, a trade deficit hawk, has long advocated for President Donald Trump to impose trade restrictions on national security grounds and to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

  Market Watch

I'm guessing he's still the butt of jokes. And not just in Washington.  (This article was written just before Gary Cohn resigned and Navarro took his place.)

A trade publication recently suggested that Navarro is set for a promotion into Trump’s inner circle.

Simon Johnson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said the concern is that Navarro will push Trump to “step outside” the multilateral trade system.

[...]

“The irony is not that we built and were central to the creation of the multilateral trade system but that it was deliberately, 100% built entirely with the goal of America first,” Johnson said.

“It was in the interest of the U.S. to set up market economies with relatively free and open trade as a counterweight to the Soviet Union,” he said.

So, Putin wouldn't have liked it, would he? Another reason to consider conspiracy by the Trump administration in collusion with Russia.

“Reports used to depict Mr. Navarro as stalking the halls near the Oval Office waiting for opportune moments to slip in and bend the President’s ear. Apparently, he succeeded,” wrote Lawrence Martin, writing in Canada’s Globe and Mail, who called him “Ottawa’s worst nightmare.”

Back to Trump's Trudeau feud...

Kudlow explained: Trump is attacking Trudeau because he is trying to show Kim that he is tough.

  Canadian Star

Or that he's an asshole, but Kim already knows this.  What would Trump have done to show Kim how tough he is if Trudeau hadn't said anything at all?

Trudeau’s Saturday criticism of Trump’s trade policy, Kudlow said on CNN, had made Trump look weak just before the president departed for his talks with Kim.

If the shoe fits.

And Trump, Kudlow said, “is not going to permit any show of weakness on a trip to negotiate with North Korea.”

“Kim must not see American weakness. It’s that short,” Kudlow said.

He's already seen it! He's getting his Singapore trip and luxury lodging paid for through the Americans. Apparently Trump still thinks talking shit about Kim on Twitter is what made Kim agree to meet.

Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said, “Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries.” She added: “And perhaps we refrain particularly from ad hominem attacks when it comes to our relationships with our allies.”

“We use fact-based arguments,” she said.

She'll be getting a nickname shortly.

UPDATE:

Wait.  It's worse.



Did Trudeau a favor by showing up?

Jesus, this clown takes the cake, and that's saying a lot, considering the Trump circus.

Take backs are Trump's signature move

Journalists traveling on Air Force One to Singapore with Trump had been told that the US had decided to be part of the G7 joint communique, which represented a minimal show of unity amid deep disagreements between Trump and the other six leaders over trade. The reporters only discovered when the plane landed on the Greek island of Crete to refuel that the president had changed his mind.

  The Guardian

And why did he change his mind? Because Justin Trudeau said something he didn't like: "US Tariffs were kind of insulting" and he "will not be pushed around" according to Trump's tweet.

Even for a presidency as capricious as Trump’s, his action marked a new blurring of lines between his personal feelings towards other leaders, and US government policy.

It's not new. He's only always been acting and reacting on his personal feelings.

A few minutes before Trump sent out his inflammatory tweets, his hawkish national security security adviser, John Bolton, appeared to anticipate them by sending a tweet of his own, deriding the G7 summit he had just attended.

“Just another G7 where other countries expect America will always be their bank. The President made it clear today. No more,” Bolton said.

The two of them were probably licking each others wounded egos and pumping each other up to post indignant and retaliatory tweets.

The tweets also represent a blow to the French president Emmanuel Macron and the German chancellor Angela Merkel, who believed they had brokered a deal to smooth over tensions on US-European trade.

They still don't know Trump.

The communique said the leaders of the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Japan agreed on the need for “free, fair, and mutually beneficial trade” and the importance of fighting protectionism.

“We strive to reduce tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers and subsidies,” the statement said.

And Trump told his people not to sign it.

Little Lord Trump won't be Macron's friend after this

In fact, he may refuse to go to the summit.

Emmanuel Macron has called on other members of the G7 to stand up to Donald Trump’s trade policies in the face of what he described as the threat of a new US “hegemony”.

The French president was speaking alongside the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is hosting the G7 summit in Quebec amid sharp disagreements between the US president and the six other leaders of industrialized liberal democracies over trade, climate change and the nuclear deal with Iran.

Macron called on other G7 leaders not to water down a joint communique at the end of the summit, at the expense of shared values, simply in an effort to win Trump’s signature, warning that a “G6 plus one” outcome was possible.

Both Trudeau and Macron emphasised the importance of dialogue and courtesy at the summit, which begins on Friday.

  Guardian

And we all know that Trump can't do dialogue and courtesy.

Trudeau described the tariffs as “unilateral and illegal” and the national security pretext as “risible”.

Surely he knows Trump doesn't know what "risible" means.

Macron was even more emphatic, calling on the other G7 members to resist what he warned was a potential US drift towards “further isolationism and “crude hegemony”.

[...]

“The six other countries of the G7 represent a market which is bigger than the American market,” the French president said. “I believe in cooperation and multilateralism because I will resist hegemony with all my strength. Hegemony is might makes right. Hegemony is the end of the rule of law.”

Yeah, he doesn't know what "hegemony" means, either.

[H]e argued that other countries should be ready to have a “G6 plus one” outcome, sticking to a text that enshrines their common values, even if Trump does not sign it.

“The desire for all seven to sign a text can’t be stronger than our requirements for the contents of that text,” Macron said at a joint press conference with Trudeau in Ottawa on the eve of the summit. “I think we would be making an error if we said we are ready to give up everything, not to talk about the Paris accord or climate, or trade, just to have that signature.”

[...]

“We are all engaged in conflicts in Syria, in Iraq, in the Sahel, in different places in the world. We are allies. Our soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder to defend liberty and our values,” Macron said. “You can’t, among allies in this international context, start a trade war. For me it’s a question of principle.”

Principles: something else Trump doesn't have and apparently has no interest in cultivating.

Macron said the message of other G7 leaders to Trump on the Iran deal should be: “You’re not comfortable with an agreement signed by your predecessor, maybe just because it was signed by your predecessor, but don’t stop others from respecting it and don’t push Iran to leave, because today it’s the best protection we have.”

Yep. He'll be getting the cold shoulder if Trump does go to the G7 meeting.

And a nasty nickname on Twitter.

UPDATE:

He's heard. 

I don't know who he's addressing this tweet to, but if it's to me, my answer is: tell 'em yourself; you'll see them tomorrow.

Conciliation and loyalty won't guarantee you anything

He'll still sucker punch you. Just ask Michael Cohen. Or Justin Trudeau

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland - the Batman and Robin of Canadian foreign policy - just got played.

An authoritarian masquerading as the leader of the so-called "free world" just told them, in effect, to buzz off by imposing hefty tariffs on Canadian aluminium and steel imports.

[...]

Trudeau and Freeland calculated that if they only mollified the authoritarian at every disgusting turn rather than scold, let alone confront him, then he would reward them with a diplomatic bauble or two.

[...]

The corollary to Trudeau et al's circumventing, while simultaneously playing nicey-nice with an authoritarian, has been, of course, saying and doing nothing that might upset or offend the authoritarian.

[...]

Instead, Trudeau told an interviewer: "Donald Trump has demonstrated that he's a bit of a disruptive force. He does unpredictable things and sometimes they have positive impacts, sometimes they have negative impacts. It's not my job to opine on, you know, what it is he chooses to do."

[...]

One Canadian columnist heaped praise on Trudeau's "calm response" and "balancing act". "There are sound reasons why Trudeau has taken a deliberate, non-confrontational approach ... and so far [he has] managed to stay off his [Trump's] protectionist radar," the scribe wrote.

[...]

"By organizing a grass-roots network of American officials, lawmakers and businesses, Canada is hoping to contain Mr Trump's protectionist and nationalist impulses," the NYT correspondent wrote, apparently not realising that Trudeau's unique bypass-the-president gambit isn't that unique at all.

In any event, so much for "staving off" and "containing" the authoritarian's nativist and protectionist impulses.

  alJazeera

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He's a High School Girl

.

His "new found friend."  LOL   Little Donnie has a new friend.

Just wait until Trudeau says something bad about him.

..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

So That's Why Obama Brought Trudeau to Washington

The day began with a elaborate bit of bilateral cinematography: a military brass band, a cannon salute and hundreds of flag-waving onlookers greeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in town for the first state dinner involving a Canadian in 19 years.

  Huffington Post 3/10/16

You had to wonder at the time what was coming. Well, I wondered, anyway.  I figured the purportedly liberal Trudeau had to be told who he wasn't going to get away with being.

Here it is...

Canada’s foreign affairs minister signed off on export permits for a controversial $15bn weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, a spokesperson for Stephane Dion confirmed to Middle East Eye. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs has signed the export permit for Light Armoured Vehicles … to be sold to Saudi Arabia,”

[...]

"The decision to authorize export permits for the Saudi arms deal despite its obvious incompatibilities with Canadian export controls is disconcerting and disappointing," Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of anti-war group Project Ploughshares, told Middle East Eye.

[...]

A Canadian minister would not normally sign export contracts himself, but a memo from Global Affairs Canada obtained by The Globe said: “This exceptional measure is warranted by the high public profile and dollar value of these proposed exports.”

  Middle East Eye

Yeah, and something Obama said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had insisted his Liberal government was bound to uphold the controversial weapons contract, which was signed under the previous Conservative government.

The Liberals have essentially described the contract as a done deal, and Trudeau defended it by saying that “a change of government does not endanger everything that was previously signed”.

[...]

But Canadian laws require that an export permit be secured before any transaction is carried out. The Conservatives only approved minor permits for the export of technical data, The Globe reported, meaning that approval for the main permits fell to the Liberals.

[...]

Canadian weapons export controls require Ottawa to closely monitor exports to countries with a persistent record of human rights abuses, unless the government can demonstrate “that there is no reasonable risk that the goods might be used against the civilian population”.

[...]

Earlier this year, Amnesty International called on weapons exporting countries – including Canada, the US and UK – to stop arming Saudi Arabia and accused them of “aiding a campaign that’s bombing, killing and starving civilians [in Yemen]".

So maybe Mr. Trudeau is just a pretty face after all.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trudeau's First Days

Canada's prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he told US President Barack Obama that Canadian fighter jets would withdraw from fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

  Yahoo

Go Canada!

But he gave no timeline.

Oh. Of course. Appease the voting base with words. Do nothing.

His new Liberal government will be "moving forward with our campaign commitments in a responsible fashion," Trudeau said.

"We want to ensure that the transition is done in an orderly fashion."

Who can argue with that?

Jesus.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Canadians Replace Harper

Good riddance to Stephen Harper.

Liberal Party candidate and son of a previous PM, Justin Trudeau has been elected in Canada. Sadly but logically, he also backs Keystone XL pipeline.  Also, sadly, apparently he is pro-Israel as is.

"My friends, we beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vision that brings Canadians together," Trudeau, 43, told a crowd of cheering supporters in Montreal.

"This is what positive politics can do."

  Yahoo

Where have we heard that before?

Let us hope that young Mr. Trudeau does a better job for Canadians' hopes than Mr. Obama has done for ours.

He may want to have this picture erased from the web:

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.