We obviously have a multi-talented prime minister. It turns out he can sing as well as do blackface. Or was this a complaint about his singing? I know how it is. You get together with some other Canucks in some foreign port and after a few cups of the local joy juice, you are all singing Alouette.
But karaoke is something else. It is very rude for someone to record another person’s attempt at a more difficult number. And besides, Trudeau needed to save his sense of humour for when he got back to parliament. Poilievre was lying in wait for him.
The entire parliament was waiting for the first attack on the prime minister by the new leader of the opposition. This is Justin’s third new leader of the opposition. I figured that the confrontation would be good for a few laughs. Yet, I missed the whole thing as my Internet and television were down when Justin Trudeau returned to the house of commons the other day.
Did Poilievre ask if he sang in New York as he did in London? Or did he just go for the laughs over Justin-flation?
My advice to Justin would have been to leave them laughing. Unless, of course, Mr. Poilievre made the continued mistake of exhibiting his total lack of knowledge of economics. In that case, a gentle and patient lecture on basic economics might be in order. Trudeau might even suggest a few helpful texts on the subject
But in this vein, I would like to publicly thank Linda McQuaig for writing in the Toronto Star the other day that Poilievre is the farthest thing from a populist. Linda is a very perceptive writer on politics. She obviously knows a populist when she sees one. And Poilievre is not included. She commented on that weasel’s time with Stephen Harper and suggested that he might just be Harper-Lite.
Actually, Pierre Poilievre keeps trying to be like Stephen Harper, except he lacks Harper’s sparkling personality. If anything, Mr. Poilievre reminds me of the shark in Bobby Darin’s 1959 swing version of Mack the Knife.
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