Just over four years ago, Justin Trudeau strode in late fall sunshine toward Rideau Hall like a conquering Roman general, flanked by his gender-balanced cabinet.
By contrast, there was nothing triumphant about the way Trudeau’s ministers trudged toward the Governor-General’s residence to be sworn in on a chilly winter’s afternoon on Wednesday, their leader nowhere in sight. This is a government that has become aware belatedly that much of the country has tired of its vainglorious, self-congratulatory approach.
The most important change to emerge from the day may well be that the Liberal government now has an operations committee, chaired by Dominic Leblanc. A central complaint about the Trudeau government’s first four years was that it reflected the capricious personality of its prime minister, often more excited about the initial idea than in implementation. It seems to have finally dawned that it is time to put away childish things – the costumes, the photo ops, the posturing – and become a grown-up government that actually executes on its agenda.
For the rest, it was largely window-dressing.
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Too much time in a hot tub in places like Canmore or in the Laurentians impressing the snow bunnies. What a dork. A clueless, useless dork. Worse, a dangerous dork. Screw the genders, dork. Not only myself but I believe the vast majority of common sense Canadians couldn’t care less about a gender-balanced cabinet. The entire cabinet could even be comprised of either all men OR all women. It doesn’t matter for Canada as long as they were genuinely the very best of the best. And Canada matters! Ability not optics.
Trudeau/optics:
Gender balance cabinet. Syrian refugee crisis mess. Cash for access debacle. The greatest apologist in history. Groping allegation. Continual photo ops. Never ending campaigning. Electoral reform… sort of. Trans Mountain pipeline (honest promise). Indigenous issues (honest promise). Marijuana legalization (kind of). Canada embarrassed internationally. Canada loss of respect internationally.
Hmmm. I wonder what ability over optics would actually look like. Oh my…
Trump/ability:
https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2019-03-09-the-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-so-far/