With his cabinet sorted out, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can now focus on the one thing that falls to him alone: ensuring national unity.
Hold on, didn’t he name Chrystia Freeland his minister of intergovernmental affairs and task her with this specific job? Not entirely. Freeland will be expected to make inroads with the provinces, and one of the first meetings in her new role will be with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney late Monday afternoon. While she’s a key point person, the main job of the prime minister of Canada — pretty much the only job, when it comes down to it — is keeping the country together.
That is why the most worrisome thing that came out of an election that left the country with worries stacked like cordwood was Trudeau’s confession that national unity had greatly suffered under his watch. Worrisome because it was clear from his remarks that not only did the prime minister have no real sense of why this was the case, he didn’t seem to have much grasp of his place in the scheme of things. As he told reporters in the dying days of the campaign, his ambition as prime minister had been to bring the country together. “Yet,” he mused, “we find ourselves more polarized, more divided in this election than in 2015. I wonder how, or if, I could have made sure we were pulling Canadians together?”
He was right about one thing: Not only are Canadians more divided today than they were four years ago, they are about as divided as they’ve been in his lifetime. If the recent polling is to believed, Canadians under Trudeau simply don’t like one another all that much. Interprovincial indifference is now the default setting, punctuated by strong pockets of mutual contempt.
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Whoops a double post.
He really doesn’t care about national unity just as long as Quebec and Ontario dominate. His main concern is to get a seat on the ineffective U.N. which would suit him personally as long as it remains ineffective.
It’s a question of priorities and his first one is a seat at the U.N. He really doesn’t care about our national unity just so long as Quebec and Ontario dominate.