Justin Trudeau: Out of His Shallow Depth

"First and foremost, Canada's Conservatives recognize that Canada is a country that has been built by immigrants and first nations alike who have worked hard to build Canada and its pluralism. Canada is and should remain -- a country that welcomes newcomers."
"The question is under what principles and what policies. The question is how, not if."
"Dissembling the permanency of Trudeau's new immigration program at Roxham Road by closing the loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement [would be a reasonable first step at correction]."
Opposition immigration critic Michelle Rempel

"By sweeping away legitimate questions on his failed border policy with vile personal insults, it is Trudeau himself who is guilty of polarizing the debate."
"No one has done more to divide Canadians than he has."
Andrew Scheer, leader of the Parliamentary opposition, Conservative Party of Canada

Blain approached Trudeau and challenged him for his attitude toward 'Québécois de souche.' (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

"This intolerance regarding immigrants does not have a place in Canada. This intolerance of diversity, you do not have a place here."
"Madam, Canada was built by waves of immigration that were welcomed by the First Nations, who showed us how to build a strong society, and the people who come here, generation after generation to build stronger communities, this is what makes us stronger as a country and, madam, your intolerance does not have a place here."
"We are Liberals here, we know that diversity is a source of strength, never a source of weakness and madam, your fear, your fear of others, your intolerance does not have a place among us tonight. "Thank you very much, my friends. Thank you for being here, thanks for working hard and uniting people because we see that there will be intolerance in the coming months. There will be attacks in the coming months."
"But you must know that strength is to unite and not to scream, not to spread fear, not to spread intolerance, madam."
"Yes madam, I am tolerant of all perspectives, it is you, madam, who is intolerant, and you don't have a place in this beautiful gathering of Liberals. Thank you, friends."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responding to senior Quebecer Diane Blain, member of a nationalist group that has advocated against immigration     

Justin Trudeau imagines himself a sophisticated, well-versed and capable leader with a charismatic personality and an agenda on human rights and social equality second to none. Look a little closer and you see a clumsy, egotistical, bully quick to respond to perceived insults, and a little slow on the cognitive side. In fact, look even closer you may recognize many characteristics that are reflected in the personality of a more practised bully in a more powerful position in the world, more skilled at alienating those who disagree with him, but in this aspect of his character, Trudeau is a quick study.

Trump offends his allies, professes great admiration for the world's autocratic leaders who share many of his traits which he considers great attributes. They have far fewer constraints to work against their narcissistic schemes, and possibly elicit envy in the man who holds the position of the most powerful leader in the world of the most prosperous, influential and powerful country of the world. Justin Trudeau shares Trump's affinity for the kind of benevolent dictatorship that 'turns on a dime'. And he is most certainly wedded to the certainty that he is not to be questioned or held to account for any of his decisions.

And Justin Trudeau lives with the delusion that his values and priorities are the only ones worth pursuing, and like Trump, has contempt for those who question the values he presses upon his Canadian audience, much less other world leaders as well as the method by which he prioritizes them. He is as fully deficient as a leader as is Trump, whom he likes to pose against; the villain and the virtue-monger. What he has perfected is an irritating air of sanctimony that his actions mark as hypocrisy.

Aside from his personal characteristics he has shown himself a complete failure as this country's prime minister. Even his personality honed as 'sunny' turns quickly to snarls of contempt; the smiles for those who support him, the contempt for those who question him. The thing of it is, the number of Canadians who increasingly question Trudeau's agenda is now in majority territory, and growing. The dismay and alienation Canadians increasingly feel faced with a leader who incessantly promotes himself while in the process demoting Canada to negligible status on the world stage, a powerful symptom of his inability to grasp the issues that Canadians are most consumed with.

His smug insistence that other leaders of the free and democratic world have far to go to reach his level of angelic promotion of human rights has helped make him a figure of derision internationally as his persona is fully revealed. Would-be trading partners have not been eager to accept Trudeau's selective righteousness; his fixation is our downfall. From China to India, the Trans Pacific Pact to the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and the United States, he has botched it all right royally. But he feels this to be his royal prerogative; after all, he is right, everyone else wrong.

No one appreciates being patronized and Trudeau simply doesn't appear to be able or willing to curb his gushing enthusiasms and damning behaviours. Canada's traditionally staunchest allies, Great Britain and the United States look on with disbelief at Trudeau's unravelling of international relationships to prove the superiority of his sensitivity to human rights -- selectively so, to be sure, but irritating to any who become the target of his none-too-subtly-pointed accusations.

So yes, Canadians want some say in the direction their government takes. And that government should be concerned when a majority of those he is elected to serve, clearly become less than pleased with the incompetence and self-harm done their country by a self-serving and out-of-control prime minister whose rage turns on any who ask for an accounting of the man who feels none of his decisions require scrutiny.

Canada's intake of a quarter million immigrants a year is a reasonable accommodation to the country's needs and to the needs of those who wish to migrate here. When that number doubles by dint of people taking illegal measures to enter the country because they know that this government will tolerate the insolent rejection of our laws, creating great costs in accommodating their presence, burdening the nation's social welfare systems in the process we know we have a problem but the prime minister remains indifferent.

The border situation has a solution. Canada is under no obligation either at home by law or internationally, to accept the presence of those who flout our laws to gain entry. The RCMP should be given orders to escort those entering illegally across the border from the United States to a legal port of entry from which they will be returned to the Safe Country they had originally entered, legally or illegally. Those same people have the option of registering legally to apply to emigrate to Canada.

The hundreds of thousands of would-be immigrants who do apply through normal, legal channels have the ethical and moral right to have their applications processed as swiftly and firmly as possible, not held back by the weight of demands placed on the immigration system by hordes of illegals overwhelming it. Above all, Canada has the right and the obligation to itself to accept only those whom it feels will be a credit to Canada, not those who feel Canada will credit them, despite their contempt for its laws.