Trudeau, the Smugly 'Progressive' Feminist World Leader

"Canada is concerned about some of the positions Italy is taking in terms of LGBT rights."

"[There will be an opportunity to speaking further together about this and] other democratic principles that the world needs."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Hiroshima Group of 7 Summit

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take part in a working lunch session at the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, May 19, 2023. Photo by Ludovic Marin /Pool via Getty Images

Once again Justin Trudeau, coasting on his vision of himself as charismatic world leader embarrasses Canada. He is not himself embarrassed. Nothing can embarrass the man with a hide as thick as an elephant's. It isn't hard to bring to memory Trudeau's trip to China in anticipation of signing a much vaunted free trade deal, during which time he lectured Beijing's government elite on women's rights, and ultimately returned to Canada no trade deal signed for him to hoist in pride and prejudice.

Or when re-negotiating the NAFTA agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States, exhorting the other two countries to include a feminist agenda into the trade agreement. Priding the level of his mantle of 'feminist' extraordinaire, he used that gambit in other trade agreements, much to the consternation of those involved. Canadians have reached the point where they have reason to believe that other world leaders now have a tendency to shrink back lest they be contaminated when this man is around.

Justin Trudeau is fairly universally being criticized for his "repugnant" behaviour in lecturing his Italian counterpart, Italy's Giorgia Meloni on democratic values and virtues at the G7 meeting in Hiroshima last week. In fact, her incredulous body language and facial expressions spoke volumes even before she finally expressed a restrained opinion that Trudeau was 'misinformed' when he lectured her. Yet his brazen verbal assault in front of television cameras harmed not her, but her interlocutor.

 

The Saturday front page of the Milan Libero newspaper. Libero

 Italian media had a field day feasting on the rank hypocrisy of a man whose actions go a long way to speaking more raucously and honestly than his words. While PM Giorgia Meloni generously withheld condemnation of the irritatingly irrational lecture she was lashed with, she informed reporters that her Canadian counterpart was a "victim" of "fake news"; a response whose restraint is admirable. Trudeau, she went on was a "bit rash" in failing to understand that she has not changed existing legislation on LGBTQ issues in Italy.

Her own personal opinion is that every child deserves to be raised by a mother and a father. In fact, medical science appears to support just that; the vital importance in a child's life of a father and a mother. Aside from that Ms. Meloni was in defence of her government's position, following court rulings with respect to matters concerning LGBTQ issues. The Libero newspaper based in Milan displayed a photo of Trudeau in blackface on its front page, the headline reading "This buffoon wants to teach us lessons". 

Host Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia commented on Ms. Meloni's grimace under pain of lecture by Trudeau as that it "really sums up what all of us think of the repugnant, incompetent Trudeau". Perhaps Ms. Panahi is aware that many Canadians echo that sentiment of their prime minister's incompetent, arrogant behaviour. Strident environmentalist that he is, his constant jetting around the world and across the second-largest country of the world belies his dedication to saving the world in the finer interests of exposing the world at large to the sterling presence of an admirable world leader.

It is, of course, Italy's business alone that their government has informed city councils in Italy to put an end to officially recording both parents in same sex couples and to limit the records of parentage to biological parents, a move that has displeased gay rights groups where same-sex parents are unrecognized by Italian law. Italian Prime Minister Meloni might have lectured her Canadian counterpart on his country's euthenasia laws.

Where Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), offers end-of-life services to those who live with excruciating pain, and whose illness is swiftly concluding their life's trajectory, preparing to extend state sanctioned euthanasia to the mentally incapable, to the homeless who no longer wish to live in poverty, and to children suffering mental and physical distress, pain, and incurably debilitating illnesses. Italy has no such euthanasia laws, where they are strictly forbidden.