Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government operate in a strange world, out of touch with the real world and the daily lives of ordinary Canadians.  For example:

  1. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s international Airbus flights have become party central for him and his cronies. They rang up $384,000 in food and liquor on only five of his most recent international flights.  When Trudeau went on a 10 day world tour in November, 2018, the food bill was $143,000, the cost of alcohol was $100,000 and included 53 bottles of wine and 53 cans of beer.  For Trudeau’s trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a G20 meeting (November 30 – December 1, 2018), the food bill on the Airbus was $103,000, liquor $923, with 57 bottles of wine and 38 cans of beer.  According to Global News, the average Canadian family spends $220 a week on groceries. The trip to Buenos Aires, alone, would pay for groceries for a single Canadian family for 470 weeks, or close to nine years.
  2. On June 10, 2019 Prime Minister Trudeau held a press conference to announce that there would be a ban on single use plastics such as plastic bags, knives & forks, and water bottles.

During the press conference, a journalist asked PM Trudeau, “What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics?”

Trudeau was startled by the question, stating, “Uh, we, uh, we have recently switched to drinking, uh, water bottles out of, uh, water out of, uh, when we have water bottles, uh, out of plastic, uh, sorry, away from plastic towards, uh, paper, um, like drink box water bottles sort of things.”

A 24 pack of boxed water sells on-line for US $44.96, a very expensive way of drinking water for a family and household servants.  However, Trudeau can well afford this, even though most Canadian families cannot.  One wonders if Trudeau and his family have ever considered turning on the taps at their residence to obtain their drinking water.

It is probable, however, that Trudeau will have the costs of the boxed water paid by the taxpayer, just like we pay for his children’s nanny.

  1. Prime Minister Trudeau claims that his carbon tax is not going to affect individual Canadians, announcing that it is revenue neutral. However, he excluded the fact that Canadians will be paying Goods and Services Tax (GST) on top of his carbon tax and that this GST on the carbon tax will raise $6.21 billion annually for the federal government by 2023.
  2. Our present Canadian government has been campaigning for three years for one of the rotating slots on the UN Security Council, believing that being elected to this seat will enhance Canada’s prestige at the UN. There is one year left until the 2021 spot is filled.  According to information obtained by CBC News, under the Access to Information Act, since 2016, the Trudeau government has spent $1.5 million on this campaign.  This includes gifts to foreign dignitaries, many trips abroad by Canadian officials to campaign for the seat, and pay for 11 federal government employees in Ottawa and New York, working full-time on Canada’s bid for the Security Council seat.  The seat is held for only two years and is essentially meaningless, since the five permanent nations on the Security Council have a veto over all resolutions passed by the Council.
  3. In August 2018, Canada sent 250 military personnel to serve as UN peacekeepers in Mali, Africa, at a cost of $400 million. Trudeau believed this would strengthen Canada’s bid for the seat on the Security Council.  Canada, however, is planning to remove these peacekeepers in August, 2019, as the government does not want any deaths of Canadian peacekeepers to occur during the upcoming federal election.  Trudeau is removing the peacekeepers, despite the fact that their replacements from Romania will not arrive in Mali until October, 2019, leaving a gap of several months before Mali will again have UN peacekeeper protection.
  4. In 2018, Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland tweeted a demand that Saudi Arabia release several human rights activists from prison. This ultimatum deeply angered Saudi Arabia and caused serious long-range damage, both politically and economically, to Canada’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.

The tweet did nothing at all for the dissidents in prison.  This was not surprising since the tweet was only virtue signalling (trying to look good) by Freeland for domestic, political consumption to show the Liberal government’s “concern” for human rights.

  1. During the G7 meeting of foreign ministers, held in France in April, 2019, Canadian Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland requested that the final joint communique of the meeting state that white supremacy and Islamophobia were the causes of the mosque shootings that killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, 2019. Freeland had also put forward this same notion, the month previously, at the UN General Assembly, where she singled out white supremacy as “the greatest security threat facing the world”.  The other G7 foreign ministers, at the April meeting, refused to accept Ms. Freeland’s explanation of the horrific event.  As usual, Canada’s Liberal government was off-side at an international meeting, trying to bring a politically correct bias to the table for the purpose of gaining supporting votes from “progressives” in Canada, at a cost of offending other countries.

It is easy to understand why our allies regard Canada’s international input as lacking in seriousness.