In hockey it’s called a ‘Lindros’ — skating up centre ice with your head down. And then… BAM..Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre did his best Scott Stevens in the House of Commons Wednesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walked right into a zinger, ostensibly about inflation..The context is unclear, but it appears as if Poilievre made a comment about tying Canada’s rising inflation numbers to high school math class..“Yes Mr. Speaker, I was a high school teacher before getting into politics,” Trudeau says. “But I’m having a little trouble remembering what exactly the job the leader of the opposition had before he got into politics.”.Oops. Trudeau had his head down. Poilievre responded with a clean, hard hit of his own..“Yes, and he left right in the middle of the semester and I’m having trouble remembering why?” To which he received a standing ovation from the Conservative benches..“He definitely wasn’t a math teacher.”.For those who did indeed forget, days before the 2019 election rumours emerged about the prime minister’s departure from the West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver during the 2001 school year.. Justin Trudeau when he taught at schoolJustin Trudeau when he taught at school .Both Trudeau and the school’s principal at the time denied any allegations of impropriety..His time at the school was also mark by notorious photos of him in blackface..Although the reporters in question made public their investigations and enquiries into the matter, no subsequent reporting has corroborated any of the rumours and Trudeau does not comment publicly on them, although they persist to this day. .As Poilievre so deftly noted: Touché.
