So Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thought the Freedom Convoy protesters were “not very smart people.”That’s a galling coming from a world leader who's consistently failed to demonstrate common sense in his private or public life. .As the son of a prime minister and as a narcissistic dilettante who lusted for public office, Trudeau should have known his performing or acting up in blackface was both morally inept and politically stupid — especially if you happen to be a hectoring self-righteous know-it-all who loves to tell everyone how racist they are, as he did in the case of the Freedom Convoy. .Was it very clever of Trudeau to serenade a London piano bar with his strained rendition of the Queen standard “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral? Or how about all those bizarre and preening photo ops in India as Trudeau — who would undoubtedly rant against any form of cultural appropriation as racist — donned traditional Indian dress and even demonstrated the local dances to global hilarity? And it wasn't very smart to invoke the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy. It was very stupid. And, completely unnecessary..And we haven’t even begun to question how his policies of bankrupting the country, locking the economy down during COVID-19 and turning down a natural gas contract with Germany because he couldn’t fathom how to make a buck, make any sense at all..Yet there he was, according to a document dropped Tuesday at the Emergencies Act Inquiry, talking to his good buddy Ontario Premier Doug Ford, suggesting the Freedom Convoy folks didn’t have the smarts to stage an efficacious protest. .Ford was complaining the Convoy’s blockade of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, which was costing Ontario big bucks, required immediate action and he was looking for “legal” remediation to stop it. .Trudeau replied the Convoy protests weren’t legal at all.Interesting. Did he describe the Black Lives Matter-inspired protests in the U.S. that destroyed public and private property in a similar manner? I can’t find any such reference. .Then the prime minister summed up the situation as he saw it: “You shouldn't need more tools, legal tools. They are barricading the Ontario economy and doing millions of damage a day and harming people's lives. They're harming people's lives at a time we're trying to draw in investments." .So if Ford didn't need more tools, why did Trudeau need to invoke the Emergencies Act? Kind of makes you ponder the situation doesn't it?."A whole bunch of people are looking at this and saying we can't even clear up a protest on a bridge," Trudeau declared. ."I always wonder if they are not very smart people trying to think about shaming Canada in all sorts of ways and hurting the economy and jobs getting back to the US, we've got to respond quickly to this." .Then Ford decided to play the role of tough guy and proclaimed his frustration the Ontario Provincial Police weren’t busting enough protester heads. .“I can’t call them and say get your asses in there and kicking ass. It’s up to the OPP,” Ford said, adding he was determined to be up the OPP’s “ass with a wire brush.” .You wonder why Ford isn’t exactly excited about appearing before this inquiry and sharing his intelligence with the Canadian public? .Every time Ford appears in the testimony he looks like an authoritarian kingpin who doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the term political protest. .As it turned out, the entire Freedom Convoy was an intelligent protest that effectively forced Trudeau to demonstrate his most undesirable qualities as an authoritarian leader who relishes smearing his political enemies in the basest possible manner: by labelling them as misogynistic and white supremacists, even Nazis. It also underlined for many Canadians how the vaccine mandates had not only been unfair, but a violation of personal choice that had taken its toll on people’s lives and livelihoods. .Will the real “not very smart” person please stand up.
