What do you think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is up to – besides nothing – in Costa Rica? Might he be deciding his future?.Do you know what a Member of parliament does in the summer months? Don’t think for a minute because the House of Commons has recessed until September that MPs are taking it easy and ignoring their constituents. Far from it: while the House doesn’t sit, MPs must stand at barbecues, receptions and soirees for the summer as they listen attentively to their local politicians, opinion leaders and every enraged voter who has waited all year long to get their MP home for a while and away from that political cauldron that is Ottawa..Liberal MPs must be getting an earful. Or at least they should be receiving it from both barrels. For the Grits, it is a long, hot summer or perhaps a couple of months of a Tennessee Williams play, like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a story that not only transpires in the hot and humid deep south but that focuses on what politics for nearly every Liberal MP is all about: mendacity or chronic deception. It is that inability to speak the truth or at least a deep desire to avoid talking about it and to converse instead in party-concocted talking points that ultimately mean very very little and satisfy very few..Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has escaped the country, the media, the public and his own increasingly frustrated caucus members by flying to Costa Rica, where he will undoubtedly lie on the beach and do his best to impress the locals with his imagined wit and wisdom, telling them as they wonder just who the hell this gringo is, that he is the prime minister of Canada and the son of another prime minister. No doubt someone will ask if it’s true his father was really Fidel Castro. Because Castro is either loved or hated throughout Central America and someone will no doubt heard the insidious rumor that Trudeau was related to the late Cuban dictator..Trudeau could not have gone on vacation at a better – or worse – time. As we have reported of late, the climate change fanatic has begun a war on farmers that began with a 35% tariff on fertilizer but will end, as former federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz informed this media outlet, in the eradication of pesticides and the government telling farmers what they can grow and how much of it they can grow. Perhaps Trudeau will decide every Canadian farmer should grow marijuana. Justin legalized it after all and it was probably the only thing his administration will be remembered for if the country is able to survive his best efforts to destroy it. Besides if Trudeau’s legacy is a Canada where people cannot afford to pay for fossil fuels and can no longer find food on the shelves of their grocery store, perhaps weed is the only recourse its impoverished citizens might have..While Trudeau absorbs the rays of the sun and samples the local culture, will he embarrass us all like he did in India, where every day was an excuse to appropriate the local dress and parade in front of some local landmark and look quite simply ridiculous? Will he don a festive hat and dance the samba for the benefit of a world media that has increasingly gone off of Trudeau as a subject of serious interest but is beginning to comprehend him as an object of hilarity and unintentional humor?.Trudeau is not only going to buy our “assault style” rifles at bargain prices, his government just announced a ban on the importation of handguns. Well, we can all feel safer for that, can’t we. The criminals who use their handguns to kill and rob will continue to bring their arms into the country as they always do: illegally and without any border taxes. Trudeau doesn’t need a handgun for protection because he has round the clock security at his disposal and he will always live in a cloistered, protected environment that precludes any uncomfortable intrusions from reality..Will Trudeau run again? Perhaps that is why he went to Costa Rica: to consider his political future. His father, Pierre Trudeau, decided to resign as prime minister while taking a walk in the snow on Feb. 29, 1984. Yes, it was a leap year and at the time his detractors noted that he chose that date because it could only be celebrated every four years..So Justin might take a sojourn in the jungle or a long trek on the sandy beach to evaluate his political future. He will no doubt recall his previous seven years in power as breathtakingly beautiful ones where he successfully imprinted his tortured ideology and rigid will upon a country that has become increasingly sick to its collective stomach of his hypocrisy, harangues, lectures, self-righteousness, irrelevance, banality and whining. .They may think it is time to go, but Trudeau? No, Trudeau cannot comprehend that he has worn out his welcome. He will continue to insouciantly believe that Canada is damn lucky to have a man of his caliber leading the nation to the abyss. If there is a well cultivated ego in every politician, Trudeau is the ultimate narcissistic incarnation of a man who is so full of himself he cannot imagine a world without the assistance of his greatness..I hope he stays and is deluded enough to think he can win again. It is sometimes nice to see fantasies crushed by reality.
