Rex Murphy: Is it not a bit low for a prime minister to be so dismissive, so condescending? That “big building over there,” and the persons who have been its leaders since John A. Macdonald, whatever its faults and flaws, have brought us to where we are. One such person was Pierre Elliott Trudeau. But to Justin Trudeau, it is not a place of honour, of pride or accomplishment. “It (again he means our Parliament) has and is built around a system of colonialism, of discrimination, of systemic racism in all of our institutions.”
Well then, tear it down. Cancel it. At the very least give it a new name. No one with a serious moral heart would bear to be seen going into such a building, and certainly not presiding as prime minister over it.
Is there nothing before Justin Trudeau’s entry into politics that Canada got right? Was there no virtue before 2015? Is there anything in the Canadian political system that he approves of, sees as a model for his own governance, any previous prime minister or premier from our past who he looks to as a guide?
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