The Trudeau train wreck
Dear Justin,
You don’t mind if we call you Justin, do you? In other circumstances, we’d call you prime minister, but – to be perfectly candid – your Indian family vacation wasn’t terribly prime ministerial.
The complications arising from that trip continue to be felt, too. On Wednesday morning of last week – on what is, generally speaking, the most important full day of the selling of any federal budget – the government of India formally responded to the conspiracy theory that you and your senior officials have been attempting to peddle back home: that the presence of Jaspal Atwal in your entourage was the fault of the Indian government. Not yours.
Atwal, as everyone in Canada and India knows by now, attempted to murder an Indian cabinet minister in 1986. He was convicted and jailed for that. Anyone with access to Google knew all about it. But you – with your access to the RCMP and CSIS and whatnot – somehow didn’t.