The costumes of Justin Trudeau (and Jason Kenney)…

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Josée Legault

Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:41

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Tuesday, 20 February 2018 15:03

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As soon as Justin Trudeau gave up his full-dress of another culture or another religion, in Quebec, negative reactions abound.

The same goes for the trip to India with the canadian prime minister and his family.

And yet, this habit of the young Trudeau son is in fact the reflection of what is now Canada over the past few decades. A country where tolerance of differences is erected in the collective value, and where the religious is back as a return in the public space and the political as the marker of identity.

One can be for or we can be against, but you can’t deny this objective fact.

When Justin Trudeau is wearing a dress other than his usual, he simply makes the wearer visible.

At least, that is the intended message.

However, in reality, in addition to beliefs surely sincere the prime minister, behind this message lies a cronyism, electioneering fort classic. Simply.

The electoral base of the liberal Party of Canada is very diverse culturally and religiously. A game that could not survive if it was not minimally maintained.

Translation : the “costumes” of Mr. Trudeau are significantly more for consumption domestic policy that, to show his great cultural openness to his hosts when he travels abroad.

This political choice is all the more vital for the PLC to Justin Trudeau, electorally speaking, than the ex-conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, was himself delighted with the PLC of a substantial part of its own multicultural basis.

And he had done it through a strategy finely and patiently ridden by his minister and close friend of Jason Kenney. To understand it better, read this very valuable analysis of my colleague Alec Castonguay.

To attract the vote of multicultural, the highly conservative Jason Kenney was community feast in celebration of religious, all beliefs confonfues. Therefore, it would also bring, in whole or in part, the dress, cultural or religious, of its guests. Just as this was happening also to the conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, and before him, the liberal prime minister, Jean Chrétien. Etc. All for the same reasons clientelist.

The moral of this story : according to the political party and its objectives, the cronyism, electioneering is defined in many ways.

In federal politics, the cronyism, multicultural and multi-faith is a must. Point. It comes with the country itself. Denounce it tooth and nail, will change nothing.

It is Canada as it is. After two referendums and by the time the sovereignty of the Quebec goes for old-fashioned or outdated, as say the English, take it or leave it…