My Views on Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau

Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here at Steve's Café, this is where I get to rant.

I've done a few videos knocking Donald Trump, which isn't very difficult to do. The most recent thing with Donald is his wife getting all upset because a newspaper reporter didn't quite describe her the way she would have wanted to be described. My experience with the press is every time I give an interview they get everything wrong. I consider that normal, nevertheless we need them. Even though they have their axes to grind and they aren't always all that accurate it's a part of our society, so Donald and his wife should just get over it. But that's not what I'm going to talk about today because people asked me to talk about Canada, Canadian politics, what do I think, so let's start with our Prime Minister.

I am not at all impressed.

I think he's a phony, I think he knows very little and I think he's full of all of the moral rectitude and political correctness that gave rise to people like Donald Trump. Because he thinks he's on the moral high ground, he thinks he can do whatever he wants. Where do I start? He loves taking pictures of himself in various national dress on, so he had a picture taken of himself with the embroidered Ukrainian shirt. Which is fine, but actually the Ukrainians would like the government to take a stronger position vis-à-vis Russia, which Harper did.

The present duo of Dion and Trudeau live in this world of as long as we say nice things and we're polite that will be good, but actually that's not quite how it is in real life.

In real life there are real issues and sometimes you have to take a stand and I don't see Trudeau taking a stand on a real issue. On the other hand, apologizing for the fact that 100 some odd years ago a boatload of people from India weren't allowed in the country he's front and center. That's a real progressive thing to do. I haven't seen an apology for a boatload of Jews that were denied access to Canada and went back to their death in Hitler's concentration camps. However, the Sikhs is a different matter. There are three Sikhs in the Cabinet. Those are important voters, so we have an apology for that.

He also apologized for his absolutely appalling behavior in the Canadian Parliament where, as I gather from what I've seen, there was some milling around.

People weren't at their seats and the liberal party wanted to get a vote going and Trudeau charges over and grabs an opposition member by the arm to try to pull him to sit down in his seat and in so doing elbows a female member in the chest. I think he did it twice. I don't spend a lot of time studying these things, but who does he think he is? I mean that's just unbelievable. So today he has an apology, well, my behavior was not what I expect of myself. Actually, it is exactly what I expect of Trudeau. He thinks that he has some divine right as a son of Pierre to go down there and grab another human being who happens to be a member of the opposition party, drag him and have him sit down where Trudeau wants him to sit down.

Look, Trudeau is not a teacher and that's not his pupil.

Whether or not in the scuffle he elbowed someone else in the chest is almost irrelevant, it's the mindset of someone who would think that in our Parliament if things aren't going his way he can just get up there and grab somebody by the elbow. That whole we are on the moral side of things so whatever we do is good is very much Trudeau, his apology notwithstanding. His apology doesn't amount to a hill of beans, in my opinion.

Then I get a letter from his wife, I don't want a letter from his wife.

I didn't vote for his wife, I didn't vote for Trudeau either. Although Sophie likes to get all the perks that go with being the wife of the Prime Minister, I don't want to hear from her. So I get this letter saying we want to find out more about you because for the last three years we've been meeting in coffee shops, town halls, church basements and gurdwaras, which I presume is a Sikh temple. I mean I don't need that detail. We met, period. Whether in church temples, not in church temples, church basements or gurdwars it's just meaningless, but it's all this sort of sick stuff.

We want to get to know you, help us to get to know you better.

How important is the following to you: economy, middleclass and employment -- very important, somewhat important, not very important, not important. Who's going to say not important? The economy is important. The question is what are you going to do about it, Trudeau? Unfortunately, so far it doesn't look like you're going to improve your economy. The next was fair, open and transparent government. Is that important, not important? I feel like saying not important. The economy, not important. The environment, not important. Nothing is important. Infrastructure in communities, not important. Health care, no, not important. What is all this junk? It's just so negative.

Here's this guy, Trudeau, 43 years old, knows nothing, never did anything, in my opinion.

The few times he is asked for his opinion on something… I remember prior to the election he was asked, which government in the world do you respect the most, he says China. Why, he's asked? He says because there they really can get things done. Again, quoting Trudeau, for example on the environment, “if they have a problem they can just fix it right away.” How can anyone aspiring to be Prime Minister say something so stupid?

There is no amount of explanation that takes away from the fact that anyone who says that is ignorant and stupid because in China they can get things done.

Absolutely, if they want to build a road through your house, your house is moved. Now, is that what you want for Canada? That's the kind of action-oriented government you want that steamrolls over people? If someone in the House of Commons isn't playing your silly little game you just go over there and grab them by the elbow and push them around? Then to suggest that somehow in China they have this tremendous ability to fix their environment. Why are people flocking out of China coming to Canada? Because China is becoming unlivable, so how good a job is their government doing on the environment. I can go on and on.

Another one that annoys me is his focus on diversity all the time.

He goes down to New York and says there is no common culture in Canada. We're all about diversity and diversity is strength. Well, as someone who was not born in Canada, whose wife is half Chinese, half Costa Rican who was not born in Canada and I now have children and grandchildren, I think very much that there is a common culture in Canada. I see all the time how we interact with each other. I was at my CrossFit the other day and there we have people of all kinds of origins, Chinese, this one fellow, 08:07.7, it turns out he's originally from Afghanistan. He speaks English like I do and he feels the same way.

There are ways in which Canadians interact with each other that is Canadian, its part of our living culture.

Yeah, we don't have the Great Wall of China, we don't have the Taj Mahal, we don't paint Easter eggs like the Ukrainians, but we a way that we interact with each other that's our culture. To say that there's no common culture and that diversity is good, that's not true. Diversity to me is irrelevant, at best. If I look upon a person of Chinese, Indian or Afghan origin and I don't see them as being diverse but I see them as part of my community, that's good. The more I see them as diverse and different, the worse. There's no evidence in countries like Finland, Korea or Japan that lack of diversity hurts them in their education system and in their economy and stuff.

So diversity, at best, is irrelevant.

It's not something to crow about and he's trying to portray this picture of Canada as some country full of hate and he's going to come in and sort of soothe everyone's feelings. I've lived in many countries in the world and Canada, today, not 30, 50 or 80 years ago, today, is one of the more tolerant countries I know. That's also part of our common culture and we weren't that way before gays vis-à-vis Chinese, Blacks, you name it. There was lots of prejudice and discrimination and such it is in every country in the world. But today, in fact, Canada is relatively tolerant and accepting and so constantly focusing on diversity rather than solidarity…You remember I did my video about equality, fraternity, which is solidarity, and freedom, that's what we want. We want freedom from politically-correct idiots like our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

So there you have it, a little bit of a rant on Canadian politics.

That should drive a few negatives from my Canadian followers. Bye for now.