I AM STARTING TO FEEL SORRY FOR ...

JUSTIN TRUDEAU.  AT LEAST, INSOFAR-AS THE FOLLOWING IS CONCERNED.

Long time readers will know that I seldom follow the crowd - thankfully and many of you have indicated that this is one of the main reason you read my blog.

The following then may surprise you, not because I do not follow the crowd here, but rather, I suspect more than a few of you will find yourself in their camp.

How is that for a confusing beginning.

Today's Issue concerns Prime Minister Trudeau's recent visit to the NATO Conference in London England where he was caught 'gossiping' about The Donald.  May the Saints preserve us.

I say that knowing We All Gossip and having worked in the political field for many years, there is nothing Politicians and their Minions like better than good gossip and this goes for the 4th Estate...The Media, as well.

Those who express shock at 'Trudeau's antics' are ... pardon the expression...being gossipy.

I am embarrassed to say that I was listening to CBC Radio the other day; in my defence, the headphones I was wearing could only pick up the Mother Corp and thanks to its over $1 Billion Taxpayer Subsidy its signal was strong enough to reach even my my dime store device.

The topic on air was Teenagers and their proclivity to gossip.  It was presented as if this was a passing phase and that when they grew up ....   But I thought to myself 'That is not likely to happen'.

And then a day or so later came the tape of Trudeau speaking (gossiping) off the cuff with some of his NATO colleagues including the Queen's very own daughter Anne.  (As an aside, as time goes on I feel sorrier and sorrier for Members of the Royal Family having to stand in in bore-fests like that).

Anyway, it would have been the non-even of non-events save for the fact that the subject of his scorn (?) was no other than Donald Trump.  And what pray tell did Young Trudeau have to say.

He first commented on his lateness to the gossip fest on the basis that Trump went overtime on a Press Conference.  The event went a shocking 23 minutes and should have concluded earlier.  I know it doesn't get much worse than that. But hold on ..there is more...much more.

Trudeau then went on to spill the beans that Trump's entourage's collective jaw dropped...And Why?  Because Trump had announced that next year's NATO gabfest would take place at Camp David.  If there is anyone out there that did not know this, beforehand, I sincerely apologize to you and only hope that someone nearby you has some smelling salts or something even stronger. 

Trudeau, belatedly realizing the error of his ways, quickly tried unsuccessfully to cover-up by saying how pleased he was that next year's event would be held there... but you and I know, a guy like Trump will see through this subterfuge like a hot knife through butter. 

So there you have.   Demands for Trudeau's Head were ubiquitous.   NAFTA lay in ruins, as did the Steel and Aluminium Tariffs, there was no limit to the vengeance Trump was gong to rain down on Canada's Head.

 Oh, what's this?  Just in... 'It was just announced that NAFTA has been signed and Tariff Agreements re Steel and Aluminum have been entered into.'

So what was all the kerfuffle?

Oh, word has it that John Diefenbaker is coming out of Retirement to Lead the Hapless Conservatives.  Well it is about time.


As I See It, 


K.D. BELL