The preachy, gauzy, meaningless aphorisms don't suffice, Justin Trudeau: Neil Macdonald

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau speaks to supporters at Liberal election headquarters in Montreal on Oct. 22, the day after the federal election. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)

It has been indicated that the prime minister has become a teacher of the lack of response, and it hurt at the polls since there it was evidenced that this is true.

And it is that Trudeau had the powerful advantage of ownership, the recognition of the name, a strong economy, a low unemployment rate, and was fortunate to have had as his main opponent a character so unattractive and so awkwardly out of step with The multicultural reality of this country.

Even so, it is clear that the Prime Minister barely endured. Since much of the Canadians voted for other parties. More people, in fact, voted for Andrew Scheer than for Justin Trudeau.

Thus, it could be said that like Donald Trump, Trudeau occupies a high position due to how the system groups and assigns votes. No wonder the liberals broke their 2015 promise to reform the system and bring proportional representation.

Lack of incredible response

It should be noted that there is a small industry called media training. It gives instructions on how to “control a narrative”, to use that horrible term. Most politicians are clients. Likewise, the main directive of media training is that the question never matters. That an honest answer is for amateurs. Media coaches advise memorizing a set of non-answers and repeating them no matter what question is asked.

Thus, Trudeau and his cabinet quickly dominated the lack of response, delivered with the glassy smile and deployed it relentlessly on the floor of the Commons, journalists and the public. All responses from any ministry were coordinated, written and almost did not respond uniformly.

When Stephen Harper and his ministers simply refused to respond, Trudeau’s team never stopped responding. They just never said anything.

With a minority government, we all know that we will return to this again in a year and a half or so.

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Source: Neil Macdonald | CBC News