By now, you’ve probably seen the video of Trudeau’s epic meltdown in response to the persistent protesters who disrupted his town hall last Friday in Nanaimo, B.C.
After trying repeatedly to quell the noisy hecklers who were determined to ruin his love-in, Trudeau finally lost his patience and flipped out.
“Ach, come on! COME on! Really? Really?” he erupted.
“Will you please respect the people in this room?” he asked his antagonist, three times. “No? Then please leave.”
The crowd roared its approval.
“If you’re not going to respect the people in this room, you need to leave. That’s the rule. Sorry, go ahead,” he snapped, with a dismissive wave of his hand, as the cops moved in to remove his offender.
As I sat watching the live-streamed spectacle unfold, I couldn’t help but think that those words and that exchange will live in infamy.
Potentially, they will serve as Trudeau’s political epitaph.
Many Canadians—especially in British Columbia—are growing increasingly exasperated by his actions, at the behest of Big Oil, to ram through the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. It would triple the flow of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s tar sands to Kinder Morgan’s marine terminal in Burnaby, B.C.
It seems eminently Canadian to describe that as an “epic meltdown,” jussayin’.
On the other hand, there is something wildly ironic about Trudeau saying, to applause, that “Winston Churchill pointed out that democracy is messy, and it is messy, but it’s the best possible forum of engagement because we do get to hear from everyone in this,” as the camera focuses on a woman being literally dragged out by police for dissenting too stridently.
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