Uber-progressive Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, probably was not expecting the response he got from a steel plant worker when the PM went out on the street glad-handing for votes.
Speaking on the street to an unidentified man, a steel worker, who appeared to be in his early 30s, Trudeau was trying to convince the people gathered around him that his liberal government was “investing” in their economic futures. Offering free donuts to the people assembled, Trudeau bragged about how many Canadians have been able to go to the dentist for the first time, thanks allegedly to his government.
The steelworker shot back that he had to pay for his and his family’s dental care, all four of them, out of pocket.
But like any politician, Trudeau kept going, boasting about how “the 25 percent tariffs we just brought in” was going to help people like the man he was talking to. “That’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau said.
That wasn’t good enough for the steel worker, who asked what Trudeau planned to do about the “40 percent taxes” he pays, and the fact that he can’t find a doctor. The man works for Algoma Steel.
Ever ready with a smooth if unsatisfying answer, Trudeau said his government made a multi-million-dollar “investment” in workers like him, and that many people will be able to keep their jobs “for many years to come.”
The steel worker was unimpressed, and said back with a deadpan voice that he expected Trudeau would not be around for more than a year as he could expect to be voted out of office.
Stuck on the “investment” track in his mind, the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party said “that’s what elections are for,” and that he was going to continue to “invest in” that man and his job.
The man’s answer? “I don’t believe you for a second.”
Like U.S. President Joe Biden, Trudeau appeared to believe that merely asserting and claiming that inflation had fallen would calm working class voters like the man he was speaking to. It did not. He also railed on the PM for the government giving out generous welfare benefits to people like his neighbor, whom he said was lazy and did not work.
Like a schoolmarm, the coiffed Trudea retorted “Most Canadians try to stick up for each other.”
