In Canada, we call this Tuesday:
When engine damage to his plane was set to strand Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London, the military, with few planes to spare, was forced to consider pulling aircraft from military exercises and even the “unpalatable” option of delaying a group of Second World War veterans to bring him home.
An additional challenge in securing aircraft was that the government had difficulty finding enough people among Trudeau’s 52-person entourage to fly home on a commercial flight, according to the documents obtained through an access-to-information request.
No, not the military. JUSTIN.
Justin - who expects to have the public purse and all accoutrements of public life at his whim.
Justin - who expects everyone to follow him and never hold him to account.
Justin - who will use the military as a whipping-boy for this entire debacle.
And then there is the matter of the usual broken-down equipment that has become a running joke in this country.
Not to worry. Justin will get a new plane soon enough.
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Justin Trudeau encourages refugees to come to Canada, ships them quickly from Quebec to Toronto to get them out of Legault's hair and then @cafreeland tells Toronto to go fuck itself when it asks for funds to take care of them. https://t.co/8YzucU6Ttf
— Norman Levine (@NormanLevine100) July 25, 2023
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Weakness, moral laziness and the fear of losing one's job kept people under wraps and helped Justin bring the country to heel.
I think that's what the article meant to say:
A scathing new editorial and series of reports published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), one of the world’s most respected peer-reviewed publications, takes Canada to task for its many pandemic failings — going so far as to recommend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most abhorred three-word phrase: independent public inquiry.
The reports paint a bleak picture of a country that managed to avoid more disastrous outcomes, not due to competent leadership, but thanks to a signature combination of good luck and the goodwill of Canadians. This shouldn’t provide anyone with comfort, as luck always runs out when faced with systemic dysfunction, and government actions — or lack thereof — left many Canadians disenfranchised, disillusioned and rightfully angry. ...
However, deeper analysis reveals a country that skated by in spite of its elected leaders. From the near complete collapse of long-term care homes (LTCHs), to data vacuums, fragmented government co-ordination and communications, playing politics with vaccines and allowing for vastly unequal outcomes that took the largest tolls on the most vulnerable populations, especially First Nations communities, Canadian leaders have a lot to answer for.
The death and misery that consumed our LTCHs has never been properly accounted for. It’s understandable why many would rather forget the horrific scenes that played out in these homes. Elderly Canadians left for weeks in soiled diapers. Seniors crying out for help as bed bugs literally ate them alive. Patients given expired medication, sedated with narcotics for being sad, force fed until they choked and abandoned to suffer from bed ulcers. And then there was the actual virus.
“Canada’s long term care homes — including residents, their family and friend caregivers, and staff — experienced among the highest proportion of deaths among all COVID-19 deaths worldwide,” reads one of the BMJ reports.
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