The Pariah

He can't please anybody.

No one cares about his socks and he keeps up old photographs of himself so as not bring attention to his jowls.

Sad:

Justin Trudeau gets bullied IRL by activists demanding that he call for a ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/G6PDknmpEj

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 15, 2023

(Sidebar: by activists, one means the pro-Hamas voters block Justin needs, aside from Chinese cash, to stay afloat.)

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My favourite part of Trudeau being chased out of the restaurant is when he tries to schmooze people at a table on the way out & they all reject him like he’s got the cooties. https://t.co/iCGwCbvXOe pic.twitter.com/ubaXgc7ri5

— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) November 15, 2023

I believe those are called "Trudies".

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It's a system no one wants or can afford but neither Justin nor Jagmeet can do without or their pensions are as good as gone:

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party sent the Liberals back to the drawing board in drafting their upcoming pharmacare legislation, as the end-of-year deadline set in the supply-and-confidence agreement between both parties is rapidly approaching.

“We’ve seen a first draft and we made it very clear that the first draft was insufficient for our support. So the government has taken that back and is working on some amendments,” said Singh during a press conference in Toronto in describing the ongoing negotiations between both parties.

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According to the deal between the NDP and Liberals, a Canada Pharmacare Act must be passed by the end of 2023. Since Parliament is not sitting this week, that leaves only four weeks, or 20 sitting days, for the federal government to table and pass a bill that will satisfy the New Democrats.

Singh claimed it is “absolutely possible” to achieve the end-of-year deadline, even though both parties are not on the same page right now about what a pharmacare program should look like.

“Right now, the sticking point is the Liberals want to bring in legislation that appeases the big pharmaceutical industry. We don’t care about them. We don’t want to appease them. We want to make sure Canadians can afford their medication. That’s our priority,” said Singh.

Asked to elaborate further, Singh said the Liberals were leaving the door open for “some sort of a mixed public-private” system where the pharmaceutical industry would continue to make “huge profits.”

Ask your fellow MPs what they profit from, Jag.

The answers may surprise you.

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More problematic, the Oath of Citizenship still includes a reference to Queen Elizabeth the Second, who died 14 months ago, as do several other sections of the guide. (The online version updates the Oath but still mentions the Queen in some of the study questions.)

Canada’s terror threat level also remains unchanged, in this case for nine years. In October 2014 it was set at “medium” (the middle of five options) and has not moved since.

This is spite of a recent move by Britain to declare on its travel web site, “There is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting U.K. interests and British nationals,” adding in boldface: “Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Canada.”

Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems frozen in time on his official page on the Canadian government website.

While the page features several new posts each day, including up-to-date notices of the prime minister’s itinerary, the smiling visage at the top is of a bearded, mid-pandemic Trudeau, who grew whiskers at the start of 2020, and shaved them off by the following summer. The beard has not returned, but remains enshrined atop his page.