Don't Confuse Inaction With Sympathy

By hands-off, one means Justin simply doesn't care.

If nothing else, he can always live off of his family's money:

Unlike many of his global peers, Trudeau has avoided taking new measures recently to ease the burden of rising prices, even with inflation at its highest level since the early 1980s. ...

(Sidebar: when his dad was running the country into the ground.)

That may reflect a growing political sensitivity to criticism his government overspent during the pandemic, leaving the country with less fiscal room to tackle big future challenges like climate change. But there is also a wariness that doling out money to ease price pain may only wind up stoking more inflation.

Staying on the sidelines, however, has become increasingly difficult.

Trudeau is riding low in opinion polls after nearly seven years in power. And the likely election next month of Pierre Poilievre as new leader of the Conservative Party will add more urgency to the inflation debate. Poilievre has focused relentlessly on the cost of living during his leadership campaign, using the label “Justinflation” as he pins the blame on Trudeau.

That is what will launch Poilievre into leadership of the federal Tories but only foreign interventionists can remove Justin as puppet-head.

If only were like those "silly" Americans with their checks and balances and term limits!