An Attempt to Understand Justin Trudeau

The Royal Wedding

I knew on May 28, 2005 that we were in trouble. On that day Justin Trudeau was married to Sophie Grégoire at Montreal's Sainte-Madeleine d'Outremont Church.

It had all the hallmarks of a royal wedding. There were dignitaries and a large media presence. The gold suit, sunglasses, and Pierre Trudeau's restored 1960 Mercedes Benz 300 SL roadster that had been shipped to Montreal from Victoria for the special day, all proclaimed that this was a royal wedding.

The CBC and CTV held out young Justin, Simba-like to the nation, announcing to the world that this young cub was the rightful heir to the throne. And the people bought it. Canadian royal watchers love our version of William and Kate, or Harry and Meghan, or Simba and Nala.

The problem is that we don’t need a prince; we need a prime minister. We do not need another royal family complete with all the fashion shows and parades. The Canadian royal family that resides in Buckingham palace is quite sufficient. We need a Prime Minister.

Promises, Promises

We need a Prime Minister who will keep his promises. In this regard Trudeau has been a big disappointment.

Prince Justin promised a revenue neutral middle-class tax cut. Promise broken. That particular cut costs Canadians $1.2 billion annually.

He promised a small business tax cut. Nope. No cut.

The Canadian Prince promised modest deficits. Do you consider $93.3 billion to be modest? By the way, that amounts to over $2570 for every man, woman and baby in Canada, that he borrowed for you. But don’t worry; it’s mostly just the babies who will have to pay it back someday.

He promised a balanced budget with a $1 billion surplus, in 2019-20. The Liberals themselves now predict the deficit in 2019-20 will be $20.4 billion, and they give no indication of when the budget will be balanced, if ever. Thanks Prince Justin!

He said he’d reduce debt-to-GDP ratio. No again.

How about Revenue neutral carbon pricing? Nope.

King Pierre’s underachieving son said he’d reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Before the 2015 election, Trudeau asserted that the emission cuts proposed by the previous conservative government were inadequate, but he has not yet altered the targets.

Trudeau has abandoned his promise of Electoral reform.

His promise of open and transparent government was followed by his disappearance from the Commons on most days.

And of course Prince Justin has decided not to keep his promise to restore home mail delivery.

To all of these broken promises we can add the royal vacation that we paid $215,000 for and ethics breaches as he received princely treatment from the Aga Khan.

Understanding Generational Wealth

Trudeau talks a lot about the middle class. Princes do not come from the middle class. Justin Trudeau can barely fathom the middle class. In truth, we cannot fault him for his inability to identify with or understand the middle class. The fact is that he was born into generational wealth.

Not long ago I read a book entitled “A Framework for Understanding Poverty.” The book describes the hidden rules of the classes. I discovered how little I know about the upper class, or the lower class for that matter, because I don’t know the hidden rules. I do know all of the rules of the middle class since I am a middle class person.

Trudeau will have been raised learning intimately all of the hidden rules of the upper class because he was born into generational wealth. He grew up in a world of trust funds, Nannies, multiple staffed residences, private country clubs, artistic and tasteful presentation of everything, personal assistants and professionals on retainer.

Let me try to explain that a little more. Middle class people devote most of their time concerned with achievement. People in generational wealth will spend most of their time making connections. Achievement may have been the focus of Justin’s father, but Justin is not of that generation.

Upper class people will go to great lengths to avoid you if you are not connected to “important” people. It matters not whether you are a decent person. Connections are the important thing. They have strategies to ensure that unimportant people do not get too close.

Middle class people are not wired that way. Middle class people are focused on tackling problems and accomplishing something. Trudeau, on the other hand, was not raised to think like that. His many broken promises are evidence of that. When he talks about the middle class he is talking about a category of people he will never fully understand in the same way that I will never fully understand the upper class. For more on this I recommend reading the third Chapter of Ruby Payne’s book, “A Framework for Understanding Poverty.”

Perhaps there is a solution. If we fired Queen Elizabeth and company, and established the Trudeaus as our royal family, perhaps he would agree to stay away from the prime minister’s office. It appears that is what he wants, and it gives us a chance to provide what Canada needs; a real Prime Minister.


Citation:
Payne, R. K. (2013). A framework for understanding poverty: a cognitive approach.

Highlands, TX: Aha! Process, Inc.

Comments

  1. You have never been more right. We need to get rid of him before he totally destroys Canada and I sure hope the people are much, much smarter this time around. He has done so much damage I am not sure Canada will ever survive this last four years. Get him out of power before it is too late. Tell the Eastern's to wake up and smell the roses before it is too late. I can't believe that they still think he is a great person. What is wrong with them???

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