Still Some of them there Canaanites left....

[cronus]

(....proves there is still God's work for the Christian right to do I guess?)

[Hermit]

Crap. The Canadians clearly have the upper hand over right wing Christians. Joshua's victory in the 6th century BC was a one-off. Besides, Trudeau is a dab hand in the ring.

[JimC]

Smite the unbelievers!

[DRSB]

Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet

Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away – especially now that he’s discovered bombs. But precisely because everyone’s staring gape-mouthed in his direction, other world leaders are able to get away with almost anything. Don’t believe me? Look one country north, at Justin Trudeau.

Look all you want, in fact – he sure is cute, the planet’s only sovereign leader who appears to have recently quit a boy band. And he’s mastered so beautifully the politics of inclusion: compassionate to immigrants, insistent on including women at every level of government. Give him great credit where it’s deserved: in lots of ways he’s the anti-Trump, and it’s no wonder Canadians swooned when he took over.

But when it comes to the defining issue of our day, climate change, he’s a brother to the old orange guy in Washington

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ?CMP=fb_gu

[Hermit]

Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet

Oh, I'm not swooning over Trudeau. My post was just a wilful equivocation of Canaan and Canadian for the sake of having a little fun. Justin Trudeau, like his father, is a conservative liberal in the European sense. Even Angela Merkel, another conservative liberal, implements (marginally) better policies. The only reason why Trudeau Jr. has so much appeal at the moment is that he supersedes that arch-conservative reactionary, Stephen Harper.