But Terry Glavin's comment in the Ottawa Citizen has received the most attention - mostly due to closer's like this:
"... not to impugn Trudeau’s intentions ..... [but] Justin Trudeau, as a ridiculous, morally illiterate and fathomlessly unserious person."
The issue here in my opinion is JT's admiration of totalitarian methods. He admires their ability to take the "right" actions to quickly solve a problem. Obviously the central question is not the "rightness" of the action - it is the desire to use the power of the state to impose his solution on the voters (hopefully only a small subsection.)
This was covered by Joseph Ben-Ami in an article in the Canadian Observer in Spring 2012 "A Whiff of Totalitarianism" regarding JT's comments that he might support Quebec Independence if Canada ever
succumbed to Harper's "Hidden Agenda" to do away with same-sex marriage and abortion.
This a subtle change. It used to be Quebec's National Identity was forged by Language and Culture.
No longer.
Trudeau now tell's us it is a commitment to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Ben-Ami suggests this will not play as well to Quebecois outside Montreal as JT may think.
His conclusion was they may be more concerned with Civil Engineering (as an Autoroute bridge collapsed over some poor commuters near Montreal) rather than Social Engineering.
But he identified a core truth about these issues.
When you eliminate choices - the debate becomes about nothing but style.
There are now so many third rails that we are behind bars.
The most successful tyranny is one that removes awareness of possibilities.
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