The prime minister said it was needed so students would have summer jobs. But students aren’t taking jobs that already exist
Clearly, the need to create summer jobs isn’t a credible answer to why? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s other attempt at justifying the Canada Student Service Grant is to provide charities with “paid volunteers” to help charities deliver their programs. There’s no doubt that the non-profit sector has been devastated by COVID-19. Imagine Canada, an organization that works with charities, estimates the pandemic’s financial impact is between $9.5 billion and $15.
Trudeau’s justifications for the Canada Student Service Grant were clearly dubious. So what could possibly have motivated him to implement the program in the first place? At the end of June, after handing out $170 billion in COVID-19 support programs, the prime minister ended his daily Rideau Cottage press briefings. That largesse, together with his “We’ll get through this together” and “We’re here to help” mantras had lifted the Liberals well above the Conservative opposition in the polls.
But if this form of vote-buying was Trudeau’s real objective, how did he possibly expect to get away with it? The answer to that question is hubris, which to the ancient Greeks meant pride and over-confidence so great that it offends the gods by overstepping the boundaries of human limitations in an attempt to assume god-like status. Hubris was a character flaw seen in the heroes of classical Greek tragedy, including Oedipus and Achilles.
In retrospect, those months of appearing daily in front of Rideau Cottage playing the sincere, empathic, cash-gushing saviour freed from the tedious boundaries of parliamentary democracy must have led to fantasizing the achievement of god-like status. It will be up to us mere humans to judge whether he is ethically worthy of such a status.Share this article in your social network
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