Opinion: Tory’s response to strong-mayor criticism showed him at his wussiest. “Even with the provincial changes,” he said, he will “always try to reach a council consensus.” So he’ll try to get a majority yes — but if he doesn't, he’ll do it anyway.
. Modi’s record reaches back to 2002 in Gujarat, where he led the provincial government. There was a year of massacres and attacks which were called pogroms, state terrorism and genocide, and in which he’s been plausibly implicated. The U.S. banned him for years over his role. Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy calls his current government a “criminal Hindu-fascist enterprise.
What I wonder is if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau feels a certain cognitive dissonance on policies like this. Due to his dad, Pierre, having been PM, he carries baggage and knowledge that no one else in his government does. Pierre for instance, as a young man, visited the then-ostracized China and later co-wrote a plucky book called “Two Innocents in Red China.” As PM, he broke ranks and recognized China, possibly with U.S. concurrence. He befriended and sympathized with former Cuban president Fidel Castro over U.S. attempts to kill Cuba’s revolution. When he died, Fidel attended his funeral; when Fidel died, Justin apparently wanted to go but was more or less locked in his room by his staff and didn’t.
Foreign policy is mostly bullshit all around, but you still have to walk some fine lines. For a place like Canada, it may mean flitting between China and India, colouring them all “good” or all “bad,” while always placating the U.S. — and trying, if futilely, to slip in some independence and even momentary honesty. If you’re not into those contortions, you probably shouldn’t have applied for the job.
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