It was the “optics” of the thing.
That’s what it’s always been about with Justin Trudeau’s government: The fancy-socks neoliberalism, the matinee-idol magazine covers, the Pride parades, the ill-advised Bollywood haberdashery. It’s always about optics.
But if you live by optics you just might perish by them, and what we’re beholding now is the “world stage” reputation of Trudeau’s Canada suddenly engulfed in a hurricane of mortifying, barely-believable global headlines. Like this one: Canadian parliament accidentally honours Nazi.
