Justin Trudeau’s government offers a weak response to the city’s violent anti-Semitic riots.
The Roman Emperor Nero is said to have “fiddled” while Rome burned. That’s not wholly true. Rome did catch fire during Nero’s reign, but there were no fiddles or bowed instruments of any kind. The original story, as reported by the historian Suetonius, is that Nero put on a stage costume, climbed to the top of a tower, and sang about the fall of Troy as Rome went up in flames beneath him.
But here in Canada we don’t need Nero. We have Justin Trudeau, he of the strange fondness for costumes and blackface, dancing while Montreal burns.
