The media love Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He’s a total hunk who surprises his fellow Canadians by jumping out of caves shirtless and photobombing their wedding photos in a wetsuit.
U.S. liberals, who are tired of pretending to be excited about Hillary Clinton, are especially fond of the woke bae prime minister. He’s feminist! And a semi-professional boxer! What a hunk!
Seriously, it’s out of control.
Trudeau helps people in wheelchairs go down stairs. And even when he’s behaving like a good feminist, when he’s elbowing a female colleague on the floor of parliament, Trudeau maintains his boyish charm, and his popularity as well.
Unfortunately, all this fawning media attention has obscured the fact that Trudeau has a shrinkage problem on his hands.
Reuters reports that the Canadian economy shrank at an annualized rate of 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 2016. The shrinkage marked the worst decline since the second quarter of 2009 in the midst of the global economic crisis.
Canada’s exports and service sector shrank tremendously in the second quarter, contracting at an annualized rate of 16.7 percent. That’s not good.
Maybe Justin Trudeau should spend less time on half-naked spelunking adventures and more time “sparring” with the forces dragging down his country’s economy.
TAKE THE POLL