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He is there and then he is gone.

Trudeau touches down in Edmonton for a shorter time than a race car driver takes to make a pit stop. He is on his way to a much better fishing hole.

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Quebec.

Trudeau serves the warmed-up leftovers from more important campaign engagements — the same words repeated over and over again with a persistence only a drama teacher could bring to a script.

But the faithful do not care. They want to see their man and would cheer their lungs out if he read a page from an old Edmonton phone book.

Four more years! Four more years! We love you, Justin!

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For those with less enthusiasm, what Trudeau has to say is the square root of squat. Syllables come out of his mouth but they’re like the bubbles you would blow as a kid.

Pretty, lasting an instant and then a pop … into nothingness.

The prime minister tells us he invested in oil and gas workers. After all, he says, the government bought the Trans Mountain pipeline. That is, the taxpayer bought the Trans Mountain pipeline.