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There are times when you have to wonder if the prime minister isn’t troubled when his more zealous servants and supporters mistake his natural partisan exuberance for something darker.

Consider Friday’s events in Prince Edward Island.

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was to kiss babies and pose for selifes at the Tignish Parish Centre and the Our Lady of Assumption parish hall in Stratford.

I’m sure the prime minister, like any civic-minded person, was disappointed to learn that the diocese of Charlottetown decided at the last minute to ban the Liberal leader from glad-handing on church property.

The church defensively pointed to its longstanding policy of not allowing partisan events.

“It could appear to be showing favouritism or political advocacy,” Bishop Richard Grecco told PEI CBC.

Never mind that two Progressive Conservative MLAs held events in the Stratford hall this year.

“When three or four years lapse, I guess people’s memories aren’t as clear as they should be,” church spokesman Gerry Gabriel told The Guardian.