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With the forces now being applied to politics pushing populations further apart, leaders face a choice: be a bridge builder or a ditch digger.

For his part, Justin Trudeau is happily toting a spade.

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That’s right. Mr. Sunny Ways, the brightest symbol of global liberalism, is a divider, not a uniter, to put it in terms Trudeau wouldn’t understand, so unfamiliar is he with the cannon of the centre-right.

To be sure, Trudeau certainly speaks like a bridge builder — indeed, he does little else — and he probably even thinks he’s a builder, but the record is one of ditch and division.

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Pick an issue, almost any issue, and Trudeau and his virtue-tweeting conscripts are digging a trench between the government position and that of the opposition. Not satisfied with stopping there, Trudeau takes the mud from their efforts and flings it at his opponents.

That’s how adversaries of Terri-Lynne McClintic’s transfer to a healing lodge to serve the remainder of her sentence for the savage murder of Tori Stafford became “ambulance-chasing politicians.”