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Always great to be back in my riding! I had a good meeting with the Papineau Youth Council today. Thanks for your ideas on how we can fight climate change, advance gender equality, and make our community - and Canada - better for everyone. pic.twitter.com/Rzc5eMrwz4 — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 24, 2019

The prime minister thanked this youthful followers for their insights, bien sur, and then the memes began being cranked out on social media making a great mockery of Trudeau, his hypocrisy squarely front-and-centre and graphically represented by a pile of throwaway cutlery.

There is little doubt, however, that when Trudeau and his bride departed for the G20 summit in Japan on Wednesday, a team had swept every inch of the government jet and had removed all single-use plastic from the entire fuselage before the reptiles in the parliamentary press corps slithered aboard to snap up that embarrassing story for recycling.

But the damage has already been done. Both of Trudeau’s two faces were out there once again, and he has no one to blame in his Game of Thrones fantasy dreamworld but himself.

It is more than just Trudeau’s hypocrisy, however, that has ordinary folks lathered up and crying that enough is enough.

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If he stopped talking to us like we were dolts, for example, then he may have been cut some slack for the pile of plastic knives and forks that some poor over-worked junior staffer had snapped and tweeted without vetting it first.

Remember when he lectured a young woman about her choice of the word “mankind” during one of his informal town hall meetings, and how he sanctimoniously told her that “we prefer peoplekind?”

Who among us didn’t gag?

Not only were we embarrassed for the young woman, we were embarrassed to have such a putz as our prime minister.