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UNITED NATIONS — “We’re Canadians. And we’re here to help.”

Justin Trudeau concluded his strange little speech to the United Nations General Assembly with a line that veered dangerously close to satirical fodder. As Ronald Reagan once noted, the most dangerous words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

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But the UN is not a hotbed of satire. The line may have reinforced every goofy stereotype about Canadian boy scouts but the audience loved it.

Trudeau was welcomed by cheers; his George Bailey-style aw-shucks earnestness persuaded the audience to pay attention — no small feat in a hall that is all but deserted when the undercard is playing.

That was just as well because the speech was as thin as soup made from the carcass of a starving pigeon.

Trudeau’s pitch about focusing on what brings us together, rather than on what divides us, is yesterday’s news in Canada.