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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tripped over his ideology once again, this time while discussing the sad state of Venezuela.

The South American country’s economy is crumbling, inflation is running rampant, crime has skyrocketed, starvation is widespread and an exodus of people are fleeing the country – some even seeking asylum in Canada.

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While speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, the PM placed the blame squarely at the foot of “the failure of leadership in Venezuela.”

Trudeau along with the leaders of several South American countries jointly signed a statement formally calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate President Nicolas Maduro’s regime for extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detentions.

These crimes certainly warrant serious attention. But to cast Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis” as a “failure of leadership” suggests Trudeau simply doesn’t grasp the demonstrable failure of socialism as a political ideology.