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You might not think the Trudeau government’s desperate efforts to win Canada a seat on the United Nations security council, the current stall in NAFTA negotiations and Trans Mountain pipeline construction, our I-hate-my-job governor general and a proposed handgun ban were all related. But they are.

They are all (along with many, many other issues) examples of the Trudeau Liberals’ obsession with symbolism over substance.

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The current federal government not only favours platitudes over policy, it can’t tell the difference between the two. It confuses articulation with achievement. By simply expressing its outrage/empathy/understanding, this government believes it is offering solutions.

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They take criticisms that they are obsessed with virtue-signalling and identity politics as compliments.

All of which makes the UN Security Council the perfect place for our current federal government to demonstrate its moral superiority.