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As much as I roll my eyes at the Liberal social-justice puritans and cancel-culture fanatics who very suddenly are pontificating about how the quality of mercy is never strained, the response from Trudeau’s critics often has been equally ridiculous. On social media, you hear some pundits wondering aloud whether Trudeau will now be forced to resign — as if this were somehow worse than gaslighting his own attorney general while turning the PMO into a concierge service for an engineering company accused of renting hookers for the son of a Libyan dictator. Meanwhile, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told the media: “Who is the real Trudeau? Is it the one behind closed doors, the one when the cameras are turned off that no one sees?” — as if the curtains had been raised on the window of Trudeau’s bedroom while he was performing some kind of pervy one-man cultural-appropriation fetish show. The very opposite is true: Trudeau dressed up in these ludicrous outfits precisely to please public crowds. He was not ashamed of what he was doing because he believed the public would regard it as funny and entertaining.

Conservatives have been just as bad, with many demanding that these disclosures be leveraged for culture-war vengeance; and that Trudeau be effectively “cancelled,” much in the way that Trudeau cancelled the careers of two of his own MPs after receiving unverified accounts that they’d engaged in sexual misconduct. Trudeau and the people he surrounds himself with prattle on endlessly about “toxic masculinity.” They have injected intersectional gibberish into Canadian infrastructural requirements. His minister for sport goes on Twitter to contradict women who are concerned about male bodies in female sporting spaces. And so, yes, it is delicious to watch the ultimate Canadian social-justice level boss betrayed as just another imperfect soul. The charge of hypocrisy is completely fair, and in a perfect world, Trudeau will use this opportunity to admit as much.