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Even by the usual low standard, the man fails the grade.

Justin Trudeau looks spineless, gutless and even weaker this day than the 97-pound weakling in the Charles Atlas muscleman ads from the comic books of old.

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Oh, the prime minister ladles on whatever artificial sweetener can still be extracted from his so-called sunny ways.

Trudeau says he gets how we’re upset, frustrated, troubled and how our patience is wearing thin. He understands us. So he says.

We are asked to understand him as he creates “a space for peaceful honest dialogue” and his government extends their hands in good faith while workers and seniors and protesters and cops are “in this together.”

What tripe.

You wouldn’t think the PM was talking about illegal blockades by radical anti-oil and gas axe-grinders far away from that part of northern B.C. where the vast majority of First Nations people along with their elected politicians support the Coastal GasLink pipeline.