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“Consider the lilies of the field … they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Justin on the India trip (and he had top designers) was not arrayed like one of these.” St. Matthew of Dior

Everyone agrees our prime minister is both elegant and stylish. How well he looks and dresses is the prime well of his confidence. But this week’s Passage Through India was a struggle between self-parody and narcissism in which, alas, both sides won. Mr. Trudeau showed up in India with more costumes than a Vegas chorus line on a 50-state tour.

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From the Taj Mahal to the Golden Temple, in the foreground of the splendours of Indian architecture and belief, Justin and Sophie offered a pose in every conceivable Indian fashion but (thank Shiva) the dhoti. Judging from the PM’s apparel the point of this Canadian trade mission was to bring India to India. An uncomfortable redundancy one might assume. But perhaps not incidentally a wonderful opportunity to harvest a propaganda stockpile for future Diversity is Our Strength Liberal campaigns among the diaspora: a Niagara of selfies, instagrams by the bushel, glossies for posters yet to come, and film for Imax rallies yet to be called.

Dull old Stephen Harper used to just visit countries; Justin Trudeau goes abroad to wear them

Hence the fashion show. Dull old Stephen Harper used to just visit countries; Justin Trudeau goes abroad to wear them.