Unless “leading by example” has become just wreckage in a ditch, then the Liberals are in dire need of a prime minister whose example is worthy of both admiration and emulation.

Justin Trudeau, once touted as the champion of “sunny ways” who would quell the bitter rhetoric of modern politics and finally bring transparency to the forefront, has shown in a brief passage in time to be a false god.

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As his Environment Minister Catherine McKenna challenges the Opposition to embrace her motion to declare Canada to be in a “climate emergency,” a very foreboding catchphrase for sure, our prime minister cannot do what his government wants average Canadians to do,

He cannot cut back.

And he can’t cut back because he never has, and has never had to.

Everyday Canadians, meanwhile, sense their blood pressures rising every time the Liberals’ carbon tax is reflected in the price of gas at the pumps, in the fuel-oil bills for heating their homes, and in the added trickle-down costs of staple consumer goods.

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Trudeau has no such worries, thanks to the millions in his family trust fund.

If Trudeau wants a vacation surfing off the shores of Tofino as our PM, for example, he simply flies off to British Columbia on the taxpayers’ dime and hits the waves off Chesterman Beach.

Ditto if he wants to snowboard in Whistler.

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He simply goes, with scant or no regard for his carbon footprint.

During his Florida vacation this winter, which happened during the simmering of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, he flew to and from Fort Myers not once, not twice, but four times, returning to the frigidity of the nation’s capital for private meetings with his inner circle that undoubtedly had a rather heavy focus on the developing Lavalin shitstorm.

A Challenger 604 jet, according to JetAdvisors.com, has an average fuel consumption of 1,324 litres per hour.

The one-way flight time from Ottawa to Fort Myers, as calculated on travelmath.com, is three hours, 11 minutes.

Only hours after rejoining his family in Florida on his final trip back to the sun, Trudeau blithely posted on Twitter that his government would make “big polluters pay.”

Much hilarity surely ensued among those in the know within the PMO, but there is nothing funny about it.

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Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who has promised to lay out his party’s climate plan before Parliament ends in June, summed it up nicely in the wake of McKenna’s demand that her motion to declare a national “climate emergency” be given the Commons’ approval.

“Justin Trudeau is a high-carbon hypocrite,” he said.

“Flying to Tofino for a vacation, flying to and from Florida four times in three days, to come back from his vacation for an Instagram photo-op, are not the actions of someone who thinks that there is a climate change emergency.”

And that’s not counting his Mother’s Day trip to Chicago to see his mom debut in her one-person stage show Certain Woman of an Age, nor the 36 international trips to 28 different countries he’s taken since assuming power, just recently returning from his sixth visit to France.

Catherine McKenna, meanwhile, knows who the immediate enemy is, and it’s not the end of our world.

It’s Andrew Scheer, and an election just five months away.

“He’s meeting with oil lobbyists and he’s committed to making it free to pollute,” McKenna has accused of Scheer.

She has nothing to back this up with, of course.

But it’s the best bogeyman image she could conjure.