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He couldn’t stop himself. No, for Justin Trudeau it was too tempting. The world was watching, after all.

So after avoiding the question for 24 hours, he did what, in our bones, we knew he’d do. He agreed Canada was guilty of genocide in its dealings with Aboriginal peoples, following the same explosive wording in the report into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

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Now Trudeau likes messing with words — “peoplekind” springs to mind — but you’d hope a prime minister would look up the definition of such an immensely loaded word as genocide before accusing his own nation of a crime against humanity.

Oh, he didn’t say it was his fault. But isn’t the serving leader of a country responsible for the state-sanctioned, deliberate slaughter of an entire ethnic group?

So if not him, then who’s to blame? The nice old lady who does my dry cleaning?

Or maybe Trudeau is implying his predecessors in Canada’s top job should carry the can. Well, those folk must be overjoyed to know they might be dragged into the same dreadful category as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and Idi Amin.