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When Justin Trudeau was first asked about his government’s decision to give MasterCard $50 million in corporate welfare this week, his immediate response was to invoke the middle class.

“Over the past five years, we have been focused on growing the middle class and supporting those working hard to join it. That is exactly what we have done,” Trudeau said.

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If you have a hard time figuring out how handing a company that made $16 billion last year is helping the middle class, you’re not alone. Then again, we know the Trudeau government has a great deal of trouble defining the middle class.

Yes, we could make the usual jokes about Trudeau, born at 24 Sussex with a silver spoon in his mouth, not knowing the middle class. That would all be true and valid. It’s hard to get the middle-class experience when you are a trust fund kid like he is.

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Yet it is more than that. The Trudeau Liberals have been talking about the middle class and those working hard to join it for years now. They’ve run two elections on helping the middle class and after this last election appointed a minister of middle class prosperity.