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The only thing that really shocks me about Justingate is all the shock.

Throughout English Canada, especially Ontario, most columnists, editorialists and letters-to-the-editor are outraged and practically crazed about the PM’s behaviour.

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They’ve demanded he resign, “dissolve Parliament” and call “immediate elections.” They speak of the “worst scandal since the 1873 Pacific (rail) Scandal” and talk of feeling “embarrassed” for Canada on the world stage.

You’d think Trudeau had done something no other world leader would ever do — like paying hush money to a porn star he had sex with.

Meanwhile, here in Quebec, the whole affair has been greeted with a collective shrug. Yes, Trudeau badly mismanaged events and communicated like a marionette — but more out of “amateurism” and “maladroitness” than malice, say most opinion-writers.

Trudeau and his minions may have pestered former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould too much about SNC-Lavalin — and failed to understand her no meant no. But as La Presse’s Lysiane Gagnon put it: “It’s hardly scandalizing to learn that in closed-door meetings politicians discuss … politics.”