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How arrogant is it when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems eager to apologize for everyone else’s sins but never his own?

Since becoming PM back in November of 2015, Trudeau has offered apologies – both official and unofficial — to Inuit, Italians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Nazi-fleeing Jews, numerous First Nations and Indigenous individuals and LGBTQ diplomats, civil servants and military personnel.

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Trudeau didn’t invent official contrition, but he has become the master of it.

The habit began back in 1988 when then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered an official apology and some minor financial compensation to Japanese-Canadians who had had their property taken from and been herded into internment camps during the Second World War.

Even hard-nosed Stephen Harper made a few. Harper repented on behalf of the federal government for the head tax charged to Chinese immigrants between 1885 and 1923, for the internment of Ukrainian-Canadians during the First World War, for residential schools and for the Komagata Maru incident in 1914. (A boatload of potential immigrants from India’s Punjab were mostly ordered to return to India.)