This mornings post is in regards to this news article in the Star: ‘Poverty is sexist,’ Trudeau says at AIDS conference in Montreal …
I’m trying very hard to be non partisan here. And it’s quite honestly giving me a headache. As most speeches by Justin Trudeau have the tendency to do. But here at Media Watch, I’d like to say we do the best to remain unbiased, and so I’ll just state the facts as I see them, and treat my symptoms later.
I think it’s wonderful that the Prime Minister of Canada is trying to tackle issues like gender inequality, and disease like AIDS and Tuberculosis. It’s even more wonderful that he’s encouraging other countries to get on board and join that fight.
He and the Zuckerberg’s (Mark and his wife Pricilla Chan) should definitely talk, given the recent declaration of Facebook founder to a 10 year, $3 Billion plan to cure all diseases. It’s both bold and grandiose. But what it lacks in real world application, it more than makes up for in ingenuity and when it comes to mainstream media, that’s often enough.
Trudeau certainly has high aspirations for himself when he says “Canada can go to other rich countries like Sweden and Germany and say ‘we’re stepping up; you step up,’” And it amounts to childhood dares of “I’m jumping off this bridge into shallow water, so you should too.”
For a government big on promises, and short on actual resolution, it’s an oddly self gratifying declaration. But if the future is with women, then people like Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and Theresa May are strange figureheads to lead that revolution.
Sources
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/16/trudeau-hosts-star-studded-aids-conference-in-montreal.html
Musings
It seems that CBC got it right yesterday, with an excellent article by senior writer Aaron Wherry, who penned this piece on Trudeau’s question period: Link to article
Senior Trudeau staffers offer to give back $65,000 in “unreasonable moving expenses”: Link to article
And finally, Huffington Post is developing a crush on Canadian PM: Link to article
Media Spin 