Commentary
While many Canadians haven’t been able to travel out of the country for years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and others haven’t been able to travel due to passport renewals being caught in bureaucratic limbo, Canada’s jet-setting prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has flown to Costa Rica for a family vacation.
I don’t begrudge the prime minister a vacation. He is working in a high-stress role and deserves personal time with his family as much as anybody else does. It is the tone-deaf hypocrisy of Trudeau that galls a person. While the rest of the country is being told to tighten their belts and reconsider their lifestyle choices to battle climate change, the prime minister continues a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption as he seems to spend more time airborne for trivial reasons than he does on the ground….