Sunday, September 16, 2018

The gift of perfection

There can be no remedy if one refuses to acknowledge a problem, but the Trudeau government seems unable to accept responsibility for even the most obvious of ethics issues.
The following link is to a CBC piece about the latest conflict of interest violation:

And that, said Turnbull, opens the door for the ministers to insist they didn't really do anything wrong, notwithstanding the conflict commissioner's conclusions — as both Trudeau and Leblanc did this week.
The perception of impropriety should be enough to prevent a Prime Minister from taking the gift an expensive vacation from a *family friend* who also receives government monies ... or a Minister of the Crown from granting a lucrative contract to a *distant relation* -- but here we have Trudeau and a member of his team accepting the findings of the ethics commissioner, saying they won't do it again, but throwing out excuses as to how what they did really doesn't meet the criteria of a violation.
 Maybe it's his upbringing and the yes-men who surround him, but Trudeau seems incapable of accepting responsibility even when he's been called out. When the groping incident resurfaced, first he denied any *negative interactions* and when it became apparent he could not escape that something happened, he went on to say that he was *certain (he) did nothing inappropriate* and finally after the woman spoke out, he granted that something happened, but the woman got it all wrong.  It's a pattern, and a damning one.
Trudeau makes a big production of saying sorry on behalf of Canada for wrongs of long ago, but because he cannot see or admit to his own personal errors, he is unable to muster a sincere or even weak apology on behalf of himself when he's been caught in a misdeed. He has the self-awareness of a five year old – conscious of attention, and playing for an audience, but lacking the depth to understand the consequences of his actions, and their effect on others. Making excuses, downplaying his own past transgressions, shifting blame -- these are glaring character flaws, disturbing in someone who wields so much influence and power.
This is not someone who can learn from mistakes, because to his mind, he's never made one.
canadianna

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

old white guy says---------------what more can one expect from a silver spoon socialist liberal?