{"id":36703,"date":"2016-12-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36703"},"modified":"2016-12-18T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T17:38:14","slug":"justin-trudeaus-actual-role-in-the-trudeau-foundations-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/justin-trudeaus-actual-role-in-the-trudeau-foundations-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau’s actual role in the Trudeau Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Campbell<\/a> finds an oddly charitable way to describe the Prime Minister’s efforts on behalf of the Trudeau Foundation, and a contrast with Hillary Clinton’s role in the Clinton Foundation’s work:<\/p>\n

Let me be very, very clear: I do not doubt Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s personal honesty; nor so I actually think he is smart enough, devious enough to manage a \u201ccash for access\u201d scheme. The \u201ccash for access\u201d scandal is, as Professor Tom Flanagan says, something that all parties, Conservatives, too, both nationally and provincially, have always done. Prime Minister Trudeau is, rightfully, being hammered not for schmoozing with the wealthy, but, rather, for his own person hypocrisy about the issue. But the Trudeau foundation is a bit different and a bit more dangerous. I think the Trudeau Foundation was set up, using $125 Million of Canadian public (taxpayers\u2019) money \u201cdonated\u201d by then Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien, as a mechanism to perpetuate a Liberal icon and to provide a sinecure for Justin Trudeau and, thereby, to help him shelter some of his substantial family wealth from zealous tax collectors; and he is rather like an employee \u2026 something akin to a Disneyland Princess who gets trotted out to pose with the paying customers. But the warnings from Candice Malcolm and Tony Keller are valid and Prime Minister Trudeau should pay heed. Americans forgave Donald Trump for his great wealth and tax evasion and a hundred other faults because he spoke to them about their own fears. They did not forgive Mrs Clinton because, I think, she talked at them, not with them, and she talked about people and issues that working class Americans thought had already received enough attention and even special treatment.<\/p>\n

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Justin Trudeau is perceived, already, as a pampered, privileged \u201ctrust fund kid\u201d who, despite the rhetoric, doesn\u2019t really understand middle class, much less working class Canadians. Prime Minister Trudeau won, in 2015, in large measure because Canadian were tired of Prime Minister Harper, and because he is genuinely \u201cnice,\u201d but not because Canadians think he is, in any way, \u201cone of them.\u201d He could lose, as Hillary Clinton lost, if Canadians decide that he is using his high office to feather his own already substantial nest with \u201cdirty\u201d foreign money while he sells out Canadians\u2019 interests. It may be unfair but the media have this bit between their teeth and they are not likely to just let it go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Campbell finds an oddly charitable way to describe the Prime Minister’s efforts on behalf of the Trudeau Foundation, and a contrast with Hillary Clinton’s role in the Clinton Foundation’s work: Let me be very, very clear: I do not doubt Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s personal honesty; nor so I actually think he is smart enough, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[769,887,908],"class_list":["post-36703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-jeanchretien","tag-justintrudeau","tag-liberalparty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36713,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703\/revisions\/36713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}