As for his brains, it is Gerald Butts who is driving the agenda, Justin Trudeau is just their salesman because unfortunately in today’s 10 second world image rather than policies seems to matter more. And considering how badly Butt’s policies have failed in Ontario we should be worried. At least had the Liberals chosen Marc Garneau instead of Trudeau, I don’t think we would have as much to worry about.

What’s odd here is he is part of the top 1% he hates. Yes it is true right now soaking the rich is quite popular, but if you look where it has been tried it almost never has worked out. More importantly I would rather live in a country where people strive to be successful whether they make the top 1% or not rather than one where success is frowned upon. Our top tax rate is now higher than some fairly socialistic European countries like Germany and France and only a few points lower than the Nordic ones. If you want more generous social programs, the only way to do it is a higher sales tax which off course no one wants, but that is how they fund it. There simply aren’t enough rich people out there to raise that amount of money.

As JR’s blog post pointed out https://jr2020.blogspot.ca/2016/01/pm-selfies-embarrassing-performance-in.html other commentators, besides Coyne, found that line “dumb” and worse.

Yes, we were told by the media how much love he garnered; but apparently not so much in the back rooms if the insiders are telling the truth about the CF-18 pull out and the actual reaction to that decision. That was downplayed by the CBC with the official excuse that there will be other meetings.

Of course, he is probably only looking for investors for green technologies and that comes with tax payer funded government grants after the Ontario model of revenue generating incompetence.

The other meaning for Canadian resourcefulness is that people will learn to work around the $10 caulifower and the $18 orange juice. That can be shrugged off.

Trudeau, what can I say about him that’s complimentary? The man is no intellectual, has no practical ability, and is nothing more than a third rate actor spouting cliches, the “Harper-resources” line being just another of the hundreds he’s spouted since he was elected LPC leader.

Unfortunately, the statement means nothing, Canadians are not unique in our resourcefulness, and are actually quite a bit less resourceful than other people, “necessity is the mother of etc.” The Israelis are resourceful, so are the Chinese and Indians, and in this real world of trade between nations, we have to compete with them, among many others.
Trudeau and the rest of pseudo-intellectuals who infest Canada today seem to believe that we can do anything better than anyone else, because we just CAN! And I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue if you don’t agree.
Trudeau hasn’t a clue as to what he said in Davos, his attendance and utterances at various meetings he’s attended was like watching a child try to find his way. Cringeworthy is a new term I like to describe most of Trudeau’s moments in the spotlight.
Every so-called intellectual will one day write a book, , or several books, telling the world about just how brilliant he is, as Ignatieff did a while back, and the Toronto latte crowd will be impressed and will buy the book and discuss his brilliance at parties for months. And that will be the total effect of his genius on the world.

Every person who worships at the shrine of intellectualism should read the autobiography of Canada’s richest man, Jimmy Pattison, for an inspiring example of a person who IS an intellectual and a practical person all rolled into one.

Trudeau is simply too sheltered to understand economics, and his pathetic homilies must have the world’s leaders laughing their butts off behind closed doors.
Yes, Justin, we DO have a modicum of resourcefulness, as does everyone else, but we also have high taxes, a regulatory nightmare that grows worse every year, high labor and energy costs, a green lobby that makes doing business here impractical, for all our “resourcefulness”.

But we DO have RESOURCES, Justin, and the resourcefulness to exploit them, if you and the rest of the “anti” factions would get the hell out of the way.