Could it be that Canada isn’t filled with warm-fuzzies for their prime minister anymore?
At a recent NHL game between Alberta's Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, Canada's Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to draw vociferous "boo"s when his recorded video message played on the jumbotron.
In case you forgot, Trudeau is the same prime minister who has a famous bromance going on with Barack Obama, and is the darling of America's media.
There was also the time Trudeau penned a lukewarm memorial letter to Cuba’s Communist dictator, Fidel Castro. The letter was so bad that it also (famously) invited boos from hockey fans (sense a recurring theme?), and was figuratively shredded by Ted Cruz on the Senate floor.
Well that was interesting. @JustinTrudeau video before game gets loud boos @bmofield. guy behind me says: "Castro was a dictator!" #greycup
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) November 27, 2016
For context, Justin Trudeau recently made some extremely controversial comments about oilsands, an economic powerhouse in Alberta, claiming they need to be “phased out.” As one commenter put it, Trudeau managed to put an “Alberta-sized hole in his credibility.”
While Canada and the U.S. have radically different political scences, politicians in both nations would probably do well not to ignore rural working-class voters -- particularly when threatening an entire industry in the name of politically-motivated climate change ambitions.