Justin Trudeau's Dopey, PoMo 150th Birthday Revelry Is an Insult to Canadians...But Only to the Ones Born Here

Mark Steyn has a few things to say about Justin's lame-o birthday celebration:

While we're on the subject, I still can't get over quite what a bust Justin Trudeau's Liberals made of Canada's sesquicentennial. But, if you've ever tried, you'll know it's hard to organize a milestone birthday party for someone you despise, and evidently that goes for countries, too. As Bono told the crowd, ""Whether you have just arrived from Syria or your roots go back thousands of years, this is your home" - which contrast conveniently omits all the people in between, who happen to be the fellows who built the country and quite like it, or at any rate more than the chaps with the ten-thousand-year roots over at that teepee who were raising clenched fists during the singing of "O Canada" and "God Save the Queen". 

If Bono's toast was a sin of omission, Justin was more explicit, declaring that the more Canadian you are the less Canadian you are - at least when compared to a nice Syrian lad fleeing the Trump terror and asking where the Niagara Falls welfare office express check-in is. Sure, all those Gordies and Dereks may think they love their country but they don't love it as much as you Ahmeds and Omars do:

"No!" Trudeau continued. "You chose this country. This is your country more than it is for others because we take it for granted."

He means it. "I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada," says Justin. Just like Caitlyn Jenner is more of a woman than all you default women will ever be. 

Actually, my forebears on both my maternal and paternal sides "chose this country," too--but that was way back in the early part of the 20th Century. And I bet even they would find this prime minister's pandering to be as embarrassing and unpleasant as I do.