'The Jamaican vacation seems to have been just on the right side of the Conflict of Interest Act. That's the only good thing about it'
Indeed, this Jamaican misadventure is much more similar to the Bahamian misadventure than it is different.
There’s the same total lack of interest in transparency. I say the Greens of Ocho Rios “apparently” paid for the Trudeaus’ accommodations because Trudeau refused to say one way or the other — which is as good as saying the Greens paid for it, only while raising a giant middle finger to everyone reasonably asking about it.
There’s the unapologetic decadence. I continue to insist, quixotically, that a prime minister who’s as concerned about climate change as Trudeau claims to be would attempt at least now and again to model the sorts of behaviour he claims the rest of us need to adopt: Go to Mont-Tremblant instead of Tofino, say. Fly commercial on vacation, as British prime ministers often do. Have a Staycation at Harrington Lake, maybe — they won’t always have unfettered access to it, after all! But no. Never.
And there’s the perceived conflict of interest — which savvy politicians realize is just as bad as “real” conflict of interest. So far as we know, unlike the Aga Khan Foundation, the Greens and any associated entities do not lobby the federal government for funding.
Clearly Trudeau still has some Teflon left on him, or he wouldn’t have the job and the polling numbers he enjoys to this day. It might well win another election campaign, for all we know now. Either way, historians will have to grapple with why Trudeau and his advisers seemed so determined to make his tenure as short and greasy as possible. If Trudeau had just paid for the stupid villa, which he could clearly afford, there would be no issue here at all.
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