Ruchir Sharma Profile picture
Public policy reformer | Satire, media, foreign policy, neo-colonialism, philhellenism, Titoism | Jayaprakash Narayan/Kwame Nkrumah/Koča Popović revivalist |

Dec 1, 2020, 8 tweets

In other words, "Clearing blockades and police brutality is only okay when I do it against indigenous communities to make the fossil fuel lobby happy."

We also need no lessons in agricultural policy from a protectionist state which mollycoddles it's inefficient farmers with state patronage, to bribe rural voters.

All while pushing that African and Asian countries must end subsidies and open up their markets to Canadian exports.

"Trudeau famously declared himself a feminist, but he sells weapons to the most vicious and misogynistic government in the world.

Calling poverty sexist, he nevertheless implements policies that impoverish women in Canada and around the world."

jacobinmag.com/2016/09/justin…

His extremist No.2 "knew about her grandfather’s Nazi past...yet she has spent most of her career - first as a journalist, then as Canada’s powerful Foreign Minister, and now as as Deputy PM - praising her grandfather’s legacy and whitewashing the past."

yasha.substack.com/p/chrystia-fre…

It must be a real shock to Trudeau that Prime Ministers in other countries actually use their legislative mandate to enact their electoral promises.

While during his tenure, he has broken 67 campaign promises - 30% of his manifesto, one every 27 days.

trudeaumetre.polimeter.org

"2015-18, attempts were made by Canada and other developed nations to question India’s food stocks programme.

In 2019, several developed countries, including Canada, made an attempt to take India to the WTO dispute settlement body over the MSP issue."
theprint.in/diplomacy/trud…

Jayant Dasgupta, former Indian Ambassador to the WTO, said,

“Canada has questioned India’s farm policies time and again, along with others like the Americans and Australians. Canadians also act at the behest of their major trade partners".

Very polite way to say "client state".

"PM Justin Trudeau of Canada calls himself a feminist and has been proud of his government’s efforts to empower women worldwide.

So a question for Trudeau and all Canadians: Why does Canada host a company that inflicts rape videos on the world?"

nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opi…

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