 | ...which is why he is working to bring in more refugees from Syria and elsewhere. But he is decorative, so he's got that going for him. |
[Guardian] Ordinary people around the world have been failed by globalisation, Justin Trudeau has told the Guardian, as he sought to explain a turbulent year marked by the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of anti-establishment, nation-first parties around the world.
"What we’re facing right now ‐ in terms of the rise of populism and divisive and fearful narratives around the world ‐ it’s based around the fact that globalisation doesn’t seem to be working for the middle class, for ordinary people," the Canadian prime minister said in an interview at his oak-panelled office in the country’s parliament. "And this is something that we identified years ago and built an entire platform and agenda for governing on."
| "So that we can beat the proles back into submission," he continued... |
Last year, at a time when Trump was being described as a long shot for president and the threat of Brexit seemed a distant possibility, Trudeau, 44, swept to a majority government on an ambitious platform that included addressing growing inequality and creating real change for the country’s middle class.
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