Western Standard - July 13, 2023


Trudeau's attempt to flip a pancake...


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Length

2 minutes

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185.65054

Word count

527

Sentence count

38


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Justin Trudeau's attempt to flip a pancake at the end of a campaign stop in Alberta backfired spectacularly, as every politician does when it comes to the simple task of doing something as simple as flipping a single pancake.

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00:00:00.000 Filling with a metaphor for Trudeau's visit to Alberta was his fine attempt at the simple, relatively simple task of flipping a pancake at the stampede, as every politician does.
00:00:12.600 And it seems to have blown up in his face or on his lap, actually.
00:00:18.040 It's funny. The instant I saw that, you know, here we go.
00:00:23.280 Within minutes, it was a meme going across Canada.
00:00:26.060 You know, he was just ridiculed. We had a story with Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel-Garner saying this was a politician's worst nightmare.
00:00:37.200 And she actually gave instructions on how to do it probably because I'm sure she's flipped a few pancakes in her lifetime, too.
00:00:45.580 Yeah, I mean, what a mess. I'm sure the PR people would have just sat there shaking their heads.
00:00:51.300 To be fair, I hate to be fair, but when a certain conservative prime ministerial candidate by the name of Robert Stanfield fumbled a ball.
00:01:03.440 Dropped the ball.
00:01:04.140 You know, that was taken as a metaphor of his competence to govern.
00:01:08.980 And I believe I'm correct in saying that he, in the warm-up, the practice where they, this is how we do it, let's get it right.
00:01:17.720 He was doing perfect, perfect.
00:01:21.140 And then when the real thing came, he dropped it.
00:01:25.100 You know, the best prime minister of Canada never had was the legend who was born.
00:01:28.760 So I, as I say, I'll attack Mr. Trudeau day and night on his climate change policies and a lot of other things besides, but I can forgive him for squishing a pancake.
00:01:38.480 Oh, everybody has their moments, you know, when you slip and it splattered, there was too much grease or whatever.
00:01:43.520 It just, it does hit on people.
00:01:45.180 As you said, was Stanfield fair or not fair?
00:01:46.980 Because part of the image of Justin Trudeau, too, is he's a gentleman who never, well.
00:01:52.180 You're a student of history.
00:01:53.280 Yeah, right.
00:01:53.800 He's a student of history.
00:01:54.760 Trudeau's a guy who's never really cooked a meal for himself.
00:01:57.060 It's not exactly, how many does he spend on groceries a year, $60,000, $70,000 or something like that?
00:02:02.440 Yeah, flipping a pancake is usually kind of a rudimentary kitchen skill.
00:02:05.680 It's a metaphor for how he's running the country.
00:02:08.600 I mean, I do know that back in my PMO days, you would not have had to tell Stephen Harper how to flip a pancake.
00:02:15.500 No.
00:02:15.760 Well, if there was any doubt about it, there would have been a, there would have been a practice, let's get this right.
00:02:22.740 But again, like the t-shirt thing with Smith, it's just something to chuckle over.
00:02:25.660 Yeah, it's not the issue of this decade.
00:02:29.020 We've got bigger ones with Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:02:31.940 But we could chuckle a little again.
00:02:33.360 Anytime we can mock them, the better.
00:02:35.720 Well, it makes me think of like, there's a Homer Simpson meme, you know, he's trying something on the Simpsons,
00:02:40.660 or he's trying to make a recipe, you know, with milk and cereal, and he pours the two together and it catches on fire.
00:02:46.320 That's how inept you are, and it's just what's kind of funny.