Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a news conference in Ottawa on March 19, 2021. Trudeau recently described the Canadian Parliament as being “built around a system of colonialism, of discrimination, of systemic racism.” PHOTO BY BLAIR GABLE/REUTERS

 

Judging from his comments following Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah, Canadians should feel shame, not pride, in their Parliament

by Rex Murphy

March 22, 2021

I have absolutely nothing to say about the titanically hyped interview of Meghan and Harry, as they are always coyly referred to — just a couple of buddies from down the street. Except to remark in passing that it was drivel and tripe from start to finish, complete with plaster-of-Paris trauma tales and obligatory tattletale (“Kate Middleton made her cry.”)

I will note also, that with all my years I do not and cannot understand why talking over the television clothesline with Oprah Winfrey, as she conducts what I call “soul tours” of the rich, the famous and the vapid constitutes, a “bombshell event.” I have a different view of munitions.

To be a little esoteric, there is a phrase in Shakespeare’s buddy, Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, that in its day was greatly cited, a kind of late 16th-century meme. It was “Holla, ye pampered jades!” Pampered jades, crafted by a great poet so long ago, slides like a glove over these plush exhibitionists.

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  1. Mr Murphy has a way to make our PM look like an embarrassing, idiotic moronic juvenile POS. Correction Mr Murphy simply points out the obvious

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