Prime Minister Trudeau, with his ‘not a snowball’s chance in hell!’ comment, seems to be trying to play the Captain Canuck role. Writer Brian Giesbrecht says it doesn’t fit well with consisten denigration of Canada as ‘post-national’ state with no core identity. Courtesy Kalman Andrasofszky/Fan Expo Regina via CBC

Canada… thanks to Trudeau, a thoroughly degraded, internationally disrespected shadow of its former self, being investigated for committing genocide.’

In response to what is obviously a bargaining ploy by Donald Trump to use economic force to get what he wants from us, our now “former, but still there” PM has come out swinging. A defiant Trudeau, in boxing stance, told Trump (not to his face, mind you) “there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” that this would happen. Trudeau was telling us all that despite his humiliating forced retirement, he would be our “Captain Canada.”