The truly wretched of the Earth grow more wretched and the world, as they say, marches on. The address easily could have been passed off as a high-school valedictorian speech: it was trite, without being testy, and full of false equivalencies. It bore the now-ineluctable stamp of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s compulsion to hymn, yet again, the all-ranging virtues of diversity. Fluffing a pillow in front of the UN delegates would have had more of an impactThis word “diversity” has something of a clamp on Trudeau’s brain. Saying the word “diversity” is not like waving a magic wand that somehow rids us of all tribulation and want.

Source: National Post September 23, 2016 19:41 UTC