Trudeau is treated differently, however, while travelling on the world stage. He’s enjoyed favourable media coverage and his long tour of India was supposed to be a fresh opportunity to capitalise on his international popularity. But, as we all know, Trudeau’s time in India has instead been a diplomatic disaster. So, what went wrong? In a word, narcissism — paired with superficiality and poor judgement.
The trip started off on a disappointing note, as the Trudeau delegation was received at the airport by a minister of state, not even a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. International and local observers speculated that Trudeau was being snubbed, given the cold shoulder, over unscrupulous ties between his Liberal Party and Khalistani separatists and extremists.
Trudeau’s partisan pandering went so far as attending a Khalsa Day parade in Toronto in 2017, where he gave a speech and was photographed in front of the yellow-andblue Khalistan separatist flag. Trudeau’s predecessor Stephen Harper refused to attend this event, and for good reason. These events feature militant Khalistani parade floats, posters and shrines dedicated to terrorists, and speakers calling for a violent upheaval in India. Trudeau’s poor judgement in attending this event was catching ..
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