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Originally Posted by SportsJunky
I don't get it. The NDP were blocking the Whip with full knowledge that they were impeding his progress. Why? Just to be jerks? Trudeau had enough and so he led the guy through the silliness. What should he have done? Sit there and watch the blockade game? He's the leader of our country. I think he was showing leadership right there. I would have done the same thing. He didn't yank the guy's arm off. His intention (I think), was to show his displeasure with the immaturity of those folks and to get on with things. No problem at all with what Trudeau did there. I'm not sure he should have apologized for his actions.
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Yes. Trudeau is the Prime Minister, but he does not command or control the House of Commons. He has no authority to interject himself into that situation. That he did so was a small breach of decorum. That he even laid a hand on another MP was a major breach of decorum.
The answer to what Trudeau should have done was simply to wait. The Speaker would eventually have gotten tired of the NDP's little game and ordered them to their seats. Trudeau turned a protest that would have lasted a few minutes at most into an international black eye. Whatever the hyperbole the opposition parties have been flinging in the aftermath, none of it happens if Trudeau remembers he is an MP, not a princeling.
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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
In a way, he is lucky that opposition MPs are making themselves look even worse in their desperate attempts to make political hay out of this utterly idiotic storm-in-a-teacup faux controversy. They should all be ashamed.
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This, exactly. Just about the only person involved who has handled himself properly was the Conservative Whip. Everyone else looks dumb, and the opposition - especially the NDP - are really badly overplaying their hand.