The Man We Call Prime Minister - a Brazen Little Hussy

Justin Trudeau, continuing on this year's campaign theme of 'I'm better than that jerk' is warning that our chances of fighting climate change will be dead as a National Lampoon's dog if we don't return the Liberals to power.

There it is kids.  Pipeline Pete is our last, best chance, our only hope, and, if we don't see that, we're toast. Those grandkids? Screw'em, they're fried.

"If we don't demonstrate that we can take real, tangible actions on the environment and continue to get the support of Canadians, no Canadian government's going to bother defending the environment anymore," Trudeau tells CBC senior writer Aaron Wherry in Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power, released this week. 

"It'll be seen as an electoral loser. And I can't have that, we can't have that, we can't afford ... Canada can't afford that," Trudeau told Wherry.

Is Trudeau the better bet than Scheer on the environment? Yes, no question. Should that translate into our votes? No, not at all. We're in the opening stages of a climate emergency. It's like every house from Newfoundland to British Columbia is about to catch fire. It's against that threat that the candidates are to be measured, not against each other.

Churchill spoke of emergencies when he said that "It is not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we must do what is required." That, and that alone, is the litmus test for leadership in times of emergency. On that test, both Scheer and Trudeau are dismal failures.