Then there was that time he compared ISIS terrorists to Italian immigrants of the 1950s.

This one is weird, even by Justin Trudeau’s standards. At a town hall meeting, our prime minister compared returning ISIS terrorist suspects to hard-working but misunderstood Italian and Portuguese immigrants. It was very bizarre.

The context: Public safety minister Ralph Goodale had recently admitted that some 250 people with links to Canada were suspected of travelling overseas to engage in terrorist activities, including at least sixty known ISIS fighters who had already returned. An understandable security concern, no?

At the town hall meeting, the father of a young daughter asked Justin how his government was going to protect Canadians from this. Justin, however, answered him by going on and on about not terrorists or security, but cultural diversity, about the Vietnamese boat people of the 1970s and the Portuguese and Italian newcomers of the 1950s. And no, I am not making any of this up.

Again, the question was not about welcoming refugees or new immigrants into Canada, it was specifically about terrorism. Let me repeat that: the question had nothing to do with immigration, it was about ISIS. (You remember ISIS. They’re the ones who behead prisoners and throw homosexuals off rooftops.) The following is just part of Justin’s rambling non-answer. Justin Trudeau, intellectual par excellence!