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Once upon a time a young man from Canada stood in front of a chalkboard and discussed physics and the whole world heard his tale and was bewitched by his grace and people wrote letters that said “I love this young man from Canada” and “I would like to have sex with this young man from Canada” and the children of the world held hands and cried out his name in admiration.

MOTHERFUCKER LIED!

Maybe.

Remember this?

Well it was maybe a bit staged:

“To summarize, the PM went to a place and learned about a thing,” McCollough writes. “During the speech that followed, he excitedly suggested he wanted to talk about the thing he just learned. A reporter was disinterested in playing along, and tried to ask a more relevant question, but Trudeau ignored him and launched into what was clearly a pre-prepared treatise on the thing.”

In an update to that Gawker post the PM’s press secretary denies it was staged. Read the whole thing and make up your own mind.

My mind? INVADE.

 

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