Do Canada’s elites have a mentality of privilege and entitlement?

I think some prominent Canadians might take a lesson from those so-called ‘average Canadians’ and recognize no one is better than anyone else.

Governor General Julie Payette, former finance minister Bill Morneau, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau each have their own cross to bear in terms of bad behaviour, lack of oversight or basic common sense, but there seems to be one strand connecting them: a sense of privilege and entitlement, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 19, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In the 1970s, I followed two comedy groups: Britain’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which is still renowned, and the lesser-known American ensemble, Firesign Theatre. In one of their skits, Firesign offered a satire of American life with a movie preview “Presenting honest st...

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