TRUDEAU'S GAFFES EPOSIDE 4

Trudeau blitzed with wrong pot numbers

In August 2013, Trudeau was quoted as saying that Canada's current marijuana laws "left 475,000 people with criminal records since the Conservatives took office in 2006."

Statistics Canada reports the number of all criminal incidents reported by police for possession, production, trafficking and/or distribution of marijuana at just under 480,000 since 2006. But a reported incident does not mean an arrest has been made, a charge laid or a conviction earned.

You'd think Trudeau would get the details of his signature policy right...

Trudeau's press aide initially described the mistake as a "slip of the tongue," but Trudeau repeated the same false statistics the next day.

READ: Trudeau sticks to pot possession arrest stats

Minister Nicholson welcomes the final delivery of the Canadian Armed Forces' CH-147F Chinook - Canada News Centre

Minister Nicholson welcomes the final delivery of the Canadian Armed Forces' CH-147F Chinook - Canada News Centre

TRUDEAU'S GAFFES EPOSIDE 3

From Sun News

When asked a tough question by the CBC, he thought it was Sun News

The CBC once actually asked Trudeau a real question. When the CBC asked if Canada should negotiate with the Taliban, not only were we surprised, but Trudeau was too. So much so, that Trudeau mistook the CBC reporter for Sun News.

 

TRUDEAU'S GAFFES EPOSIDE 2

Confused and conflicting statements on gun registry

You would hope that a wanna-be prime minister has clear thoughts on an issue as significant as the gun registry, but that might be asking too much of Justin Trudeau.

First, Trudeau said he always supported the gun registry. Then he said it would be too "divisive" to re-introduce it. Followed quickly by a statement supporting Quebec's efforts to bring it back in that province. He finally said the gun registry was an example of failed public policy.

READ: Trudeau targeted over gun registry flip-flop

"I voted to keep the firearms registry a few months ago and if we had a vote tomorrow I would vote once again to keep the long-gun registry. However, the definition of a failed public policy is the fact that the long-gun registry is no more. . . . The fact is, because it was so deeply divisive for far too many people, it no longer exists." - Toronto Star, December 3, 2012

Is anyone able to follow Trudeau's logic on this?

READ: Justin Trudeau's scattershot approach to the gun registry