Trudeau lacked the courage to go to the funeral of the Communist dictator that his father so deeply admired and I think, envied.  I also question his authority to direct the G/C (the Queen's representative) to attend the funeral.  I am not sufficiently familiar with the protocol of who answers to whom,  but it seems to me that if the PM must ask permission of the Queen's Representative to form a government in the first place, it is hardly that PM's position to order the same Representative of the Crown to perform such duties.  I should like to the Governor General tell the lad to send one of his own cabinet, inasmuch as He, is not a political lapdog of the ruling Party.