I agree with you 100%, but unfortunately, I think it is unrealistic to believe any government will make decisions based only on common sense and what is best for the citizens of the country. 

    Self interest of the party and of the leader and the leader's ego will always be part of the equation. My statement above was just my musing of how you could get out of this mess with little or no loss of face and maybe even come out ahead.

    Instead Trudeau seems to have double down on his mistake.

    I'm really starting to feel that many politicians on the Left are looking at Angela Merkel's Person of the Year spread in Time, whispers of Nobel prizes, and international accolades and they want some global lovin', too. Easiest way to do this. Become a borderless society, and don't worry about society's inevitable collapse.

As the good book says, "All is Vanity"