Pardon me if I do not share the editorial board's amusement at Trudeau 2.0's arrogant, stubborn, authoritarian and excruciatingly embarrassing performance in the House last Wednesday.

In conjunction with attempts to change the electoral system to ensure  perpetual power for the Liberals (preferential balloting),  to muzzle parliamentary debate (motion 6) and to marginalize parliament (making it a four day a week with over a dozen weeks off institution and freeing the PM to get away with just 45 minutes a week in the chambre), the PM's outright and brazen refusal to provide any relevant, substantive answers to opposition questions that reached its pinnacle last week. is infuriating and worrisome rather than amusing to me.

It is the kind of thing that is usually more associated with regimes like the ones in Venezuela, Zimbabwe,  North Korea  and with two of Trudeau's personal favourites China and Cuba than with Canada.

But it is not funny.