Beware the Ides of March

Re: PM’S statement light on contrition, Matt Gurney, March 8

Given Justin Trudeau’s penchant for drama, one would have expected him to lay his hand on his heart and express a teary-eyed “mea culpa mea maxima culpa” in order to explain away the whole Snc-lavalin fiasco. At the very least to show some remorse and accept the responsibility for letting this matter get out of control. Au contraire! Once again, he deflects the blame onto others with his famous catch-all phrase of “people experience things differently.”

My only suggestion to the prime minister is to look around the Liberal caucus and remember Shakespeare’s “Beware the Ides of March”... Ed Lacelle, Buckingham, Que. As Justin Trudeau continues his stark public dissembling, he once again demonstrates the difference between merely signalling virtue and living with it. Perhaps he might go for a walk in the snow and reflect on Winston Churchill’s prescient warning, “the dignity of a Prime Minister, like a lady’s virtue, is not susceptible of partial diminution.” David Lovatt, Redwood Meadows, Alta. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a master at apologizing for the adjudged historical sins of past governments but shows no willingness or capacity to say he is sorry for his own government’s political missteps. This is unsurprising given his propen- sity to lecture others and not learn from them. Anne Elizabeth Souris, Vancouver