Justin Trinto, prime minister until 2025 and possibly beyond, is running a government that excels in being predictably inconsistent, apparently delusional, occasionally fraudulent and overly obsessed with the latest gloss.
Do not you think;  Let me count the ways that lead to Tuesday’s last big delusion.
For inconsistency, consider the announced purchase of the F-35 fighter jet this week.  It comes a dozen years after Canada last announced it was buying them, before being cut short by Trudeau’s promise to never buy the jet.
The timing of this $ 19 billion flip-flop, for which cabinet ministers blamed their own bureaucrats, was obvious.
The government provided the F-35s to cover its budget on April 7 to spend large sums on jets to boost its weak military investment at a time when the rest of NATO is being armed.
Remaining on the military issue, there is a gross inconsistency in Trinto committing to more lethal weapons to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion, which most Canadians rightly support.
However, it ignores the fact that Canada’s largest arms export is to Saudi Arabia, which is conducting a rapidly “special military operation” similar to Putin in Yemen, using Canadian armored vehicles, which according to a United Nations report perpetuation ”of war.
Then there are the glamorous political lures that almost always hook Trinto.
Next month, Global Citizen is hosting a glamorous event with stars to help Ukraine.  Given the way he is already promoting it on his office website, you just KNOW that the prime minister will have coverage from the front of the global web scene.
Meanwhile, young girls are again deprived of school in Afghanistan, while hunger prevails.  This is in a country where nearly 160 Canadians have died defending their human rights.  So far, crickets on the prime minister’s social media accounts.
And finally, the Prime Minister has an insidious side.
On Wednesday, Trinto will pay a late visit to Williams Lake First Nation, where 93 burial sites associated with a former residential school were found.
This is just below the flight path he took for a surfing escape on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation last fall.
However, this visit comes the day after a large fundraiser for the Liberals in Vancouver, which allows the government aircraft to carry the prime minister and cabinet ministers to the taxpayers’ card for an overnight getaway, which, I must emphasize, does not makes him the first prime minister to overlap in public office with partisan activities.
But all of the above is a long way to go to reach the biggest creep of the week, the big 270-page plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the key fight against climate change.
You can only hope that these ambitious goals can be achieved because they are vital to the future of our planet.
But this is far from a specific plan.  It’s almost not a plan.  More like a wish list sprinkled with pixie powder and REM sleep levels for dreams.
Think of the biggest culprit, the oil sector, where emissions have risen by a staggering 137 percent since 2005, even when coal-fired power plants have been fueled.
Federal authorities say the new target should suddenly see emissions fall by 42 percent in just eight years, apparently forgetting their promise to boost Canada’s oil and gas exports to Europe to help reduce its dependence on Russian energy.
Asked how Canada’s oil could boost production to help Europe and meet its dramatically reduced domestic emissions target, Natural Resources Secretary Jonathan Wilkinson said people were “oversimplifying these issues”.
Canada, he said, must “walk and chew gum at the same time”, helping to meet Europe’s post-Russian energy needs while remaining on a path of deep cuts in domestic emissions.  Oh my god.  Look who’s simplifying now?
The government also insists that 60 percent of new car purchases should be electric in just eight years, in a sales market where EVs now account for just 5 percent of sales.  How?  There is no idea other than something called a “sales order” that is under development.
The conclusion, according to Elizabeth May of the Green Party, is that only five pages of graphs across the cover of a document are essential because they meet the objectives with some clear hints of promising action.
Of course, it’s desperate because none of this will happen.
We have not achieved a goal of reducing emissions in our history and there is every chance that the next prime minister will destroy this plan in any case.
But it fits in with Trinto’s consistently inconsistent political behavior.  He reaches the stars for glory that is reflected in himself without having his feet grounded in reality.
This is the essence.