In conversation with journalist Don Newman, he made a cringeworthy comment in which he accused the Conservative government of “whip (ing) out our CF-18s (to) show … how big they are.”
It was a puerile (i.e., childish) statement. Coming as it did from the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada made it all the more unsettling. National Post columnist Rex Murphy called it the sign of “an unserious mind.”
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