Our new Prime Minister

Our newly-minted PM might have taken the ISIS attack on Paris as a solid opportunity to back out of some less than brilliant election promises he made without being held accountable or being seen as back-pedalling.

He did not. Instead, he spent his opening rounds at the international conference posing for selfies and reaffirming his own lack of good judgement.

More mature leaders all pledged support for the French cause in the face of mindless terror, but Trudeau stuck to his guns. He reaffirmed his off-the cuff decision to withdraw air support against ISIS and import large numbers of migrants from Syria in a hurry, ignoring the chance that there might also be lunatic Fringe Islamic infiltrators among them.

The withdrawal of Canada's fighter jets gives ISIS the opportunity to brag openly that the Paris attack has succeeded in putting a wedge into the solidarity of the forces aligned against them.

It's easy to speculate that these actions accurately represent the head space of the electorate that rocketed Trudeau to power in Canada. Had he shown some ability to think on his feet, our newly minted Prime Minister's actions would have been unrepresentative of the mentality of the people who cast their ballot for a rock star instead of an experienced leader.