Originally published at National Catholic Register
EDITORIAL: Canada’s wildly unpopular Catholic prime minister contradicted the Church and its teachings at every turn.
When it comes to being faithfully Catholic in the public square, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accomplished a deeply deplorable distinction: His record in office is so bad that it manages to make President Joe Biden look good in comparison.
Indeed, as Trudeau prepares to leave office due to his unpopularity with Canadian voters, it’s a sad irony that this nominally Catholic politician was quite possibly the most anti-Catholic prime minister in his nation’s history.
Consider first his appalling misconduct with respect to the libelous “mass graves” residential-school narrative that has deeply and unjustly tarred the Church’s reputation in Canada. When this controversy erupted in 2021 — triggered by unfounded claims of unmarked “mass graves” supposedly located alongside some of Canada’s no-longer operational, government-mandated residential schools for Indigenous children — Trudeau knew full well there was no credible foundation for the claims being circulated that Catholic priests, religious and laypeople working in the schools had covered up the deaths of numerous students.
Trudeau was also fully aware that the only reason there wasn’t a comprehensive accounting of the unmarked burial sites
