After not being the balle balle of the G20 ball for reasons that have less to do with his boyish good looks making other leaders feel jealous, the Canadian PM had to be the last guest to leave the party – all because his Maple Leaf One developed a snag.
Conspiracy theorists this side of the Saskatchewan River are already talking about MEA-friendly ninjas nixing the PM’s plane in the dead of night, thereby forcing him and his son Xavier to stay on an extra day-and-a-half in India.
Just when it was about to look like GoI, to add jet fuel to injury, was going to offer the Trudeaus honorary Indian citizenship, the Canadian Air Force‘s CC-150 Polaris that was earlier mysteriously diverted to London – on, er, 9/11 – finally came to Uber the PM and his entourage up.
One would expect Trudeau, poor chap, to be happy to be back in Ottawa. On the bright side is the fact that young Indian students will still be thronging to leave India in droves to go to Canada, regardless of tensions between their home country and destination country. On India’s part, lest it be thought otherwise, the Canadian PM remains a valued member of vasudhaiva kutumbakam.
