The Trudeau government's approach to human rights and democratic values is difficult to figure out. It seems to feel it appropriate to pay out a person who fought for a terrorist organization against this country and its allies but it happily cozies up to totalitarian states that suppress dissent. And it plays up to identity-focused communities while telling Canadians that there are no mainstream values in this country worth preserving, apparently including the values Canadians fought in wars to protect. Meanwhile, it tells us that foreign governments that deny the same rights that our Charter intends to protect on Canadian soil are merely "evolving," although who knows in what direction. I just don't know if this government has a clue when it presents its cheerily accommodating image to the world while chiding Canadians for actually having values they believe are worth protecting.