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Chris Selley: Yes, it matters where and how the prime minister vacations

Carney hasn’t spent all that much time here lately. Maybe he should use his private-jet privileges to refamiliarize himself

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The Carneys are living their best vacation lives in Tuscany. And back home, some of us are again debating a prime minister’s vacation choices. Or not so much debating as, mostly, kvetching, in roughly equal parts about the vacation itself and about anyone who would be so gauche and unworldly as to question the vacation. “Lots of Canadians go to Caribbean all-inclusives, right? So why shouldn’t the PM go to Tuscany?”

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Tellingly, that sort of absurd comparison — we’re all prime minister, really; Tuscany isn’t much different than that 2.5-star resort in Punta Cana you saw on the Air Transat package-vacations website — is the only card most “none of our business” people know how to play. “Oh, so you think the PM and his wife should dress in sackcloth, don crowns of thorns, and camp out on East Hastings?”

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