How does one defend the Prime Minister after he brutally attacked Ruth Ellen Brosseau? A sharp, hard, cruel elbow to the chest, followed up by forcing her to relive the moment over and over again as he constantly referred to it in his frequent apologizes. Such pathos, such drama, such melodrama! Or rather what a load of … The problem with this narrative is this; the NDP members were blocking the conservative whip. Justine Trudeau came over to escort the whip to the speaker’s chair, rescuing him from a mob of NDP obstructionists. Wherein the jostling; Ruth Ellen Brosseau was struck in the chest. Lightly, (An NDP member pushed the whip, who in turn bounced off Trudeau, which then pushed Trudeau’s elbow that hit Brosseau) but she immediately took the dive for all the screen actor credits she could get, all the while acting as if she had been assaulted and injured. Thomas Mulcair the disgraced NDP leader immediately took up the outrage as if this had been a deliberate, vicious assault upon her being. As if this was the greatest crime of the century, as if…  And here in lies the whole point. What Mulcair and Brosseau fail to grasp is this; Canadians are not stupid. We can see the video, we can see the faux outrage and we can see the disingenuous hyperbole from the NDP on this issue. There is a reason why they, the NDP voted Mulcair out of his job as head of the party; this very disingenuous behavior on his part. Contrast that with his predecessor, Jack Layton. Like him or hate him, he was a genuine person in the way he talked, acted and behaved. Jack was the real deal, not some ready to scream outrage at any issue, any issue at all, no matter how small they may be as Mulcair clearly is ready to do, showing that  this type of “woe’s me” crying is all the voters could see from him. Thus, they punished the NDP in the last election by voting for the Liberals and remove most of the NDP Party’s historic gains under Jack Layton to another genuine person, Justine Trudeau. This is what drives this faux outrage by the former head of the NDP. The simple fact that Canadians like Justine Trudeau. They like what they see and what they have seen so far. The poll numbers don’t lie either. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-quarterly-polls-mar2016-1.3469716) If an election was held now, he might get a super majority on top of the majority he already had. So Thomas, scream all you want. It has worked out so well for you this far. Ruth, you need to watch more soccer to see how the professions fake a dive. You are not very good at it.