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Paperback Dictionary: Justin Trudeau

Fuddle Duddle Dept: Trudeau, MP for the Montreal riding of Papineau and the Liberals' immigration critic, objected to the use of the word "barbaric" in Ottawa's new citizenship guide to spell out Canada's stance on honour killings and other violence against women, according to Vancouver Sun. So, I had a look at the Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus. It lists the synonyms for barbaric as cruel, brutal, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, ruthless, vile and inhuman and for someone whose father didn't mince words -remember "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation," "Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent," and "Fuddle-duddle?" -Justin Trudeau didn't exactly act like a chip off the old block this week. "There's nothing that the word 'barbaric' achieves that the words 'absolutely unacceptable' would not have achieved," Trudeau said. As reported in the news.
@t honour killings, citizenship guide