all of this has been in plain sight for years. The KielBros ran a program (not sure it still exists) where rich cdn families pay $20K to dig wells & other photo-ready do-goodery. At a toronto recruitment event, they assured us we'd be Africa-ing by day, but living 5-star at night https://twitter.com/HoCStaffer/status/1288566111999537157
at the time (by which I mean 15 minutes ago), none of this was seen as objectionable, because this kind of hypocrisy typifies the photo-op, fly-in approach of toronto limo liberals more generally, including with regard to our own indigenous population. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-why-our-intellectual-class-made-canada-150-the-worst-birthday-ever
I should note that there are many ppl who say the kielburgers have, on balance, done net positive work in places like Africa. It's basically the woke version of those hunting lodges in Africa where some dude from Texas gets to shoot a rhino, but a lot of the $ goes to help locals
The maddening thing is that far more good is being done by Christian groups, whose volunteers live in more modest accomodations, and don't get feted by MTV or Toronto cocktail parties. But of course, they have the wrong view on abortion, so Libs stigmatize them as hate groups
All of which to say, it isn't even primarily the Kielburgers, libs, Morneau & Trudeau clan that's on trial here. It's the whole smug douche-osphere that once was invisible to ordinary canadians, but whose hypocrisies & false pieties are now on open display, thanks to social media
Also, I'm up to EP 4 of Indian Matchmaking and I'm still on the fence about whether prudhyama is gay. No spoilers please
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