Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in a bit of hot water recently, but I find these negative sentiments completely irrational. Although, Trudeau’s call to one of the spouses of the six Canadians who died in Burkina Faso seemed like a publicity stunt and came off as insensitive, the rest of the anger doesn’t really make any sense. It’s all a big political game, as those killed were from Quebec — an area that was largely against Canada stopping airstrikes in the Middle East.

Reading about the man that was angry about Trudeau’s phone call and said that none of it would have happened had they not stopped airstrikes, it all seems a little politically motivated. It doesn’t make any sense to blame stopping the airstrikes in the Middle East to the terrorists that attacked the hotel in Burkina Faso — in West Africa.

Conservative Canadians are also getting angry because Trudeau offered sympathy for the job cuts to major newspapers across the country and not to the oil workers out of jobs in Alberta right now.

At a glimpse, that doesn’t seem right, but this argument has completely done away with context dating back to the last 10 years of Canadian economic decisions. Frankly, I feel that the entire country is pretty upset about the right-wing newspapers conglomerating. Newsrooms around the country were shut down to open one office to cover all of Canada. The decision to do so killed a little part of Canadian journalism and freedom of press and gave way for new censorship.

So then looking at the 50,000 oil workers out of jobs in Fort Mc Murray, Alberta - this massive oil industry was introduced during the Conservative rule and was the reason for boasting of how Canada was surviving the financial crisis. This plan saw only short-term gains and the government plugged their ears to those trying to say so. The oil-focused economy gave a very unhealthy economy in the long run and now Canada’s economy is suffering.

Apologies should come from former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, if anyone is supposed to give their sympathies. People are out of jobs and a forest the size of the UK has been almost completely taken out – and for what?

— The reader is a Canadian student based in Abu Dhabi