Trudeau Celebrates Canola Deal By Tweeting What Appears To Be Mustard — Does It Matter?

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It’s probably an honest mistake, but there’s some irony in having the Prime Minister of Canada — the home of canola — send out a tweet celebrating good news about canola with what appears to be a photo of mustard.

95 percent of Canadians — including the person in the PMO who looks after Justin Trudeau’s Twitter account — probably see yellow flowers and assume it’s canola. A quick Google image search shows the picture tweeted by Justin Trudeau on Thursday can be found on multiple stock photo websites, wrongly labeled as ‘hard-working farmer in canola’.

But what about the 43,000-some Canadians who grow the crop? Trudeau was announcing good news for them, but does an error like this takes some of the shine off his message?

On one hand, it’s just a tweet, probably posted by a staffer, and there’s no real damage done. You can’t expect everyone to be able to tell the difference between canola and mustard.

On the other hand, you might say it’s little details like this that make Trudeau appear insincere and shallow — a sign of how disconnected the leader of the country is with agriculture (and ironically, at a time when he’s sharing good news for Canadian canola…)

If nothing else, it’s worth a chuckle. What do you think? Does it matter?

Update: The tweet was removed over the weekend. Here’s a screenshot taken on Friday afternoon:

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Related: Down-To-The-Wire Agreement Ensures Canola Exports to China Into 2020

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