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It isn't so much the content of what he actually said in response to the question -- I'm sure it did not go un-noticed by everyone that the blurb he blurted out after that 22 second dead air was absolutely meaningless. Simply put, there was no content to it. Half the time when reporters ask questions -- and for that matter, the same thing happens during job interviews as well -- it isn't so much the reply that matters. Instead, it is the reaction or the way the question was approached in response that sheds more light on the subject.
To a certain extent, I sympathize with how JT was put under the spotlight -- the reply needed to be given based on the difficult circumstances that Canada faces. On the other hand, this is practically what politicians and government officials are paid to do -- they are asked the difficult questions where they need to immediately provide an appropriate reply. The best politicians will give you a fantastic response, sometimes ones that lead back to the same rhetoric that they have always been rooting for -- Obama did that on a regular basis, and I'd imagine (Bill) Clinton being able to come up with that sort of thing too. Seasoned career politicians will give you a solid response. There may not be much content to it, and you'd recognize it as a the sort of reply that leads you around in circles, but the reply would be near immediate. Nobody except someone who is thoroughly incompetent would just pause there for 22 seconds' worth of dead air.
JT is not cut out to be a political leader. And he is most certainly unqualified to be our Canadian Prime Minister.
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