After defying the monetarist zeitgeist for two years with nationalisations and improved welfare benefits, he was finally obliged by market pressure on the franc to adjust to the liberal winds from across the Channel and the Atlantic.
The People's Bank of China described the move as a "one-off" and presented its decision as part of the five-year plan to allow more liberal winds to blow in China's markets.
But the 21-day "prayer offensive" for an almighty purging of court "liberals" (sic) is winding down with the court intact and on a well-earned vacation.
He says he was there meeting with senior government officials in "some client context," but that the Trudeau Liberals got wind of it and put him on full partisan blast.
Once liberals caught wind of it their spoofs like "I'm gay, change my mind" only kicked up more fuel for conservative folks to promote things like, "if she breathe she a thot, change my mind" and "Kwanza isn't real, change my mind".
To liberal opinion, opposing wind farm development is the moral equivalent of denying global warming or voting Ukip.
Liberals in Massachusetts think wind power's all right until a wind farm is proposed for Nantucket Sound.
Certainly, if students wanted to wind their liberal-minded parents up to the degree that insulting Winston Churchill once worked on their grandparents, they could do no better than sneer at Germaine Greer, or no-platform Julie Bindel, Mona Eltahawy, or Maryam Namazie, or turn their noses up at Peter Tatchell, who did not even, it turns out, bomb Dresden.
The Earl of Glasgow, a Liberal Democrat peer, has 14 wind turbines on his Kelburn estate, so could earn upwards of £300,000 a year.
It's true that 9/11 gave the fear factor a second wind: Karl Rove accusing liberals of being soft on terrorism sounded just like Spiro Agnew accusing liberals of being soft on crime.
