His deputy PM has quit, his government faces a vote of no confidence and critics want him to take the same “walk in the snow” his father did four decades ago.
Justin Trudeau’s career is the stuff of 21st-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by President-elect Donald Trump and his acolytes.And he spent the next decade building a brand around being a feminist, an environmentalist, a refugee and Indigenous rights advocate, pursuing the same message of change and hope as Barack Obama.
He will soon either call elections that he’ll most likely lose, or he’ll step down as leader of his party and as prime minister and let a different leader take the Liberals to the ballot box next year.In Stephen Maher’s 2024 biography of Trudeau, the author recalls separate occasions in which Trudeau’s family members called him a “prince”.
The elder Trudeau had swept Canada off its feet in the late 1960s, in what came to be called “Trudeau-mania”. Eventually, voters soured on him too, though he stayed in power for 16 years, and his legacy helped launch his son’s career. “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” Trudeau posted on the social platform X, then known as Twitter. “Diversity is our strength.”
And then came the pandemic. Critics describe Trudeau’s push for restrictive measures as a key reason for the animus against him.
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