Justin Trudeau's turn to face the weight of expectations
Like Obama, Trudeau has been promising the kind of ineffable change that is so hard to deliver
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Oct 20, 2015
Stephen Harper is a goner, and humiliated, too, to the near-erotic ecstasy of Canada's chattering classes, who loathed him with such intensity it's hard to think of a comparison in modern politics.
Stephen Harper is a goner, and humiliated, too, to the near-erotic ecstasy of Canada's chattering classes, who loathed him with such intensity it's hard to think of a comparison in modern politics.
Well, maybe Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's Darth Vader.
Suddenly, in Justin Trudeau we have a prime minister-designate who's banging on about hope and trust and inclusiveness and believing in yourself and being better and listening to everyone and diversity and all sorts of other happy thoughts. He even threw in tolerance for hijabs.
