When people compare Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with father Pierre, the son almost never measures up. Perhaps that isn’t fair. After all, the old man won four general elections; established diplomatic relations with China in 1970, well before the United States; made Canada count in international politics; defeated French Quebec separatism; made multiculturalism and bilingualism official; and formed a new constitution for the country.
How can you beat that? To be sure, his strong federalism laid the seeds for the subsequent provincial discontent, if not rebellion, especially with the resource-rich western ones.
