It’s difficult to recall, watching a defeated man finally yield to his fate outside Rideau Cottage this week, just how fervently Canadians fell for Justin Trudeau more than a decade ago. It was like Trudeaumania redux: he’d get stopped for selfies on the street, make headline news for appearing shirtless in public, and would absolutely electrify crowds of thousands of fawning students. Indeed, first-time voters turned out in record numbers to help deliver the Trudeau Liberals their first and only majority, which the eventual Prime Minister celebrated the day after the election with selfies with supporters in the Montreal Metro.
Can class, economic status or educational divide be the reason some of us knew Trudeau was a fraud from the get go while many of our “betters” fell hook line and sinker for the Little Prince’s BS?
