Justin Trudeau spent the last days of his time as prime minister with his political life flashing before his eyes.
All the big, disruptive events of Trudeau’s nearly decade in power have been churning around him. Donald Trump’s existential threats were chief among them, but there were shades of other crises, too — the resumption of weekly meetings with the premiers, as was normal during the pandemic, and discussions over whether Canada needed to kick in with a COVID-type response to Trump’s tariffs.
