Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient ocean, writes biographer Stephen...
Trudeau’s election in 2015 was in a sense a restoration of a vision of a bilingual, multicultural, tolerant welfare state, the kind of Nordic country that would be at home in the European Union if it wasn’t for an inconvenient oceansaid on Monday on the snowy steps of his official residence in Ottawa, looking like a man trying not to cry. “Every bone in my body has always told me to fight because I care deeply about Canadians.
While the United Kingdom and the United States divided along ideological and class lines, Canada was dominated by a centrist blob that carefully maintained the balance between regions, religions and language groups, advancing progressive social programmes when that seemed politically advantageous, punctuated by the occasional Conservative interregnums.
After that, he bided his time, worked as a bouncer, snowboard instructor, back-country rafting guide and, eventually, a teacher — living as a carefree playboy — until he eventually decided to buckle down and seek election in Papineau, a gritty working-class immigrant neighbourhood in Montreal, a quartier of shawarma shops, curry houses, mosques, and temples.
He legalised marijuana, reduced child poverty, was notably inclusive toward new Canadians and women, brought in a carbon tax to reduce emissions, worked toward reconciliation with Canada’s long-mistreated Indigenous people. For a while, he was much-loved, but political gravity eventually did its work.
So for the past two years, he has been on borrowed time, and everyone but him seemed to know it. He lost once-safe seats in Toronto and Montreal in byelections, weathered an aborted caucus rebellion, brought in a gimmicky sales-tax holiday and then, suddenly, lost his deputy prime minister Chyrstia Freeland, when he tried to replace her with central bank superstar Mark Carney.
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