Harry Mount

Trudeau family values

Canada’s new PM is a media darling. You can expect that to change when the bill arrives

issue 12 March 2016
 

 Quebec City

‘I’m worried your gambolling is out of control.’

Canada is about to hit a new high. If the supercute 44-year-old prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has his way, marijuana will soon be legally available. Trudeau himself is no pothead. He last had a joint in 2010 at a family dinner party, with his children safely tucked up in bed at their grandmother’s house. Still, it is a typical policy for the Liberal leader — headline-grabbing, progressive, fashionable. To call Trudeau a press darling is an understatement. The man is a global PR sensation. Only this week, he had himself snapped with two panda cubs — ‘Say hello to Jia Panpan & Jia Yueyue,’ he tweeted — and the world tweeted ‘Awwww’ back. But not everybody thinks the new PM is quite so adorable. It’s no surprise that Trudeau has enjoyed a honeymoon period. His election five months ago was quite a triumph.

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