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Looks like Justin has hit the ground running. Only two days after the election and Canadian jets (Original Post) Monk06 Oct 2015 OP
too bad enid602 Oct 2015 #1
We will see a lot of his dad in this man. roamer65 Oct 2015 #2
I have to agree the energy and work ethic is definitely there and the sense of humor Monk06 Oct 2015 #3
The one thing I think Justin differs from his dad on is empathy. roamer65 Oct 2015 #4
Well Pierre made his bones in the Quebec labour movement where he was battling Duplessis Monk06 Oct 2015 #5
My Canadian friends are pleased! artislife Oct 2015 #6

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
2. We will see a lot of his dad in this man.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 11:25 PM
Oct 2015

Pierre Trudeau one of the greatest Canadian PM's. I expect Justin to follow in many of his footsteps.

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
3. I have to agree the energy and work ethic is definitely there and the sense of humor
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 11:48 PM
Oct 2015

Plus Justin is drawing on some very experienced MPs and political advisors from his dad's era/

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
4. The one thing I think Justin differs from his dad on is empathy.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 11:55 PM
Oct 2015

His dad was a good and honest man, but could be cold and calculated, bordering on harsh at times. Justin seems to have picked up an empathetic streak along his way, I think probably from his mother.

I have listened to him speak and I think he genuinely cares about people. Harpo didn't give a rat's rear end about anyone other than his rich groupies.

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
5. Well Pierre made his bones in the Quebec labour movement where he was battling Duplessis
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:33 AM
Oct 2015

who was the Quebec premier and the political pawn of the Catholic Church mafia that imprisoned 20,000 orphans under false accusations of mental illness and on the other hand battling the Hal Banks ILSU mafia
Pierre and Cretien were lucky to have escaped assassination in the late fifties before either of them were national figures

That upbringing tends to make you a little flinty.

Plus Trudeau was intolerant of fools and there were a lot of fools in Canadian politics in the early and mid sixties and seventies

Stanfield was the leader of the Conservatives back then/ His family owned underwear manufacturing sweatshops in Nova Scotia. He was an idiot even according to the low standard of idiocy

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
6. My Canadian friends are pleased!
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:37 AM
Oct 2015

Will be interesting if he distances Canada from the US in policy.

I think he should.

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