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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like Justin has hit the ground running. Only two days after the election and Canadian jets
out of Syria and now cancellation of the F35 Lockheed cash cow
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-trudeau-scrap-f35-halifax-1.3235791
And he hasn't even been sworn in yet and formally named the Defense Minister
enid602
(8,614 posts)If only the oligarchs would let him do away with tar sands/dirty oil/Keystone.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Pierre Trudeau one of the greatest Canadian PM's. I expect Justin to follow in many of his footsteps.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Plus Justin is drawing on some very experienced MPs and political advisors from his dad's era/
roamer65
(36,745 posts)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)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)Will be interesting if he distances Canada from the US in policy.
I think he should.