What America’s lust for Trudeau says about Canada

America’s gushing over our next prime minister is a bit surreal from a Canadian perspective.


Justin Trudeau is a certifiable babe, according to the rest of the world. In Canada, we've been encouraged to see his good looks as negative traits.

Not since Rob Ford smoked crack and made the surprising declaration that he had “more than enough to eat at home” did the United States honour us with their undivided attention.

Americans loved to talk about Ford, the famously rubicund right winger, because in addition to the law, he defied every Canadian nicety known to man. He was a walking ad for finishing school.
But today, our nation is at the forefront of America’s minds — or more accurately, its loins — for a very different reason. In case you hadn’t noticed, Justin Trudeau, our next prime minister, is a charismatic 43-year-old (a toddler in politician years) and judging from the hordes of swooning Americans on social media, he is also a certifiable babe.
In the words of one of a zillion non-Canadians expounding on the PM’s hotness on Twitter: “Canada’s new Prime Minister is a Smoking-Hot Syrupy Fox.” That sounds like something a BBQ joint might serve if it specialized in road kill, but it’s apparently a synonym for Justin Trudeau.

It appears the outside world isn’t merely smitten with the PM: it is straight up hot and bothered — to the point of lechery. The perverted maple syrup puns are never ending: on Tuesday, Entertainment Online, an American celebrity news site, referred to the PM as a “beautiful sticky sweet specimen.” Even Jezebel, the snarky feminist website that gets its rocks off castigating the politically incorrect, took a break from the scolding game to declare Trudeau, “non-controversially f---able” on account of his women friendly policies.

As I write this, Trudeau is leading a hotness poll on Buzzfeed (“Which of These World Leaders Gives You the Most Thirst?”) by a wide margin, beating out the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
This libidinous Trudeaumania is a bit surreal from a Canadian perspective because for the duration of the election, we were encouraged by Stephen Harper to see the Liberal leader’s luscious locks and generous smile as negative traits (how could somebody so cute possibly be capable of running a country?) Trudeau even sported a short haircut throughout the campaign, a sign of his renewed commitment to staid Canadian political life.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/10/22/what-americas-lust-for-trudeau-says-about-canada-teitel.html

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lol It's not just his good looks that captivates we Americans (lol) but I think part of the clamor is based on an immense sense of relief that Canada, long looked on as our more reasonable and polite neighbor to the north, has escaped the darkness that was the decade long conservative Harper government. Just knowing that Canada is restoring its national soul seems comforting to us down here, eh? lol