I’m jealous of Teflon Trudeau

At a time when the world seems pissed off at disconnected elites, Trudeau can go to a private retreat for billionaires, and nary a whimper.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, glad-hand visitors to Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

July 13, 2016

OTTAWA—David Cameron, Barack Obama, and other world leaders must sometimes wish they were Justin Trudeau. At this point in his political career, our prime minister is coated in Teflon. Weeks after the Brexit vote, months after Donald Trump's poison preaching, and at a time when the world just see...

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