Justin Trudeau might be part of the global populist wave

Even though he's different from right-wing populist leaders, Trudeau in last year's election represented a change from the status quo Conservatives.

There's a case to be made for calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a populist, writes Angelo Perischilli.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

December 12, 2016

Is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a populist? I asked this question to a friend last week, the day Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi was forced to resign. I will come back to it, but first let me elaborate on the term "populism," lately the most-used word in any poli...

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