Trudeau, Canada’s Sun King?

Justin Trudeau might represent Canada, but he’s not the personification of Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured July 25, 2017, on Parliament Hill. Whenever a leader claims to speak for everyone in his country, to my mind it reveals a regal-style hubris, that’s ill-suited for a democracy, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

July 31, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Given that we’re smack dab in the middle of summer and given that everyone is consequently in a vacation mindset right now, I thought it’d be a good time to avoid usual political commentary so that I could instead draw a comparison between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a 17t...

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