Feminist PM has painted himself into a corner

Justin Trudeau’s alleged fall from grace, knocked off that upright uptight pedestal of piety by media regurgitation of a purported groping incident from 18 years ago, is not so much a #MeToo moment as a GOTCHA moment, certainly from predictably hostile quarters making a helluva stink about it.

Thing is, zero tolerance is a bludgeon, heedless of nuance and the often fraught, tangled, abstruse interplay between human beings. Now he’s been hoisted by his own immaculate petard, writes Rosie DiManno. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSIE DIMANNO

July 16, 2018

TORONTO—I like the 2000 version of Justin Trudeau a whole lot better. Anodyne J.T. That Justin, chugging a stein of beer and seemingly wholly enjoying himself at the Kokanee Summit festival—attending the small B.C. town event to accept a charitable donation towards his family’s campaign to b...

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