Trudeau the populist?

As former U.S. president Lyndon Johnson once said, 'You have to be a demagogue on a lot of little things if you want to be around to have your way on the big things.'

Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a politician who has branded himself as something of an anti-populist, who’ll only push rational 'evidence-based' policies, will play the populist card if it suits his interests, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

September 28, 2023

OAKVILLE, ONT.—If there’s one thing journalists, pundits, and academics love to disparage, it’s populism, which they charge is nothing but a low-brow demagogic tactic, designed to pander to our baser instincts.

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