# Canadian 'dopers, how serious is all this about Justin Trudeau?

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**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-how-serious-is-all-this-about-justin-trudeau/915868 "2020-07-20T20:17:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-how-serious-is-all-this-about-justin-trudeau/915868/82 "2020-08-10T02:24:06Z")

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My opinion of Justin Trudeau hasn’t changed far from 3 years ago:

> [@How's Trudeau doing, Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019/98):
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> Trudeau isn’t a leader, but an entitled name/smile. Nonetheless most Canadians are (and will continue to be) satisfied with his tepid governance. This will change when/if the Tories get a well respected leader and the Libs get bogged down in scandal.

> [@How's Trudeau doing, Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019/101):
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> Trudeau, in particular, is an PM that is bred and image sculpted into an acceptable left-wing devil-may-care Pierre jr, saviour of Canada. He’s not half the free-spirited, intellectual, and political batsman as his father. He’s a smile in a coat. And, frankly, most Canadians are satisfied with that (for now).

Harsh, but while his current experience makes him more-than-qualified to be PM, Trudeau just isn’t particularly intellectually ambitious. This is an armchair amateur psychoanalysis of the guy but I feel his intellectual indolence exhibits itself especially through lackluster political goals, no over-arcing policy direction (outside of “have me as PM”), and JT’s willingness to just shut-up and follow the important health/economic/political directions of his educated staff during this global pandemic.

Thank God for that last point too. Can you imagine if we had an unaware, conceited, blind, arrogant, over-privileged Jared Kushner as PM? Justin Trudeau, at least, shows some amount of self-awareness when he’s in-over his head.

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