# How's Trudeau doing, Canada?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 13, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019 "2016-02-13T13:56:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019/603 "2025-01-10T16:04:13Z")

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> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> Coyne had a harsh article on Trudeau. He did okay on Covid and well with first USMCA. But lots of hypocrisy, naïveté and some scandal.

Laid out like this, it really does seem like a nearly completely calamitous tenure in 24 Sussex. I’m not a fan of Trudeau (my dad loathed him with a spittle-flecked rage of a thousand suns, but he felt that way about P.E.T. as well, and I suspect he’s got some Pavlovian reaction to the surname at this point), but I preferred him to Harper back in 2015, without a doubt. As he started leaning headlong into every scandal he could find (SNC was particularly bad), my opinion of his political acumen, not to mention intelligence, began slipping rapidly. I can’t bring myself to ever vote CPC, especially with tRump-lite leading the party as he is now, but Trudeau at the helm of the Grits was really pushing me to tap out of voting altogether. I’m glad he’s going, and I hope the next five years of culture wars, environmental backsliding and TFG-fellating by the Cons don’t turn us into a colder and funny-accented mirror to the States.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019/604 "2025-01-11T01:23:33Z")

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> [@veryfrank](#):
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> … I preferred him to Harper back in 2015, without a doubt. As he started leaning headlong into every scandal he could find (SNC was particularly bad), my opinion of his political acumen, not to mention intelligence, began slipping rapidly.

The funny thing about Trudeau is that he turned out to be what Harper was rightly accused of being; insular, secretive, vengeful, and interested only in being in power.

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**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-trudeau-doing-canada/746019/605 "2025-01-11T05:52:43Z")

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> [@veryfrank](#):
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> Laid out like this, it really does seem like a nearly completely calamitous tenure in 24 Sussex.

Oddly enough, I don’t think he ever did actually live at 24 Sussex while he was PM. He did live there as a kid of course.

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