On January 20 2025 13:15 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
not at all, IMO, the greatest Canadian PM in its history beat up his wife for decades. Pierre Trudeau was awesome. He also beat his wife. meh. His son turned out pretty good though. He'd make a fine back bench MP.
Canadians knew Trudeau beat Maggie. They still voted for him. again, and again, and again.
Pierre Trudeau shrugged off statements that the Canadian army threatened members of the CBC and Canadian press. He turned it into a joke. That day Trudeau-mania was born.
not at all, IMO, the greatest Canadian PM in its history beat up his wife for decades. Pierre Trudeau was awesome. He also beat his wife. meh. His son turned out pretty good though. He'd make a fine back bench MP.
Canadians knew Trudeau beat Maggie. They still voted for him. again, and again, and again.
Pierre Trudeau shrugged off statements that the Canadian army threatened members of the CBC and Canadian press. He turned it into a joke. That day Trudeau-mania was born.
Pierre Trudeau for all his abilities as a politician never really had to contend with a historic ally and neighbour outright not giving a shit about that under certain leadership.
See also, many European countries.
Your posts here make zero sense, you seem to admire the world’s superpower throwing its weight around when they were previous reticent to in certain domains.
It’s part ‘might is right’, which in isolation is how it goes. Except you’re blaming the much weaker partner for the actions of their neighbour: