Susan Delacourt: Justin Trudeau tells us why he is disliked, what keeps him awake and who Pierre Poilievre is ‘preying on’
Justin Trudeau is very aware of just how much he’s become a lightning rod for anger in Canada.
Canada has been through some very bumpy changes since Trudeau came to power in 2015. Trudeau’s critics, the fierce and even the not-so-fierce, do in fact lay some of that at his feet.
I’ve been doing these interviews with Trudeau for a good decade or more now — not every year, but well before he became Liberal leader in 2013 and then prime minister a couple of years later. I remind him there was a time when he saw himself as a disrupter of politics as usual. It was even how he attempted to find common cause with Donald Trump in the early days of that raucous period in Canada-U.S. relations.
It all turns, he explains, around the purpose of disruption. “Is it about making sure more people can succeed … or is it saying, ‘I’m going to disrupt things by tearing everything down and rebuilding it from scratch in some way that I haven’t even really thought about yet?’ Which was a little more the Poilievre model or even the Trump model.”
Trudeau isn’t getting drawn into speculation about whether he can really avoid an election that long.
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