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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by serge2k on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:36PM (#11834022)
Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name?

2nd youngest PM ever, and the youngest is Joe Clark.

Still rather have Trudeau than harper, I just dislike electing people based on legacy.

Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by na85 on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:59PM (#11834329)
>Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name?

Yeah I do. You've got a young, good-looking, charismatic leader with what look like progressive policies on things like drugs and other social issues who occasionally slips up with the etiquette like calling an MP a piece of shit on the floor of the Commons. It makes him look like a real guy, and less like a standard shitty politician, which is what the electorate are sick of. He's also a relative newcomer and time spent out of the limelight of either the PMO or the Official Opposition means he looks like a fresh change.

That's exactly the opposite of Harper and Mulcair, the former of whom comes off as stodgy, out-of-touch and kind of an asshole, and the latter of whom comes off as one of the most fake, manufactured politicians of the modern age.

I know which one I'd bet on every time.

Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by serge2k on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:22PM (#11834608)
Would he even be liberal leader?
Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by ishbits on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:53PM (#11834094)
Name? Maybe. But his hair and apparent good looks got a lot of votes as wel - sadly.