Stephen Maher and Paul Wells dive into the legacy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Although the next scheduled federal election is almost a year and a half away, two journalists who cover and comment on Canadian politics believe they’ve seen enough to render a verdict on, Stephen Maher chronicles a Prime Minister who arrived in office in November, 2015, filled with ambition and high hopes, and whose first years in government were marked by important achievements.
When the young, charismatic Trudeau and his gender-balanced cabinet first arrived at Rideau Hall, they were supplanting Stephen Harper’s dour Conservatives and charged with launching reforms on multiple fronts. Although Trudeau proclaimed on his first day of office that “government by cabinet is back,” in fact, it wasn’t. Instead, a tight cabal in the Prime Minister’s Office controlled decision-making, which led to endless logjams and delays – the government’s second quality.
The damage from that scandal was incalculable: A Prime Minister dedicated to defending the rights of women and Indigenous people accepted the resignation of two women cabinet ministers, one of them the first Indigenous attorney-general of Canada. Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s closest confidant, resigned as principal secretary. Public confidence in the government was shaken and has never fully recovered.
Maher also explores insightfully Trudeau’s sense of entitlement, made manifest in controversial and politically damaging family vacations to Aga Khan’s private island, Tofino, B.C., and a Jamaican resort. He quotes Robert Asselin, a former University of Ottawa professor who was initially a strong supporter of, and aide within, the government.
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