Justin Trudeau: Low Expectations, High Relief
The Monday night election defeat of Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister of Canada, and the triumph of his most hated rival, the Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, gave many Canadians that rush of feeling they so rarely enjoy: “It’s a girl.” “The lab says it’s benign.” “Your long national nightmare is over.”
But after what was seen here as a painfully protracted 11-week campaign, we are more relieved than triumphant. (It’s a different high than Americans might have after an election: How do you tolerate an almost permanent level of high-cortisol stress?)
It’s not that Canada has the same impossibly high expectations of Mr.… Seguir leyendo »