Drew Fagan

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his bid for re-election on Wednesday. He is globally prominent, but his popularity has ebbed in Canada. Credit Dave Chan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Just as American presidents tend to get re-elected, Canadian prime ministers almost never get turned out by voters after their first terms. The last time it happened to a leader with a majority government behind him was during the Great Depression.

But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who officially announced his campaign for re-election on Wednesday, is well aware of a time when it almost happened. His father, Pierre Trudeau, went to bed on election night in 1972 fearing he’d lost. Trudeau père had swept to power four years earlier on a wave of Kennedyesque popularity — “like a stone through a stained-glass window,” in the words of one writer.…  Seguir leyendo »