It’s been 10 years since Justin Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
That not only makes him one of today’s longest-serving party leaders in the country, it also puts him on a short list of historic Liberal leaders: only Lester Pearson, Jean Chrétien, Pierre Trudeau, Mackenzie King and Wilfrid Laurier have held the job longer than Justin Trudeau has.
He says he will lead the Liberals into the next election, but a decade is already more than enough time to leave a mark. To discuss Trudeau’s legacy to date, I’m joined this week by the CBC’s Aaron Wherry, who wrote a book on the first years of Trudeau’s time in office, and Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star.
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Hey, I don't think that's fair. And the reason I asked both Aaron and Susan is that they are probably among the most knowledgeable journalists in Canada about the inner workings of the Liberals. They have both spent a lot of time interviewing Trudeau and so have insights about him that others do not.
Yea, I stopped listening after a while. It’s one thing to like Trudeau, it’s another to give him a tonguebath.
I'm sorry you feel that way, the point of this episode was to look at Trudeau's leadership of the party and how that has shifted over the last 10 years, rather than a critical assessment of his time as PM. I think it's interesting to get into how the party's organization, strategy, electoral coalition looks today vs. pre-2013.