Braid: Justin Trudeau's dazzling life and the wreckage he left behind

“He haunts us still.” Those were the famous first words in a 1990 biography of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

His son, Justin? He annoys us still. The modern Trudeau is too frivolous for haunting.

Braid: Justin Trudeau's dazzling life and the wreckage he left behind Back to video

The book by Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson was often elegiac in tone. Whatever one thought of Pierre Trudeau, he commanded respect.

Justin has been out of politics for just over a year, since Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership on March 15, 2025.

Trudeau’s post-politics life is exactly what could have been expected, a round of flashy celebrity appearances with a pop star paramour, Katy Perry.

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