One Trudeau was enough I would say.
methinks | 04.07.06 - 9:56 am | #

We have such a ridiculously elastic view of "youth" these days. Look at the report...Trudeau is 34 years old!!! You might consider him a youth if he was planning to live to 110!!!
Blair | 04.07.06 - 10:45 am | #

Ditto to my last comment posted !!!!
Langley Free Press | 04.07.06 - 12:14 pm | #

LFP,
I'll acknowledge your view about working until late into life, but talking "youth" is another subject. We give "youth" the benefit of the doubt because they don't have the necessary experiences to recognize the consequences of their actions. That is why we have expressions like “youthful exuberance”, “youthful indiscretion” or “errors of my youth”. The problem is when individuals who are not youths claim those same rights. A Quebec cabinet minister taking cocaine or a US Senator sleeping around shouldn’t be able to call their actions “youthful indiscretions” and Justin Trudeau is certainly not a “youth”, he is a married teacher who may teach youth but certainly isn’t one.

For Trudeau to claim to be a youth in this case disempowers the very people for whom this whole process (political renewal) is designed. He is an adult who is taking the voice away from the very young people who the party are looking to for new ideas.

My two cents.
Blair | 04.07.06 - 12:33 pm | #

Hey I still think I am a youth at heart...my body dosn't seem to agree with me though!
Langley Free Press | 04.07.06 - 1:48 pm | #

The name Trudeau is the biggest zit on the face of canadian society
Aman | 04.07.06 - 5:31 pm | #

Trudeau the younger is getting good advice from someone. By the time he makes a run for the leadership of the party, (the completion of his own ego trip) the voyers of the day will consider him a man of the hour. They will have no personal memories of how much damage his father did to the country, and the myth of Pierre will serve him well. Mon Dieux!
methinks | 04.07.06 - 10:51 pm | #

One can only hope that Justin Trudeau will enter politics and that right soon. His father will go down in history as our most important prime minister. He will bring a breath of fresh air to the Liberal party. I can hardly wait.
Lorne Babcock Sr. | 06.17.06 - 5:49 pm | #