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Originally Posted by Rerun
IRC Pierre Trudeau wasn't overly popular in Quebec at the end of his reign.
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He wasn't popular amoungst fracophone seperatists and hard nationalists. Amoungst anglophones, allophones, federalists, and immigrants he remained quite popular.
Frankly, I think Justin Trudeau is probably the best choice for the Liberal Party. Seen as generational change, excellent public speaker, buckets of charisma, high likeability factor, a draw as a fundraiser, young enough to grow into the job (As an aside I really don't the meme that he's "too young" he's almost 41 years old... that's middle-aged not young. If he win's he'll be a whole year and a half younger then Harper was when he became leader of the CA and nobody called him young)... basically he has all the attributes of a successful retail politician. Sounds like he has a pretty good team around him as well, hire himself a dynamite speechwriter and he ought to be good to go.
I wouldn't expect him to claim 24 Sussex in his first go around but I think he'd start eating the NDP's Lunch in Quebec, Ontario, and the Atlantic(Maybe B.C. as well) and position them nicely for the election thereafter.