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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I really wish the Liberals had chosen Garneau as their leader instead of Trudeau.
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Not speaking to you directly or about anyone in particular, but it is funny because I would bet that most of the same people that point out Trudeau's gimmicky traits, would be the first ones to charge the Liberals for using Garneau's astronaut past for attention. Garneau's popularity in his own riding took a pretty big hit the last election and Trudeau was on an opposite trajectory. It would have looked really bad to pick a leader that could very well lose their own riding at election time. Just to add, Garneau withdrew from leadership contention and put his support behind Trudeau. He wasn't even in the final 5 or 6 that the party ended up voting on. They couldn't have just chosen him.
No matter whom they picked, that person was going to be up for equal character assassination by most of the same people. Just my opinion of course.