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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Chances are that this election would have been a different story for me if the Liberals would have elected Marc Garneau in as their leader. But every time I listen to Trudeau, I find that there is little that compels me to respect or believe that he's a leader, or that he knows what he's talking about beyond sound bites..
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The problem with Garneau is that he only won his seat by 600 or so votes in 2011 (and was 0.500 in elections before that). It would have looked really bad to have a leader that would be in real danger of not winning his own seat in 2015.
The other issue is that he will be 67 years old within a few months of this election and probably 72 by the time his term is up. The Liberals are trying to appeal more to young voters and probably saw his age as an issue.