Trudeau gets way too much flak in general.
He has his warts and missteps but he is a good leader. His performance today was excellent.
I also saw him a few years ago at a town hall and he was under withering pressure from a bunch of angry indigenous men who wanted to show him up and get their shots in. He handled it extremely well. He let them speak, he answered questions directly, he wasn't afraid to correct them where they were wrong and he basically diffused the situation. The great majority of us wouldn't stand a chance of coping half as well as he did. I was very impressed. Not that that alone makes him a good leader; the bar is high and it should be. Nevertheless, he's not a joke like so many want to make him out to be, and he deserves respect even if we don't agree with his policies.
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