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These were his best years because people were rooting for him. He was also really popular. He was also able to reach out to the younger generation,
Lalancette said
There was a moment where he was really a supernova,
said Alex Marland, a professor of political science at Acadia UniversityHe created a movement in 2015 and he got a lot of young people engaged,
said Albert Burgesson, who sat on the Prime Minister's Youth Council from 2019 until 2021What was growing over time was the disconnect between promise and delivery, and that's a fundamental problem when you're dealing with a brand,
he saidThey did not like anybody criticizing Justin Trudeau, because they saw him as almost a family member,
he saidPeople were using Twitter, but Instagram is more of an identity-centric, image-centric medium,
she saidHe probably stayed in power for a year too long,
said Genevieve Tellier, a political science professor at the University of Ottawa
Why can't he be our president?"
Rolling Stone magazine asked on a 2017 cover, six months into Trump's first termIt was a progressive government unlike anything we have seen since the 70s,
she said
The younger Trudeau has constantly lived with the reality that he is extraordinarily famous and thus most people have always wanted something from him,
journalist and author Steve Paikin said in July 2024.
Trudeau handled that with aplomb and great strategy and was able to get a new deal. So I think that's going to serve him well in the history books,
said historian J.D.M. Stewart, author of two books on Canadian prime ministersOne of the reasons why he's very unpopular right now is that he's been over-exposed,
said Stewart, speaking shortly before Trudeau announced his resignationWhat he inherited from his father, in my opinion, was stubbornness, like not seeing the writing on the wall here,
said University of Toronto politics professor Nelson Wiseman, referring to Trudeau's insistence until the end that he was the right man to lead the LiberalsI always understood that I'm an introvert who learned how to be an extrovert to succeed in politics,
he told the Toronto Star in 2021
It was my way of doing things, my way of having an impact. And it turns out I was pretty good at it, and I am pretty good at it,
he told U.S. late-night television host Stephen Colbert in September 2024.I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy
she said evasively to The Globe And Mail newspaper
Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada's borders.
It also gave President-elect Donald Trump a chance to crow and chalk up a victory for his tough borders policy, commenting