FROLITICKS

Oh pooh ho, I’m getting a little tired of media gibes and media hype surrounding young Justin Trudeau and the Trudeau legacy.  Of course, a majority of Canadians when polled would associate his family name with that of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.  This is just a natural as Americans recognizing the Kennedy or Bush names.  After ten years of Steve, oh excuse me Stephen Harper, why wouldn’t a young dynamic individual stir up some excitement.  Let’s face it, under control freak Harper and the blah ‘Conservatives’, politics has become as dull as sitting on a nest of Canadian geese eggs and hoping that  they’ll eventually hatch.  Come on folks, let’s recognize at least what Obama did for the States!  He galvanized a whole generation of American youth to actually become interested in the political electoral process.  After all, Canadians and Americans under forty represent their country’s future and should now take a leadership role.  Justin Trudeau, at forty-one, has shown that at a minimum he can relate to the emerging common values of young Canadians: including those related to sexual orientation, new technologies, the environment, marriage, work-life balance, the legalization of marijuana, etc.  The message appears to be one of hope and change and not of fear and retrogressive social policy thinking.  Sure, there will be comparisons made to his father, both his famous and infamous traits.  However, it’s been 45 years since his father won the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, inspiring a whole country.  A hell of a lot has changed since then and Justin Trudeau may just be the person to reflect many of those changes on his own terms — hopefully once again motivating a whole new generation of voters.