THINK AGAIN !!
By Lawrence Martin
For starters, Mr. Trudeau has about the same amount of experience as Stephen Harper did when he sought the Alliance Party leadership in 2002.
Mr. Harper was roughly the same age and had served about the same number of years in Parliament. Mr. Trudeau was a teacher. Although Mr. HARPER likes to call himself an economist, HE WASN’T. He had a graduate degree in economics but NO REAL JOB EXPERIENCE in the discipline. He did have some executive experience as head of a small right-wing lobby group, the National Citizens Coalition, and as policy director for the Reform Party.
But to argue that HARPER was better prepared would be to forget a big advantage Mr. Trudeau has over everyone in the experience department. You want political seasoning ? How about being raised since birth in the cauldron of power ? How about living all your early life at 24 Sussex Dr., son of a prime minister ?
For a course in political immersion, it’s hard to beat. Years of foreign leaders and premiers and princes and kings traipsing through your living room.
Heated debates at your dining room table.
Daily life with Papa PM during the fight for the country in the 1980 referendum.
Constitutional negotiations with the premiers just down the stairs from your bedroom.
Foreign trips to broaden the perspective. Then, all the counsel and tutoring in his father’s post-prime-ministerial years.
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