Perception of Trudeau changed

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While starting off as a popular Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was later seen by Canadians more critically, and they perceived him as someone who was “in it for himself,” Trudeau’s former advisor Omer Aziz says.  #Trudeau #Canada

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00:00I mean you've worked with Justin Trudeau as an advisor and I'm presuming you

00:04work closely with him and and you've got to know him well. I mean was it what is

00:08it about him? Is there something about his character or is something in his

00:11character changed that's made him go from being you know the poster boy of

00:16Canadian and perhaps even Western politics to being someone who as you

00:21described is now deeply unpopular?

00:23No I think that the very thing that made him a blessing to so many Canadians was

00:27also a curse which is that the Liberal Party was built around him. He was very

00:32charismatic, compassionate, he was a good speaker, he did very well in politics. I

00:37mean he took the Liberal Party from third place in 2015 into a majority

00:42government which hasn't happened in Canada, the UK or other Westminster style

00:47democracies as far as I'm concerned but I think over time the culture and the

00:52public sentiment changed quite quickly. He was successful in negotiating with

00:56Donald Trump in 2017-2018 with regards to NAFTA. Many Canadians at the time

01:03liked how he handled the pandemic, supporting Canadians through a very

01:06difficult time but I think people began to see him as more in it for himself or

01:12for the personal brand. They began to feel that he was not authentic and not

01:17speaking to their concerns.

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