What are the opinions of the author about Harper and Trudeau?
axel53: I wasn't a Harper fan and I'm not a Trudeau fan. Harper was too remote from most people and seemed to feel that ordinary Canadians would just have to deal with the fallout associated with the kind of dehumanizing globalization he favoured. Didn't Conrad Black - hardly a bleeding heart lefty himself - describe Harper's style as that of a "sadistic Victorian schoolmaster?" Canadians opted for a sunnier style in 2015, which they certainly got in Trudeau. But personally I find that he comes across as a policy lightweight and a poseur, although the latter description is perhaps unfair in that it implies that his behaviour is deliberate whereas too often he seems to come across more as gormless than manipulative.