Monday, April 30, 2007

Papineau Liberals show Justin Trudeau true Grit

Despite a possible Greek-Italian gangup on Justin in the lower middle class, northeast side of town, Trudeau's Papineau Liberals gave it their full true Grit, with more than half going to him on the first ballot at 54 per cent of the 1,266 ballots cast and giving Bloc Québécois MP Vivian Barbot a little younger Liberal opponent than the former foreign affairs minister Pierre Pettigrew she defeated last election!

Ethnic voting blocs are tough to trump, but they are especially made tougher when done in the ethically diverse province of Québec, where French is the key, yet anything but is now the fashion and how so with Trudeau. He needs to be given credit where it is due for himself, he went full force into a political firefight, having no real political training behind him, having only his namesake and environmental friendly causes behind him to go and win a major party nomination as its candidate of record in the upcoming election all at a tender age of 35. As Entertainment Tonight declared earlier this week, 30 is the new 20 in Hollywood, yet up here in Canada, one can be forgiven to believe 50 is the new 25, as astrological age doesn't drastically change ones outlook on life and as this seems to be the going rule and current style for young Justin.

Even more interestingly, Trudeau's support of a left of centre, unilingual and English-bred Manitoban in Gerard Kennedy and original upscale riding of Outremont where he lives seems to have given him a boost amongst federalists in the riding, first, he's not Québécois, then he supports those who aren't Québécois and now it all seems okay by those who are Québécois - the natural governing Liberal Party of Canada has temporarily cracked its previously politically protected shell - but yet for how long?