Why did Justin Trudeau resign? Canadians are in no doubt [Video]

Like father, like son?

Canada, like its southern neighbour, enjoys political dynasties more than Australia. And there is no dynasty larger than the Trudeaus, Canada’s Kennedys.

Pierre Trudeau, prime minister between 1968-79 and 1980-84, defined much of modern Canada and its progressive-left Liberal Party. The Charter of Rights, fighting Quebec separatism, and, in particular, being “not America” on the global stage.

His son Justin, famously destined to be PM since being anointed by then-US president Richard Nixon when he met Trudeau Snr in 1972, brought the Liberal Party back from political extinction in a single election in 2015, rekindling the “Trudeaumania” his father inspired in the ’60s and ’70s. …