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Once upon a time it looked like nothing could ever go wrong for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was the fairytale prince of international politics, and wife Sophie was his equally perfect princess.
Young, tall, unfeasibly good-looking, he and his ex-TV presenter and personal shopper wife had three beautiful children to match and a shared mission to change the world – one woke step at a time.
If to outsiders and political opponents they seemed just a little bit sanctimonious and smug – actually, achingly, teeth-gratingly smug – to many of their fellow Canadians, who are sometimes accused of having the same faults, it didn’t seem to matter.
Their ridiculous, virtue-signalling antics – from posting online photos of their impressive yoga positions to dressing the entire family in lavish traditional Indian costumes during a 2018 trip to New Delhi – received nothing like the mockery they surely deserved.
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