Justin Trudeau Aged 43 and a school teacher, in the coming weeks he will become the first son of a former Canadian prime minister who occupies the same place as his father at the head of the country's government. As leader of the Liberals, Pierre Elliot Trudeau governed from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.

During his mandate, he distinguished himself as a passionate politician, sometimes extravagant, rude on numerous occasions and who never left anyone, neither supporters nor opponents, indifferent. But above all he was a key politician in the understanding of modern Canada.

It was Pierre Trudeau who truly created the concept of Canada as a bilingual and multicultural country, open to emigration not only of European origin, but from all corners of the world.

He stood up to the United States with its policies of rapprochement towards China and Cuba, to the point of maintaining a relationship of true friendship with Fidel Castro, who in 2000 went to Montreal for his funeral to console Justin Trudeau and his mother, Margaret. . In Canada, he attracted deep enmities which still exist.

Following the Conservative Party's resounding defeat in Monday's election, prominent Conservative leaders acknowledged that one of the main reasons Conservative Leader Stephen Harper ran in the election was solely for the sake of defeating Trudeau. And he failed despite the personal attacks he launched against the young Trudeau, often considered childish by political analysts.

For example, during the election campaign, whenever Harper referred to the Liberal leader, he did so only by his first name and not his last name. Two days after the death of Pierre Trudeau in 2000, Harper summed up his contempt for the Liberal leader in an article published in the conservative press.

Harper rejected the concept of a “just society” created by Trudeau, his economic and social policies and his vision of a unified Canada.

The defeated Conservative leader even leaned in to criticize Pierre Trudeau for not enlisting in the army during World War II.

In Quebec, Trudeau's native province, the late leader also aroused deep antipathies, especially when in 1970 he decided to bring the army into the streets of this territory to contain the “October crisis” when the separatists Francophones resorted to armed actions.

During a crisis interview, Trudeau was asked how far he was willing to go to defend order, to which the then-prime minister responded, “Look at me.”

Justin Trudeau cannot avoid his father's shadow. Liberal leaders chose it as the last hope to rebuild the historic party after the catastrophic defeat of 2011.while the Liberal Party was reduced to just 34 MPs in Parliament.

In his autobiography “Common Ground”, published in October 2014, the young Canadian politician reveals the advice his father gave him during a conversation with his wife, Sophie.

“I reminded Sophie that my father had once told me that I should never feel obligated to be a politician: 'Our family,' Pierre Trudeau said, 'has done more than enough,'” Trudeau wrote.

Perhaps Trudeau, father of three children, never felt the duty to enter the political world, his profession is that of a teacher and he exercised this function for years, but the Liberal Party, which many considered the “natural party” of Canada, yes believe it.

In a country where the Trudeaus have until now been compared to the Kennedys of the United States, Justin's historic victory in the October 19 election set in stone his family's image as Canada's political dynasty.

EFE