That's Been My Contention For Years...

...it is easy to be popular and a hero of the downtrodden when you create a cradle to grave mentality on the backs of the middle class.

Lorne Gunter: Trudeau’s impact is obvious. It’s also mostly bad

Gary Hershorn / Reuters

Pierre Trudeau died 10 years ago this week, so of course the tributes and legacy analyses have been coming thick and fast. Among my favourites was offered up by Chantel Hebert, one of the few people worth reading at the Toronto Star.

Well, I have one, too. But unlike most commentators, I come to bury Trudeau (or at least make sure he’s still buried), not to praise him.
While he certainly had a profound impact on Canada, it was mostly destructive. Even the few positive changes he made might be called inevitable; they were the type of changes that were coming to every western society by dint of cultural evolution anyway. Read More »