I don’t take pressure… I never learned to take pressure… When 18-year-old Justin Trudeau said these words on his college campus, he was brimming with confidence. The confident and privileged Trudeau had no idea at that time that he would have to pay a heavy price for this pressure in the future. Along with his attractive and charismatic personality, Trudeau, who has six-pack abs and feminist image, became the Prime Minister in 2015 with the same popularity with which he left the post amidst much criticism.
It is surprising to know that Justin’s political fate was exactly the same as that of his father Pierre Trudeau. It is a coincidence that the political graph of father and son kept on facing hiccups in a parallel manner, who got fame all over the world but also got a lot of embarrassment.
Starting from the beginning, politics was Justin Trudeau’s destiny because he was born in the PM House. In 1971 when the world was celebrating Christmas. Justin was born at 24 Sussex Drive (the official residence of the Canadian PM), in the house of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Justin has inherited good looks, shapely body and attractive physique from his father.
In a country where political dynasty politics is rarely seen. Justin Trudeau was the first Canadian to reach this position, following his father’s footsteps. The life of father and son is replete with all kinds of similarities. The similarity was so much that the kind of fame both of them saw in their political careers, their fall also happened in almost the same manner.
Justin’s father Pierre Trudeau is among the powerful Prime Ministers of Canada. He is counted among the intellectuals of the country for his love for languages ​​and civil rights advocate. He was passionate and had the urge to work out of the box. But he also had a dark side which weighed heavily on him later on. He was elected MP for the first time in 1965 and then within three years reached the post of Prime Minister. The reins of Canada were in his hands for 15 years from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984. And when he did not have power, he used to sit in the Parliament as the leader of the opposition and expose the government.
Pierre Trudeau’s popularity was such that for him Trudeaumania The term was used i.e. his popularity was sky high across the country. robert wright his book Trudeaumania: The rise to power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau He writes that Pierre’s style made him different from the rest. He used to bluntly tell Canadians that if you don’t agree with him, you can vote for someone else. He was outspoken. This was the reason why he was also called Canada’s JFK (John F. Kennedy).
Trudeau family is a sympathizer of Khalistanis!
Last year, Justin Trudeau, while standing in the Canadian Parliament, had accused an Indian agent of the murder of Khalistani Hardeep Singh Nijjar. There was an uproar across the world on his allegation. Questions were raised that what is the reason behind sympathy with Khalistanis? It is being said that these roots of sympathy were nurtured by his father Pierre.
In the early 1980s, Pierre Trudeau also faced criticism for taking a soft stance towards Khalistani supporters in Canada. In 1982, Pierre Trudeau had rejected Indira Gandhi’s request to extradite Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar to India. Talwinder was a wanted terrorist in India.
Senior Canadian journalist and journalist Terry Milewski, who has been reporting on the Khalistani movement for a long time, has written in his book that in the last forty years, Canada has provided a legally and politically favorable environment to the Khalistanis.
Canada’s soft stance towards Khalistanis has always been the target of Indian leaders. In 1982, the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi had requested the Canadian government to extradite Talwinder Singh Parmar to India, but Canada fell on deaf ears. The result was that the same Talwinder Singh bombed Air India’s Kanishka aircraft in 1985, in which 329 people died and a large number of those killed were Canadian citizens. Pierre had to face a lot of embarrassment in this matter.
Why was Pierre soft on Khalistanis and hard on Quebec?
At present, the way Khalistanis are demanding to separate from India and create a new nation. Similarly, in the 1970s, a strong nationalist movement was expanding in Quebec, which was demanding the independence of Quebec, but Pierre was strongly against it. A referendum regarding this was held for the first time in 1980. Pierre Trudeau played an important role in defeating the Quebec referendum, due to which 59 percent of the people voted in favor of remaining a part of Canada.
But what problem did Pierre have with Quebec’s demand for a separate nation? The real reason for this was that Pierre was born and brought up in Quebec, due to which he did not want it to separate from Canada and become a separate nation. Trudeau believed that a divided Canada would bring troubles to the country.
Quebec is actually a province of Canada, where the people have been demanding for a long time to create a nation separate from Canada. The people of Quebec have held referendums twice so far demanding independence from Canada. But no solution was found. Referendum has been held here for the first time in 1980 and for the second time in 1995.
Pierre and Richard Nixon’s relationship was like Justin Trudeau-Trump
Ever since winning the US presidential election, Donald Trump has become a headache for Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. From threatening to impose 25 per cent tariff tax on Canada to offering to make Canada the 51st state of America, he has gone after Trudeau. He is continuously cornering Trudeau through pressure politics. But this is not the first case of such a spat between Canadian and American heads of state.
Earlier, the relationship between Justin’s father Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the then US President Richard Nixon was also similar. Nixon had called Pierre Trudeau an idiot on several occasions and also used abusive language against him. Pierre had also publicly admitted that spending time with Nixon would be like hanging out with a mad elephant.
Pierre Trudeau may have achieved immense popularity in his political career, but with time opposition to him started in his own party. Initially this protest started in hushed tones but later it grew so much that he had to resign from the post of Prime Minister. Pierre’s political career, who had plans of conquering the world, was ruined due to domestic conflict. Looking at the political innings of Pierre Trudeau, it can be guessed that Justin Trudeau’s political fate has also been like that of his father.
When Justin was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 2013, he said in an interview to a newspaper that I did not enter politics because my father was a strong leader and it was important for me to follow his footsteps. I chose this path because I felt that I could do something better in politics. I am sure I will do something better.
Justin Trudeau was fully aware that like his father Pierre Trudeau, he had taken some big wrong decisions, the damages for which he would have to pay in the same way as his father had. Then he once said that There are some people who love me because of my father, there are some who hate me because of my father. I have had to learn not to ignore this reality completely but to understand that none of these aspects should determine who and what I am…
