While starting off as a popular Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was later seen by Canadians more critically, and they perceived him as someone who was “in it for himself,” Trudeau’s former advisor Omer Aziz says.
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00:00I mean you've worked with Justin Trudeau as an advisor and I'm presuming you
00:04work closely with him and and you've got to know him well. I mean was it what is
00:08it about him? Is there something about his character or is something in his
00:11character changed that's made him go from being you know the poster boy of
00:16Canadian and perhaps even Western politics to being someone who as you
00:21described is now deeply unpopular?
00:23No I think that the very thing that made him a blessing to so many Canadians was
00:27also a curse which is that the Liberal Party was built around him. He was very
00:32charismatic, compassionate, he was a good speaker, he did very well in politics. I
00:37mean he took the Liberal Party from third place in 2015 into a majority
00:42government which hasn't happened in Canada, the UK or other Westminster style
00:47democracies as far as I'm concerned but I think over time the culture and the
00:52public sentiment changed quite quickly. He was successful in negotiating with
00:56Donald Trump in 2017-2018 with regards to NAFTA. Many Canadians at the time
01:03liked how he handled the pandemic, supporting Canadians through a very
01:06difficult time but I think people began to see him as more in it for himself or
01:12for the personal brand. They began to feel that he was not authentic and not
01:17speaking to their concerns.