{"id":13560,"date":"2012-02-15T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:55:13","slug":"justin-trudeau-soft-separatist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/justin-trudeau-soft-separatist\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau: soft separatist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9e Legault is busily trying to walk back her scoop, as she claims now that the information being presented in English is distorted and a false characterization of what Justin Trudeau actually said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/02\/15\/justin-trudeau-reflections-on-a-grown-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Cosh<\/a> isn&#8217;t convinced:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Legault goes on to gripe about the \u201chonesty\u201d of this characterization. In fact, it is perfectly honest and in perfect concord with what Trudeau said, and Legault was correct to recognize it as news in the first place, even if she does not now like the result (perhaps because she has lost ownership of the scoop).<\/p>\n<p>Justin Trudeau <em>did<\/em> say he was willing to contemplate separation under real-world circumstances. \u201cOne day, who knows?\u201d is more or less exactly what he told the interviewer. This <em>is<\/em> a legitimate surprise. And while I believe that a forty-year-old man is entitled to his own opinions &mdash; not that any Quebecois baby boomer can stand to think of Justin as a person entering the era of back pain and prostate problems &mdash; the contrast with his father\u2019s extreme anti-sovereigntist position really <em>is<\/em> worth remarking upon, if only because Justin\u2019s surname is the source of much of his influence.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>And yet, as sane and worthy of imitation as he seems in these respects, does anybody recognize the \u201cCanada of Stephen Harper\u201d Trudeau ranted against so excitingly today in front of a scrum in Centre Block? Harper\u2019s party has not only accepted the legal fact of same-sex marriage, but has promised to shore it up against the disrepair in which the prior Liberal regime left it. The pro-life agitators in the Conservative caucus are a few barely-detectable grains of pepper amidst a kilogram of salt; on the whole, they are little more numerous and noisy than the pro-lifers in the pre-2011 Liberal caucus (who were, in one of history\u2019s petty ironies, disproportionately victims of Conservative gains in non-metro Ontario).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9e Legault is busily trying to walk back her scoop, as she claims now that the information being presented in English is distorted and a false characterization of what Justin Trudeau actually said. Colby Cosh isn&#8217;t convinced: Legault goes on to gripe about the \u201chonesty\u201d of this characterization. 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