Is Chrystia Freeland Justin Trudeau's brain?

Whatever else you might say about Chrystia, she is a person who sticks by her convictions. I guess you could call that, from a certain perspective, "integrity".

Whereas Justin always came across as a not-too-bright trust fund kid whose heart was in the right place. His universe was pretty much confined to a school-teacher's routine complimented by dinner parties and reefer after work. Nice enough guy, but perhaps not quite Alpha enough to be a real leader.

He doesn't come across as a guy who had any particular convictions on anything. Sure, he can toss out the vacuous bromides with the best of them, but it's not "conviction" in the sense Chrystia has convictions.

Justin had a liability that others, perhaps a little more savvy than he, thought they might leverage into an asset, given the right strategy. He had the Trudeau name.


And here we are...