Princely certainty

Trudeau’s exuberance and confidence, his princely certainty of the importance of his ideas, have often led him to make comments he has later had to disavow. It is part and parcel of the certainty that led him to speak forcefully about his support for gay marriage in a mosque – an admirable belief in presenting his views forthrightly and bravely. The problem is that he had a similar certainty about matters where he did not know what he was talking about. It reflected the immaturity of an academic dilettante, someone whose opinions were always greeted with interest because of his charisma and family name, but who lacked the intellectual discipline for which his father was famous.

Stephen Maher, journalist and author, The Prince