Trudeau tells BBC he left Canadian detractors ‘in the dust’
LONDON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used an interview with an influential BBC current affairs show in London to issue his most pungent retort yet to his Canadian detractors.
Trudeau, 43, endured more than two years of Conservative party attack ads declaring him “just not ready” before sweeping prime minister Stephen Harper from power in last month’s federal election.
Asked by BBC television’s NewsNight program about his famous family name, Trudeau didn’t deny that having had his father Pierre Trudeau lead the country for almost 16 years opened some doors.
“I think the way I was raised was that I have to work two or three times as hard as anyone else to walk through that door now that it’s open,” he said.
Trudeau then delivered a sharp retort that could be seen as a direct shot at Harper and other Conservative partisans.
“There’s an awful lot of people who sort of shrugged and said he has nothing but a name to go on and found themselves slightly bewildered as I left them in the dust,” said the prime minister
Trudeau also had sharp words for what he described as people running as anti-politicians, citing U.S. Republican party presidential hopeful Donald Trump and “our own Rob Ford in Toronto.”
Trudeau tells BBC he left detractors 'in the dust'
LONDON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used an interview with an influential BBC current affairs show in London to issue his most pungent retort yet to his Canadian detractors.
Trudeau, 43, endured more than two years of Conservative party attack ads declaring him “just not ready” before sweeping prime minister Stephen Harper from power in last month’s federal election.
Asked by BBC television’s NewsNight program about his famous family name, Trudeau didn’t deny that having had his father Pierre Trudeau lead the country for almost 16 years opened some doors.
“I think the way I was raised was that I have to work two or three times as hard as anyone else to walk through that door now that it’s open,” he said.
Trudeau then delivered a sharp retort that could be seen as a direct shot at Harper and other Conservative partisans.
“There’s an awful lot of people who sort of shrugged and said he has nothing but a name to go on and found themselves slightly bewildered as I left them in the dust,” said the prime minister
Trudeau also had sharp words for what he described as people running as anti-politicians, citing U.S. Republican party presidential hopeful Donald Trump and “our own Rob Ford in Toronto.”
Trudeau tells BBC he left detractors 'in the dust'