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The United States is flirting with dynastic politics in choosing between another Bush and another Clinton.\u00a0 Now Canada has gone ahead and chosen the son of Pierre Trudeau, prime minister in the 1970s and 1980s, to be their new prime minister.\u00a0 Justin Trudeau and his liberal party defeated incumbent Stephen Harper and his conservatives.<\/p>\n

You Canadian readers, please tell us what this means.\u00a0 How much further to the left will this take Canada?\u00a0 What were the issues and what new policies do you expect from Trudeau II?<\/p>\n

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From Meet Canada\u2019s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Justin Trudeau, the dashing eldest son of political legend Pierre Trudeau, has ushered in Canada\u2019s first political dynasty with a stunning come-from-behind victory. But the new prime minister\u2019s win may owe as much to voters\u2019 fatigue with the outgoing government as to the legacy of his father.<\/p>\n

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The younger Trudeau defeated Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Monday\u2019s elections, ending a nine-year reign that had shifted Canada politically to the right.<\/p>\n

The victory comes just weeks after Trudeau\u2019s Liberal Party was running third in the polls, behind Harper\u2019s Conservatives and Thomas Mulcair\u2019s center-left New Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Both Mulcair and Harper had taunted the athletic Trudeau, 43, in campaign ads that referred to him as \u201cJustin\u201d and made fun of his \u201cnice hair.\u201d Critics said he was too young and inexperienced to become prime minister.<\/p>\n

But Trudeau ran a tireless 78-day campaign based on change and optimism at a time when many frustrated voters wanted \u201canyone but Harper.\u201d Trudeau, a former schoolteacher, ran on a centrist platform, to the left of the Conservatives but to the right of the NDP. He also benefited from many Canadians\u2019 fond memories of his father, a public intellectual who was prime minister from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason he got the job of leadership is the same reason Hillary [Clinton] and Jeb Bush can run \u2014 name recognition,\u201d said Nelson Wiseman, director of the Canadian Studies Program at the University of Toronto. \u201cHe is personable. He is a family man. He has three kids. That is appealing. But he doesn\u2019t have much gravitas. He is an intellectual lightweight compared with his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

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