[LINK] "Trudeau is equally traumatized by Trump"

[rfmcdonald]

Chantal Hébert's take in the Toronto Star on the reaction of Trudeau to the election of Trump is sobering.

Behind the stiff upper lip that Justin Trudeau has been keeping in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential victory, he and his government are no less traumatized by the result of the American election than the majority of Canadians.

There is not a single member of the prime minister’s caucus and precious few if any on the opposition benches who did not find the president-elect’s campaign abhorrent. That, in itself, is unprecedented in the modern history of the two countries.

Canada’s current Parliament is made up of members who only a few months ago gave Barack Obama multiple standing ovations. The outgoing president finished his 50-minute address on chants of “four more years.”

If Trump and Obama have anything in common it is that they equally unite Canadians — in strikingly opposite ways.

But little of that was in evidence this week as Trudeau took stock of the outcome of the American election.