When Erin O’Toole was elected leader of Canada’s Conservative Party last week, woke Canadians knew how to respond. “OMG, he’s the same age as Justin Trudeau,” declared the leftist Twitter hive mind. “I guess being a Right-wing bigot must take its toll.”
Thanks, guys, for unintentionally reminding us that you have no idea what a hard day’s work looks like. Trudeau, who at 47 years old is the elder by a year, does indeed look svelte and groomed. A trust fund baby, the closest he came to a proper job before assuming the leadership of his father’s old party was as a supply teacher. O’Toole, by contrast, left school to join the military. Heavyweight but with a merry twinkle in his eye, he has an everyman quality to which the metrosexual Trudeau can never aspire.
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