I want to be a Broadway actress. I know I can achieve whatever I put my mind to achieving. I heard the same expression six times in the course of two days, the popular street distillation of the Trudeau philosophy. She'd been watching the Trudeau coverage. Flirty stuff like that was happening all over the place, as if Trudeau's death had bared everyone's hearts and brought all their longings to the surface.
Public grief turns out to be an aphrodisiac.
Me, I went to Montreal on an impulse, because I admired Trudeau. My reasons weren't original. He was as intelligent and daring as any leader of my generation or the next. He was the equal of Mandela or Havel or even Roosevelt. He had a vision, and he made it real.