From the Article's title: "......brought him further than anyone expected" 
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3 weeks before Justin Trudeau  thru his hat into the ring for the Liberal leadership race the G&M ran a 9 page article on him.. In the lead up from there we were bombarded by all things Trudeau so much that people started pointing out that there was more media coverage of it than the entirety of the NDP Leader race a few months before.   

After he won, it escalated further with literally 100s of positive puff pieces that didn't end until his misstep with Teresa Spence's hunger vigil around Christmas.. then for a very brief while the media switched channels and focused a little on the official opposition.

It's been a given since the moment he won that he'd be our eventual Prime Minister.. He didn't surpass our expectations.. he simply confirmed our hopes, fears, and suspicions. (depending on your political point of view)