It would nonetheless be refreshing for Trudeau to describe it as a team effort with his advisors, rather than, as he does so often, mugging the cameras to give a histrionic, dramatic display of acting the big leader man.

I suspect that you (very understandably and reasonably) favor President Obama over Trump.

Terrific, and Obama is a case in point of what I am getting at: Obama had no need or compulsion to give histrionic, dramatic displays of acting the big leader man and, indeed, he frequently acknowledged in his speeches the contributions and sacrifices by others, and in leaving office Obama even thanked the American people for making him 'a better man'.

When a scientist gives a speech about the lab's directions and accomplishments, she or he typically names each contributor and their ideas. For a prime minister who says he salutes evidence based, scientific approaches and those who take them, he falls short in the expected and appropriate protocol. Always the drama teacher.