Some are uneasy with Justin Trudeau at the helm for reasons that become clear in considering his father, Pierre.

Yes, lots of Canadians held it against Pierre that he was cozy with Castro, the leftist of Cuba, and that he seemed softer and less philosophically uptight about Brezhnev's Soviet Union than was, say, the US State Department, Pierre seeming to view the USSR's communism as a valid government model that, who knows, might just win the cold war.

But when it came to trade, to cold dollars, look, when Pierre wanted Canadian wheat and corn products shipped and sold to the Soviet Union, everybody saw Trudeau as looking our for Canadian workers, looking our for the Canadian farmer, looking out for the little guy working in Canada.

Justin Trudeau fumbles with trade, his optics are a mess. With China, many see him as not looking out for everyday Canadians, instead seeming to march with an eye on some grand global audience or tied to some faraway, not-straightforward agenda...