Columnist Valpy has written a thoughtful, persuasive piece about the increasing disconnect between  political insiders and ordinary Canadians.

PM Trudeau may not be Stephen Hawkins on steroids but even he can read the polls and election results and discern he is swimming upstream in policy responses versus what the folks who actually pay the bulk of the bills actually want.

But while the PM is awake to current opinion and trends, much like his father he believes he can drag the people kicking and screaming toward his vision of Utopia, a vision that makes him uniquely Yesterday's Man  in terms of what first world citizens want in terms of economic growth, job creation,  trade, taxes, public finances, immigrants who will assimilate and contribute, security and national identity.

I am reminded of Walter Stewart`s Trudeau 1.0 bio "Shrug".  The chapter on "participatory democracy" was titled "I'll Hold The Bullhorn and You'll Listen". 

The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Pity.