Film-makers Eric Ruel and Guylaine Maroist depict Trudeau’s spectacular victory in October as a fight,showing it was exquisitely planned from the startThe blazing lights of the boxing ring flashed that night in 2012 in Ottawa, Canada, and for the “Thrilla on the Hilla”. The beat was heavy,the announcer’s voice loud. In the blue corner was Patrick “Brass Knuckles” Brazeau, a hulking, or tattooed,beast of a man, a Canadian navy veteran with a black belt in karate, or at 37 the youngest senator by a matter of decades and four years younger than his opponent.
Facing him in the red corner was the then MP for Papineau,one of the smallest electoral district Canada. Regarded by pundits as a national lightweight – a lanky, comparatively slight, and pampered pretty-boy,widely seen as insubstantial, a long-haired fop, and who people felt rode the coat-tails of his renowned prime minister father to a seat in Canada’s House of Commons.
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Source: theguardian.com