Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull both beat conservatives to win,and both are ‘progressives’. Can Turnbull make righteous on the promise of change Trudeau seems to have realised?Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau says that half his cabinet are women “because it’s 2015”. A snappy response, but an odd one.
You could only say that and believe it whether you thought that time inevitably brings moral advancement, or that history points in one direction,and that the mere passage of the years is enough to deliver certain the political outcomes you find congenial.
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Source: theguardian.com