Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: Trudeau, the Education of a Prime Minister
This is a very helpful book for understanding the Trudeau team. Trudeau is definitely depicted as a true blue liberal who is inclusive to immigrants and big on spending. He is described in the books as an authoritarian populist. I would agree. It was pretty gross to hear that he was trying to fire his two top staff members for not having confidence in him and "not believing in him". Since when do you fire people who are your trusted advisors that come forward to you with real concerns? That part is legitimately and genuinely narcissistic. Otherwise I agree that recording a conversation without consent is 100% unconscionable and that was entirely unfair to him. He definitely has come off as vain and too fragile for the work he is attempting to do in that final chapter. If it's true that he's willing to obstruct justice for purely narcissistic ends that is 100% not okay and everything his position requires him to stand against, so I don't know how he's going to pull the unconscionable line when he's doing that. I don't see any evidence he actually did that, and otherwise I agree that what happened to him at the end was way too undermining to be okay. That said, not allowing for trusted and proven advisors to disagree and come forward with concerns is when we're hitting real authoritarianism level and that is not okay. But from the looks of it, it's more to do with how they did it and the fact it was insidious like illegally recording calls instead of just coming forward with a concern in an upfront manner. Separately, I think it was funny that he actually got in a fight with the indigenous senator as a feminist. It's probably left a wound and they've probably fought and hurt people due to the narcissistic injury of all that. I can think of one such case in the area. It's great that he's feminist, it's great that he's liberal, the 50% cabinet rate for women is fantastic. However, benevolent racism towards China that minimized its very real threat to not only his politics but his country's and in general a flip-flopping even for people that were his winning team members shows some elements of mental instability. Nevertheless, he kept the economy going pretty well during his tenure as Prime Minister, and he was still inclusive while doing so. There are a lot of good things to be here, much more good than bad. I think his main concern was the insidious and undermining nature of how they recorded his call. Nobody should deal with support that close being that insidiously nasty and undermining. I would definitely encourage their immediate removal if they were detected as being that close and that undermining, doing nasty things just to do them. That’s not ok at all. No leader can work under those conditions. They have no right to expect him to help with the Trump issue while doing that. You cannot beat that kind of phenomenon with people weakly undermining you like that, that I entirely agree with it if that’s all it was. But if it was basic concerns waged to that level of a reaction, that would be genuine authoritarianism of a truly problematic nature with a narcissistic feature. But I don't see evidence that that was what it was. Maybe there is. I'll have to read more on it. Otherwise one of the better leaders the world has seen.