Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a podcast released Monday night joked that his father still had twelve years as prime minister when he was his age — so why should he take his walk in the snow so soon?
Comedian Mark Critch on This Hour Has 22 Minutes interviewed the prime minister in a video recorded prior to former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s December 16 resignation but released as a year-end interview the day before New Year’s Eve.
Trudeau’s office following Freeland’s resignation abrupt cancelled all the prime minister’s traditional year-end interviews with legacy media.
“We know that 40 years ago, your father famously took a walk in the snow, when the Conservatives were up in the polls, and he decided it was time to give it up,” said Critch, referring to Pierre Trudeau's decision to step down as prime minister in February 1984. He was prime minister for 15 years.
“It’s snowing out there now," said Critch.
After a dramatic pause, Trudeau leans in and replies, “When my father was my age, he still had a dozen years of prime ministering ahead of him.”
