When visiting the True North, it's always good to pop into the local bookstores and see what's filling the shelves. One is Justin Trudeau's new memoir, his get-to-know-me tome that we'll all need to read before he runs for President — oops, Prime Minister — next year. And we have to admit it's shorter and breezier than the giant Clinton doorstop that we recently slogged through.
Maybe that's because Justin spends a lot of time in the book talking about his famous family. There are fewer Trudeaus than, say, Kennedys, but their lives are just as crazy and glamorous. (And yes, sad.) And naturally, he slams the ever-unappealing Stephen Harper and his "we hate everybody who's not like us" Conservative Party at every opportunity. But we cats were pleasantly surprised to come across slaps at right wingers south of the 49th parallel as well.
Here's one: "My father was fond of quoting Thomas Aquinas's admonition hominem unius libri timeo (I fear the man of a single book). I internalized that: Whenever a classmate or friend tried to convince me that the answers to life's big questions or major political issues could be derived from The Communist Manifesto or Atlas Shrugged...I grew wary. [T]he world is too complicated to be stuffed into a single overarching ideology."
Fun! What American would pick up this book expecting a shot at Paul Ryan, Ron and Rand Paul, and the entire staff of The National Review? We cats loved it, and we PURR.
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