‘A friend to count on’: Trudeau may be Obama's successor on the global stage
by Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington from Environment | The Guardian on (#16PHA)
As Obama nears the end of his term and Trudeau is just beginning his, it seems as if the US president has found a like-minded champion of liberal causes
Would that the battle for the White House were as congenial, sunny, optimistic and unabashedly inclusive and outward-looking as the symbolic handover for the job of liberal leader of the English-speaking world that took place on Thursday between Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau.
The two leaders - Obama gray and nearing the end of his term, Trudeau in the first months of his prime ministership - affirmed that when it came to what they called the "big ideas" of climate change and economic inclusion the two shared a common global vision.
