The reaction to Justin Trudeau's explanation of Quantum Computers shows we should raise our expectations

A competent politician gives a good answer to a sensible, if sarcastically posed, question. This should be normal.

On Friday Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, visited the Perimeter Institute - Canada's premier theoretical physics establishment. He was there to announce significant continued funding for their work. This includes basic quantum theory, with implications for quantum information and computing, an area emphasised by Perimeter Founder and Board Chair Mike Lazaridis. A reporter prefaced a question to Trudeau with:

I was going to ask you to explain quantum computing but... haha...