When Justin Trudeau became Canada’s Prime Minister four years...

When Justin Trudeau became Canada’s Prime Minister four years ago, progressive men and women around the world swooned with pleasure. The 43-year-old son of Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Justin was a left-wing dauphin. In addition to being the leader of the Liberal Party – Canada’s equivalent of Labour – he was good-looking, tattooed, pro-immigration and had worked as a bungee-jumping coach before going into politics. He was like a woke version of Tony Blair, except with better hair.

Imagine the gnashing and wailing of teeth, then, when his premiership became engulfed in a corruption scandal last month following the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first indigenous Attorney-General. She claims Trudeau pressured her to cut a deal with one of Canada’s largest companies, SNC Lavalin, which is facing bribery charges. It employs 15,000 people in Quebec – a key state the Liberals need to win at the forthcoming General Election – and Trudeau was reportedly worried about the impact a public trial would have on his Party’s electoral prospects.

In another unfortunate twist, it transpires that Trudeau demoted Wilson-Raybould to Minister of Veterans Affairs when she refused to do his bidding – presumably because he thought it would look bad if he fired a woman from h