Justin Trudeau posts a picture of himself with his son, and the reaction is immediate and intense. What does it say about the relationship between a father and his son? And what does it mean for the rest of their relationship?
00:00:00.000Well, we're going to change from kind of federal government to Trudeau more personally.
00:00:05.540So everyone knows Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregor Trudeau split.
00:00:12.700They put out kind of at the same time simultaneous statements that I think were very, you could tell there was a lot of communication strategists behind this.
00:00:21.460The deal was already arranged to make it as neat as possible.
00:00:26.100And in there, they included a very reasonable and humane plea for privacy for their families that we try to, you know, keep, try not to make the personal political here.
00:00:39.360And the media more or less do normally respect that, at least for liberals.
00:00:43.900Liberals' private lives are generally considered more or less off limits.
00:00:48.780But then, and we're going to have to bring a picture up here.
00:00:52.380I think it was about two days later, Justin Trudeau posts this picture of him and his son.
00:00:59.660I didn't even know what his son looks like.
00:02:19.760That smug little, whatever else you think about it, was very clearly sending some kind of message, using his son as a prop, like, less than 48 hours after he makes a plea for privacy.
00:02:33.060And it just reminded me of, you know, Harry and Meghan Merkle touring around the media, going on Oprah, screaming, please respect our privacy.
00:02:44.000You know, just kind of like that South Park episode and Harry and Meghan's privacy tour.