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Wellington Village’s Bob Plamandon, whose varied work and goals have always centred on nation building, hopes he’s started a trend in evidence-based examinations of politicians with The Truth about Trudeau. Photo by Ted Simpson
Nation builder, truth teller
Wellington village author on our most (in)famous politician By Kathleen Wilker
“I think there’s a lot that we can learn about what works and what doesn’t work from studying the results of (Pierre Elliot) Trudeau’s career,” says Plamondon. Popular yet controversial – just like its subject who is consistently ranked as both Canada’s most favourite and least favourite Canadian – The
Truth about Trudeau has garnered Plamondon interviews in newspapers and political shows across the country. “The book isn’t a rant and I don’t look at his personal life,” says Plamondon, who hopes his book will spark a genre of evidence-based examinations of the careers and policies of our politicians so that we
can learn what has and hasn’t work. “There are a lot of memoires,” he says. But not a lot of books focused on reviewing policies. The Prime Minister’s support for immigration is one of the many myths about Trudeau that Plamondon examines. Under Trudeau, the numbers of immigrants Continued on page 14
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