Once again, a Canadian federal government has floundered to the end of its acceptable term. If Justin Trudeau manages to hang onto the leadership of the Liberal party, he will try to be the first Canadian prime minister to win four consecutive terms since Wilfrid Laurier in 1906. The two men are scarcely comparable; through his handling of the Manitoba Schools controversy and in other ways, as the first French Canadian prime minister Laurier became the personification of national unity. Justin Trudeau has twiddled his thumbs while Quebec has attempted to suppress the English language. Laurier had become the leading statesman in the British Empire while Justin Trudeau has declared Canada a genocidal power, in the same category as Nazi Germany, the Ottoman Turks massacring Armenians and Bulgarians, Pol Pot killing a quarter of the population of Cambodia, and the Rwandans who murdered over a third of their countrymen.