Critics have often accused me of having my head in the clouds, if not somewhere darker and more malodorous. But I was literally in a cloud forest, sitting in a volcanic hot spring, when Justin Trudeau announced his resignation last Monday.

It was the first major political event in recent Canadian history I have not covered — and I can’t say I was upset about not participating in the pile-on. Trudeau is going and history will likely judge him more kindly than his contemporaries, as we saw with Brian Mulroney.