He gets away with wearing blackface while calling other people racist. He spoils himself with opulent trips abroad and refuses to answer for it. As Stephen Maher, author of a new book, “The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau,” explains, the prime minister has always seen himself as having been born into royalty — and he’s acted like it. That lofty self-image has given Trudeau preternatural confidence and bravado, but it’s also made him capricious and vain, as Maher tells Brian Lilley, recounting the moments in the prime minister’s political life that show why Trudeau isn’t like the rest of us. (Recorded May 31, 2024.)

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