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“I spent the morning speaking with candidates, with fellow Liberals, with allies, with leaders within racialized communities across the country and I will continue to do the work necessary to keep us moving forward in the right way,” Trudeau said.

Any other candidate would be run out of politics — Trudeau thinks he can survive this and every other controversy that comes his way.

And why shouldn’t he think that after getting a free pass on SNC-Lavalin, the Aga Khan vacation and the Kokanee Grope.

“There is no context in which someone doesn’t have responsibility for things they’ve done in the past,” Trudeau told CBC in January 2018.

He made those comments knowing the story of the Kokanee Grope was out there — why make a definitive statement that you are responsible for your past on such actions when you are just as guilty?

Because the normal rules don’t apply to Trudeau — he simply said the woman on the receiving end of the grope experienced it differently.

“Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign, or not inappropriate, and a woman — particularly in a professional context — can experience it differently,” Trudeau said when finally confronted about this issue in July 2018.

The man has also been able to walk away from two ethics investigations that found he broke the law — one had him taking a lavish vacation on a private island from a man that lobbies the government for millions in grants each year, while the second found him guilty of trying to sway the outcome of an independent criminal prosecution.

Trudeau wanted to direct that SNC-Lavalin not face criminal prosecution on bribery and corruption charges.

He’s also quite possibly guilty of obstruction of justice, but used his power to shut down attempts by the RCMP to look into the matter.

You and I couldn’t do that, but we aren’t Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau has shown time and time again that there is one set of rules for him and another for the rest of us.

On Oct. 21, Canadians get to reflect on whether than is the kind of leader we want.

Hopefully the answer for most of us is no.