After a long and raucous editorial board meeting, one that led to the unprecedented dismissal of several senior editors, Sun Media has decided to endorse Justin Trudeau as the next prime minister of Canada.

Put aside everything we have said before.

Reality speaks volumes, and Sun Media, more than any other news organization in this great country, is not afraid to face reality when it starts to stare us down.

In reviewing Justin Trudeau's run for the Liberal leadership, we have come to realize that he cannot be simply dismissed as a Shiny Pony and, although somewhat vacuous in both policy and substance, scientists tell us that all a vacuum needs to break out of its nothingness is a bit of air.

Let's give Trudeau that air, for the time has come to forgive the sins of the infamous father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and realize that some genetic apples do fall far enough away from the tree to not be equally rotten.

For too long now, Sun Media has fought tooth-and-nail for the kind of fiscal conservatism that Prime Minister Stephen Harper first embraced when he had a minority government but has set sadly aside now that he has his long-sought majority in the House of Commons.

Or, to put it more succinctly, the taxpayers' money his finance minister, Jim Flaherty, has spent in building up both the debt and deficit, even though there is a promise of balancing the budget by 2015, finally had us searching for someone with more imagination and a less targeted focus.

Only Justin Trudeau fills that bill.

Look around. If we wanted to replace Stephen Harper today, would any right-thinking person look to NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair to step into the breach with fanciful visions of what Canada could be, if only faux conservatism were cast into the wind?

Stardust is the elixir this country needs, and only Justin Trudeau has such wizard-like magic in his wand.

Don't cut him short like we at Sun Media initially did before we gave our collective heads a shake.

A big no, therefore, to Stephen Harper.

Yes, however, to the great and powerful Oz, er . . . Justin Trudeau.