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There was only one major miracle of the 2019 federal election — Justin Trudeau.

While the results were still up in the air Monday night — writing this election was like writing about a hockey game without knowing overtime was coming, least of all if there’d be a shootout and who would win — there was no question to me that it would have been amazing enough if Trudeau had merely survived.

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And yet, it looked at this time of writing last night that he had done much more than that.

And one of his early re-elected cabinet ministers, Seamus O’Regan, was quick to praise Trudeau for having run a fantastic campaign. What does he give these seemingly bright men and women that they gush so?

I was part of a radio panel Friday in which a fellow commentator was summing up the campaign, and mentioned that there had been no real surprises.

What would have fatally felled or shamed almost any other Canadian politician left Trudeau barely bruised

No surprises, I cried? Learning that the sitting PM has worn blackface at least three times that he knows of, most recently when he was a 29-year-old teacher — that wasn’t surprising?