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SASKATOON, SASK.

Wherever Justin Trudeau sets foot in this country, it seems someone wants to thrust their child into his arms.

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Somewhere at a parade in Vancouver, outside a rally in downtown Montreal, somewhere in some corner of this vast nation, a parent is waiting in the wings, ready to hand over their infant to the Liberal leader.

It happened again Wednesday at a farmer’s market in Regina. A young mom presented her baby daughter to Trudeau and he dutifully cradled the child, rocking it as the cellphones and video cameras captured the moment.

This is politics, a 43-year-old man holding a stranger’s adorable baby in the middle of a fawning crowd on an unbearably hot morning in August. As long as there have been babies and politicians, it would seem, the two have been natural allies. The politician provides the child much-needed warmth and cajoling while the baby humanizes the politician, allowing him to appear slightly less power-driven and sociopathic.

