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It may be tough to reach back to the political landscape in the middle of 2011, but pretty much everyone thought the Liberals were basically done. They had just come off a huge, historic drubbing in the polls and Jack Layton’s NDP looked like it could move in as the opposition.

Well, everyone thought that except for the creators of 2011’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a game produced in Montreal by Square-Enix.

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Deus Ex showed a future world 20 years in the future (16 now) where people live as augmented cyborgs, a giant super city looms over Hong Kong … and Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister.

Honestly, in 2011 that last one felt like the most unrealistic of those three.

Near the end of the game, you pick up an email indicating that the Liberals have come back into power, and that Justin Trudeau is now the Prime Minister of Canada. And that his wife is a bit of a diva. What isn’t clear is why she would be staying at the Chateau Laurier instead of 24 Sussex. Maybe Trudeau finally allowed the much-needed renovations on the house he grew up in.