Carissa Wiens
On voting day for Canadaâs federal election in the fall of 2015, someone told me to vote Liberal because âJustinâs hot.â I was taken by surprise because, up until that point, it had never occurred to me that firstly, Trudeau was quite pretty, and secondly, that a political leader could be attractive; I thought those spaces were only reserved for
The Bachelor contestants and James Bond movies. After watching Bush and Harper be state leaders for many of my early formative years, the idea of a beautiful person in charge seemed very foreign. But as Iâm constantly at home, watching the news more, and scrolling through Obamaâs Instagram nonstop, Iâve now come to terms that yes, a political leader who is much older than myself can certainly be very attractive.Â