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Canada: Trudeau's cannabis candour part of Liberals' transparency push Joan Bryden StarPhoenix Sunday 25 Aug 2013 His willingness to confess his past proclivity for puffing pot is part of a deliberate strategy to brand the Liberal leader as a different kind of politician - one who's open and transparent to a fault, even when it might be more politic to dissemble. It's a calculated risk that could pay big dividends or blow up in his face, Liberal insiders acknowledge. But he's determined to make transparency a trademark of his leadership. His voluntary admission last week that he took a pull on a joint at a dinner party three years ago - while he was an MP - wasn't the first example of Trudeau's potentially perilous frankness and it won't be the last. During the leadership contest that crowned him last spring, Trudeau voluntarily disclosed all his sources of income, including his inheritance from his late father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, and more than $1 million earned on the public speaking circuit. The fact that he continued to accept hefty speaking fees from charitable groups and educational institutions after being elected as an MP in 2008, sparked sufficient public backlash that he eventually offered to refund any group that felt it hadn't got its money's worth. In the end, none took him up on the offer. Liberals are gambling the appeal of Trudeau's candour will outweigh any concerns about his behaviour. "It's the type of leadership that (Canadians) have been waiting for," Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc wrote last week in a blog on the party's website as the pot controversy raged. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Trudeau+cannabis+candour+part+Liberals+transparency+push/8832778/story.html
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