Trudeauesque

English

Etymology

Trudeau +‎ -esque

Adjective

Trudeauesque (comparative more Trudeauesque, superlative most Trudeauesque)

1. Involving the policies or values associated with Pierre Elliott Trudeau, especially those of social justice and multiculturalism.
   • 2006, Andrew Stark, The Limits of Medicine, page 152:

     Will it live on in those who never harbored the condition but who – in the Trudeauesque spirit of “embrac[ing] any style, cultural trope, or image of beauty that attracts [them] regardless of its origin" - can and might preserve many of the group's tradditions?

   • 2013, Barry L. Strayer, Canada's Constitutional Revolution, page 93:

     There were definite Trudeauesque assertions of the importance of fundamental individual rights, popular sovereignty, reduction of regional disparities, respect for multiculturalism, and the implicit denial of the two nation theory.

   • 2018 December 1, David McWilliams, “Sanders is building a new political movement and could run again”, in Irish Times:

     Vermont is a tolerant, wealthy, almost Trudeauesque corner of the US.