Cohen: An Albertan's scorn for Trudeau didn't make him go away

Six years ago, I ran into a prominent Conservative at one of those boring diplomatic receptions in Ottawa. He was unusually animated that day, as if shaken by some biblical reordering of the natural universe, like an earthquake or volcano, threatening the end of the world. Then again, given his Vesuvian anger, it could have been all those things.
A few days earlier, on April 13, 2013, Justin Trudeau had become leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. For my friend, this seemed a great abnormality,