Rolling Stone magazineâs glowing cover story on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contains some eyebrow-raising errors about Canada, including a mistake that identified the RCMP as the âRoyal Canadian Mountain Police.â
The is the latest in a series of gushing cover stories about Trudeau in American publications, following on the heels of other features in magazines such as Vogue and Delta Airlinesâ in-flight magazine Sky.
Rolling Stone writer Stephen Rodrick compares Trudeau in favourable terms to U.S. President Donald Trump, citing his personal and political styles in sharp contrast to the POTUS.
However, the story also contains some glaring errors and occasionally bizarre descriptions.
âFor Trudeau, listening is seducing,â one part of the story reads.
Elsewhere, the author favourably compares Trudeauâs appearance to that of Trump.
âHis hair is a color found in nature,â the article says (as though Trumpâs flaxen head of hair is so strange). It also cites Trudeauâs partial Scottish ancestry in the way he âswats away Trump-baiting questions with a look that says, âNot today, laddie.ââ
Och aye, lads and lassies, but thatâs just the beginning. The more obvious errors include misidentifying Trudeauâs governing Liberals as the âLiberty Party,â throwing a hyphen in the middle of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjanâs name (âSaj-janâ) and misidentifying the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the âRoyal Canadian Mountain Police.â
The story also says Trudeauâs birth on Dec. 25, 1971, was hailed as âKing of the North front-page news,â when it was actually overshadowed by an Air Canada hijacking in Cuba.