Rolling Stone magazine鈥檚 glowing cover story on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contains some eyebrow-raising errors about Canada, including a mistake that identified the RCMP as the 鈥淩oyal Canadian Mountain Police.鈥�
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 Airlines鈥� 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.
鈥淔or Trudeau, listening is seducing,鈥� one part of the story reads.
Elsewhere, the author favourably compares Trudeau鈥檚 appearance to that of Trump.
鈥淗is hair is a color found in nature,鈥� the article says (as though Trump鈥檚 flaxen head of hair is so strange). It also cites Trudeau鈥檚 partial Scottish ancestry in the way he 鈥渟wats away Trump-baiting questions with a look that says, 鈥楴ot today, laddie.鈥欌��
Och aye, lads and lassies, but that鈥檚 just the beginning. The more obvious errors include misidentifying Trudeau鈥檚 governing Liberals as the 鈥淟iberty Party,鈥� throwing a hyphen in the middle of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan鈥檚 name (鈥淪aj-jan鈥�) and misidentifying the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the 鈥淩oyal Canadian Mountain Police.鈥�
The story also says Trudeau鈥檚 birth on Dec. 25, 1971, was hailed as 鈥淜ing of the North front-page news,鈥� when it was actually overshadowed by an Air Canada hijacking in Cuba.
