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  • After becoming the second-youngest Canadian prime minister in history,

  • Justin Trudeau appointed 15 women to his cabinet

  • Because it's 2015

  • He welcomed 25,000 Syrian refugees into Canada

  • Welcome to your new home

  • And now, he’s the first Canadian PM in nearly 20 years

  • to be invited to a White House state dinner

  • So what's the catch?

  • What did you think of our Prime Minister?

  • He's so hot!

  • A lot of people think Trudeau is the catch

  • He gives me chills

  • And he makes me cold

  • Obvious good looks aside, Trudeau has set an exciting new liberal precedent in Canada

  • He's pro-choice

  • I don’t think that it’s up to legislators to dictate what a woman has to do with her body

  • He's pro-marijuana

  • I think five or six times in my life that I've taken a puff

  • He just announced a woman will be on Canada’s next bank note,

  • and he's a feminist

  • We shouldn't be afraid of the word 'feminist'

  • Men and women should use it to describe themselves anytime they want

  • He's young and ambitious

  • and 6'2''

  • and

  • but critics say he can’t actually back it all up

  • You're too young

  • You're inexperienced

  • That you don’t have what it takes to do this job

  • The way I respond to it is by ignoring it

  • Others say his only real credential is being the son of a former prime minister

  • Despite being in the public eye for so long, he manages to seem normal

  • I was a snowboard instructor

  • I was a bouncer at a nightclub

  • I was a white water river guide for many years

  • Regardless of political preferences,

  • Trudeau comes off as, well

  • cool

  • He's boxed

  • and stripped for charity,

  • he acted in a war documentary,

  • he has a tattoo,

  • he hangs with pandas

  • He even has a party trick where he falls down stairs

  • The U.S. has Trudeau to the north

  • and President Enrique Peña Nieto to the south

  • Basically, North America has two fresh, artisanal buns,

  • and we're just hoping the meat we get isn't

  • old steak

  • So here's to you

  • Unlike other Justins from Canada

  • Trudeau is one that everybody can get behind

  • Keep following,

  • keep liking

  • and stay tuned for what happens next

  • This is your Mic Check

After becoming the second-youngest Canadian prime minister in history,

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