{"id":20206,"date":"2016-04-24T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20206"},"modified":"2016-04-24T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T14:58:09","slug":"justin-trudeau-just-another-quantum-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20206","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau: Just Another Quantum Politician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2016\/04\/23\/Trudeau-Another-Quantum-Politician\/\">Justin Trudeau: Just Another Quantum Politician?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"tagline\">Like many other world leaders, PM shows how to be true and false at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2016\/04\/23\/SaudiDeal610px.jpg\" alt=\"Saudi-Deal\" width=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"photo-caption\">\n<p>Cartoon by Greg Perry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block block-article_related\">\n<div class=\"block-inner\">\n<p class=\"title\">It was great theatre: The good-looking Canadian prime minister, standing before a blackboard full of equations, taking a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rRmv4uD2RQ4\">spitball question<\/a>\u00a0about quantum computing and belting it out of the park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Never mind that it was probably a setup, with a reporter primed to ask Justin Trudeau about a topic he&#8217;d just been intensively briefed on. If nothing else, it showed the former drama teacher is a quick study who doesn&#8217;t need to read his talking points off a sheet of paper like most of our parliamentary clods.<\/p>\n<p>The online media went into a predictable tizzy: Not only cute, not only a boxing punchmeister, not only a good feminist husband and dad with six-pack abs and a cool tattoo, but he also does standup comedy about quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau&#8217;s not the first Canadian to startle audiences with such wit and fluency.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dashan\">Mark Rowswell<\/a>, a tall white guy, went to China to improve his Chinese. He got so good that he turned up on Chinese TV in 1988 as &#8220;Dashan,&#8221; doing a comedy shtick called crosstalk, swapping rapid-fire gags and puns with a native Chinese speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Half a billion Chinese TV-watchers fell out of their chairs laughing &#8212; not because he was bad, but because he was really good. If anything, he spoke better putonghua &#8212; common speech &#8212; than they did. Rowswell became an instant star and made a tidy fortune appearing on TV and opening new shopping malls. China fell in love with him because unlike most westerners, he&#8217;d taken the trouble to listen to and learn their language and speak it like one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau: Just Another Quantum Politician? Like many other world leaders, PM shows how to be true and false at the same time. Cartoon by Greg Perry. It was great theatre: The good-looking Canadian prime minister, standing before a blackboard full of equations, taking a\u00a0spitball question\u00a0about quantum computing and belting it out of the park. 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