If Tom Mulcair had won in October, the United States might still have had a White House State Dinner in his honour. But you imagine that the response wouldn't be quite at the level we've seen in the last few days with Trudeaumania 2.0.
Trevor Noah and "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" had a bit of fun with that notion Thursday night. Noah and his team took the superficial elements of Justin Trudeau's attractiveness and applied them to his actual policies.
They played the "60 Minutes" clip of Trudeau going through all his previous jobs, cuddling with pandas at the Toronto Zoo, the boxing match where he defeated Patrick Brazeau, and finally, how Trudeau accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees.
The visual is Noah throwing red panties in the air and then eventually a red bra.
Noah was fascinated with the fact that Google is now autocompleting "move to" with "move to Canada."
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With the State Dinner, he noted that a "Canada Party is respectful and ends promptly at 10:30 on the dot." That might seem like a stereotype but Canadians seriously know how to party with a 2-4.
Noah did take a shot at the differences in education. The screen listed rankings based on math and science at age 15 with Canada at number 10 and the USA all the way down at number 28.
"Are Canadian voters just electing people straight out of The Expendables?"
Noah showed the shot of Trudeau and Brazeau side-by-side at the weigh-in before the charity fight. His reaction about Brazeau was that he should be guarding the door at a strip club.
Canadians know that senators are not elected, and that Brazeau has been a disgrace on several levels in his time in the Canadian Senate.
This is only the second time that the newest version of The Daily Show has done a segment on Canada. The show spent a few minutes on the Canadian election last fall. Click here to see that video.
The take on the prime minster's visit to Washington wasn't the only Canadian flavour on The Daily Show this week. Ellen Page was Noah's guest on Tuesday night.
They talked about Page's new show "Gaycation" on Viceland that explores how the LGBTQ community is treated around the world.
While catching up with what Ellen Page is doing is very cool, we miss the interaction with Canada. To be fair, they did mention the brief conversation between current Canadian Ellen Page and former Canadian Ted Cruz, though they didn't mention the Canadian connection.
We didn't expect them to talk about one of her latest films: "Into the Forest" with Evan Rachel Wood from Canadian director Patricia Rozema, though we wish they had mentioned the film.
The previous version of The Daily Show as well as brother show Colbert Report spent a lot of time on Page and her Canadian identity.
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Washington, and Americans interested in Canada this week, let's let Page sum up her fellow Canadians.
"There's a little more camaraderie of spirit, a little less fear, and take care of each other a bit more."
In that interview, Stewart noted that Canadians are "kind, down-to-earth, honest" and had glowing words for Page's home province of Nova Scotia.
"This is not to offend people in Canada who live in other areas, maybe the most beautiful area of Canada. It's pretty gorgeous."
To put you in the mood, here are some Ellen Page stories we've written, including those interviews.
Ellen Page comes out as 'openly Canadian' on Colbert Report
Ellen Page: still a cool Canadian role model
Jon Stewart shares love of Canada with Ellen Page
Nova Scotia (and Ellen Page) in spotlight in technology advertising campaign
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videos and photo credit: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
photo credit: Twitter @JustinTrudeau
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