“60 Minutes” is getting skewered by offended Canadians after it mistook actress Kim Cattrall for the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mother Margaret. Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau were separated at the time and divorced in 1983.
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CBS’ 60 Minutes apologized Monday after on Sunday night accidentally misidentifying a young Cattrall as Margaret Trudeau, Justin Trudeau’s mother, during a feature on the Canadian leader ahead of a state visit to Washington, D.C. later this week. His viewpoint is admired by some but not by all. Fellow Canadian Marilynn Oosterhof agrees and writes: “I have to apologize for our “light weight” PM…Canada takes the “prize” – the booby prize for the light weight”.
The Prime Minister’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Presidential candidates raise billions in financing and court special interests, something the PM said Canada no longer allows.
In a segment about Trudeau, the network aired a photo of the 59-year-old actress with Trudeau’s father, Pierre, who was the country’s prime minister from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984. “I’m not going to support him either, obviously”, Trudeau told a live forum hosted by the Huffington Post when pressed to condemn the Republican. “It might be nice if they paid a little more attention to the world”, he said blatantly.
When asked if he would condemn the “hateful rhetoric” of Trump at a town hall debate, he replied: ‘I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone that I stand firmly against the politics of division, the politics of fear, the politics of intolerance or hateful rhetoric.
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And it’s only the ninth state dinner given by Obama since he became president in 2008.
