Justin Trudeau has ranked first on Maclean’s Canadian Power List heading into 2021.
“Who had more power in Canada in 2020, and was less inhibited about wielding it, than Justin Trudeau? Nobody. Nobody else comes close,” says the publication.
The list includes activists, politicians, media influencers, athletes, and business personalities.
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Maclean’s said it “canvassed the landscape” for Canadians with qualities that represent power in a time of transformative change. “By dint of their actions, words or character, they force us to watch, listen and learn,” says the publication. “They are moving the needle in their chosen fields, and in many cases, the wider world.”
The Power List says Trudeau was responsible for keeping people home and safe throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Maclean’s says total federal spending doubled in 2020, which has never happened in the country’s history outside of wartime.
“The central fact of Justin Trudeau’s place in the nation’s life was that he had and used power on a scale nobody in the country could match,” summed up Maclean’s blurb about the prime minister.
The rest of Canada’s Power List unravels as follows:
- Justin Trudeau
- Tobias Lütke
- Joyce Echaquan
- Mario Dion
- Bonnie Henry
- Chrystia Freeland
- Doug Ford
- Sandy Hudson
- Jerry Dias
- GTA Voter
- François Legault
- Theresa Tam
- Tiff Macklem
- Guy Lepage
- Retired Supreme Court justices
- Wes Hall
- David Mulroney
- Erin O’Toole
- Linda Hasenfratz
- Chief Woos/Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and matriarchs
- Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Gid7ahl-Gudsllaay Lalaxaaygans
- Michelle Rempel Garner
- Michael Sabia
- James and Louise Temerty
- Jason Kenney
- David Fisman
- Cindy Blackstock
- Akim Aliu
- Elliot Page
- Vina Nadjibulla
- Annamie Paul
- Jesse Wente
- Chamath Palihapitiya
- Murray Sinclair
- The Nova Scotia shooting inquiry panel: Leanne J. Fitch, Michael MacDonald and Kim Stanton
- Jagmeet Singh
- John Horgan
- Sean Speer
- Donna Strickland
- Leah Gazan
- The new newsmakers
- Masai Ujiri
- Philippe J. Fournier
- Michelle Douglas
- Bianca Wylie
- Teara Fraser
- Carys Massarella
- Desmond Cole
- Alfred Waugh
- Robert Fife
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