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When Jo looked at the Hugos in what should have been a Hugo-nominated series of articles on Tor.com, she looked outside the works nominated for other choices the voters could have made. I am more interesting in how the winners stand up against the other nominees now that enough time has passed that we can look back dispassionately. The first thing I noticed when I put this list together is
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I will give Justin Trudeau this: at least he's not a blatant torture-justifying, Iraq-invasion-supporting, war-crime-dismissing two-faced American carpetbagger and I'd be more comfortable with him as a potential PM than I was with Iggie.

But is Justin the right man to lead the Liberals, at one time better known than the SoCreds and the Ballot-Eating Party combined, out of their seemingly endless dark age?

Is the problem that Liberals have not come to terms with the fact they are no longer one of Big Two parties, that they expect broad support as their birthright? Or is turning to Justin just part of the same creative malaise that sees film companies turning to remakes in the hope of salvation in the form of familiar brands?

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