Excellent analysis Janice. After his mother's flight Justin strove to become an developed woman. Men need intact mothers in order to be initiated by the men. One indigenous group has a ritual where the boy is asked by the mother to go to the well and bring her a cup of water. The boy goes and gets the water and returns and promptly throws the water in the mother's face. He then goes to be with the men. Many mothers understand this. The sense that their growing son is insulting them in order to carve out his own masculine identity. Many mothers don't. And some, like Trudeau's mother don't stick around to be insulted leaving the boy in a state of perpetual youth.
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