I think the Liberals are missing a great marketing opportunity in response.
How about “Justin Trudeau: a cut above the rest?”
Sir John A. Macdonald was our first Prime Minister and held office for 19 years. His drinking bouts were legendary but he offered the view that people preferred him drunk to George Brown sober. In the same vein, he would presumably proclaim that the country preferred John A. with long curly hair to George Brown neatly trimmed.
Mackenzie King was Prime Minister for over 21 years and was a master of equivocation when trying to manage difficult situations. He tried to soothe concerns about the possible imposition of conscription in World War Two by suggesting “conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.” On the subject of hair, he might have offered “Grecian Formula if necessary, but not necessarily Grecian Formula.”
Pierre Trudeau held office for 15 and ½ years. Famous for declaring that the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation,” there seems little doubt that he would also have insisted that “the state has no business in the hair salons of the nation.”
What about our current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper? Given his closed, top-down style of governing, one could almost imagine him saying: “A directive from the PMO will require all members of the Cabinet to follow my example and leave no hair out of place. I’m not comfortable with anything unruly.”