Canada’s PM, Justin Trudeau, got a Gita in 2012
The new Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, received the Bhagavad-gita As It Is from me years ago. I took the opportunity to give Trudeau the book in 2012, while he was being chauffeured in the India Independence Day Parade. The Montreal Hare Krishna devotees were chanting the Hare Krishna mantra and dancing in the parade. When I saw Trudeau, I didn't know he was going to become the next Prime Minister, but I knew that he was influential, because his father had been the previous PM.
I was surprised to see there were no guards to interfere with my approaching him. I called out to him: "Justin!" He turned. I walked right up to the slow-moving vintage sports car and said, "I have a gift for you. Your father received this book from us, and it was used by the kings of India to rule their citizens." He smiled and said, "Thank you."
"Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues." (Bg. 3.21)
Purport: "The king or the executive head of a state, the father and the schoolteacher are all considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. All such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependents; therefore they must be conversant with standard books of moral and spiritual codes."
Your servant,
Gaura Dasa
