What to do? You get a selfie.
Jim Godby was on a five-day family camping trip and decided to take a hike in Quebec’s Gatineau Park. Suddenly out of a cave pops Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family. Okay, then.
Godby tells the Toronto Star:
“It was like a 20-foot-wide round hole and Justin (Trudeau) emerged with his family in tow and said, ‘This is the moment of truth; do we stop here or do we carry on?’” said Jim Godby, who was on a five-day camping trip at the park last week with his wife, Arlene, and two kids — Alexander, 13, and Charlotte, 10.
As they went to take a peek inside, Godby heard the familiar voice. That’s when Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and two of their children surfaced in what Godby described as a casual chance encounter that humanized the prime minister.
The cave was one of Ottawa’s “hidden gems” and it reportedly formed after the ice age as glaciers melted, and a stream carved out the marble.
Godby wasn’t dressed to go into to cave, but said the encounter with Trudeau was “really neat” and he got to see a more relaxed and dad-like side of the prime minister who also took a selfie with Godby’s 13-year-old son. He adds that he thinks Trudeau is doing a great job and adds the PM is just a real down-to-earth guy. Literally.