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Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming dangers.
就加拿大而言，當特魯多就任時，面臨兩大潛在的危險。
First, though his vast, underpopulated country, badly needed more bodies,
首先，盡管他這個地廣人稀的國家，非常需要更多的勞動力
its preferred source for white workers, Europe,
但它首選的白人勞動力來源地歐洲
had just stopped exporting them as it finally recovered from World War II.
卻隨著自身從二戰中恢復過來而停止了勞動力的出口。
The other problem was that Canada's long cold war
另一個問題是加拿大國內的法語群體
between its French and its English communities had just become a hot one.
和英語群體之間的長期冷戰也變成了熱戰
Quebec was threatening to secede,
魁北克威脅著要獨立
and Canadians were actually killing other Canadians over politics.
并且加拿大人在政治上互相傷害
Now, countries face crises all the time. Right? That's nothing special.
國家總是面臨危機，對吧？這沒什么特別的
But Trudeau's genius was to realize that Canada's crisis
但是特魯多的天才之處是意識到加拿大的危機
had swept away all the hurdles that usually block reform.
正好掃清了阻礙改革的所有障礙。
Canada had to open up. It had no choice.
加拿大需要開放，對此它別無選擇
And it had to rethink its identity. Again, it had no choice.
并且它需要重新思考自己的國家形象。而這也是別無選擇的
And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation opportunity to break the old rules and write new ones.
這就給了特魯多一個千載難逢的機會去打破舊規則并書寫新規則
And like all our other heroes, he was smart enough to seize it.
像所有其他的英雄一樣，他聰明地抓住了機會。
