Toddler aces cabinet quiz in too cute YouTube video

A two-year-old from New Brunswick is putting most of us to shame by easily naming the new members of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.

Sophia Popalyar of Moncton can rhyme off our new prime minister, along with several of his key cabinet ministers, including John McCallum, Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould. The little girl, who turned two in August, is seen reciting the names from memory on a YouTube video posted last week by her father.

Who is Canada’s new minister of transportation, her father Fawad Popalyar asks? Sophia knows that it’s former astronaut Marc Garneau. How about the minister of foreign affairs? She answers Stéphane Dion, the former Liberal leader.

Sophia comes by her political precociousness honestly. Her father and mother both work for the government; he with Citizenship and Immigration Canada and she with Health Canada. In all, it took the toddler about a week to learn the names of 15 of the new cabinet ministers, her father told the Toronto Star.

Several YouTube commenters admitted that they probably couldn’t match Sophia’s feat. “How many of us could do this?” wrote Victoria Jodoin in the comments under the video. “I sure cannot.”

And political insiders themselves were also impressed by Sophia’s memory for political facts. Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett retweeted a link to the video, and Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford wrote “As my 4 yr old would say…for real?! #toocute (and clever!)”

But with all the accomplished ministers to choose from in the current cabinet, Sophia has still managed to pick a clear favourite. When asked by her father in the video she names Maryam Monsef, the minister of democratic institutions and Canada’s first Afghan-born cabinet minister.

“I’m really impressed too,” Monsef wrote on Twitter about the video. “Haven’t met her or her family, but thanks to her dad @popalyar for sharing the video.”

The Popalyar family themselves emigrated from Afghanistan to Canada, where Sophia was born, and are passing on political and Canadian knowledge.

The video already has 16,400 views on YouTube, but it’s not Sophia’s first foray into Internet fame. Her channel Sophia the First also has a video of the toddler singing “Roar” by Katy Perry.