Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once considered quitting politics long before Monday.

On the day he announced his coming resignation, Trudeau wrote his own first draft of history. He told the nation he is a fighter who never backs away from a fight — that he wouldn’t be stepping down if it weren’t for his internal caucus struggles that eclipsed his ability to stay on.

In fact, in early 2023, months before Trudeau publicly revealed his separation from his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the prime minister seriously weighed leaving office, the Star has learned.

Transport Minister Anita Anand announced Saturday afternoon she will not run in the Liberal Party’s ongoing leadership contest to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, nor will she seek re-election when Canadians next go to the polls.

Anand said in a statement posted to social media she has been “deeply honoured and humbled to serve as Oakville’s Member of Parliament and as member of cabinet.”

Rats galore.

Jean Chrétien: Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S.

Today is my 91st birthday.

It’s an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends. To look back on the life I’ve had the privilege to lead. And to reflect on how much this country we all love so much has grown and changed over the course of the nine decades I’ve been on this Earth.

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Seriously they’re trotting out Mr. Sponsorship Scandal Jean Chretien as some sort of Patriot?

Former B.C. premier Christy Clark’s prospects of winning the federal Liberal leadership race took a hit after she falsely claimed she was never a member of the federal Conservative party.

Ms. Clark, whose B.C. Liberal party was a mix of Liberals and Conservatives, was asked about her past relationship with the Conservatives in an interview with CBC’s radio program The House, which aired Saturday.

Watch Christy Clark get outed in her very big lie on the first day of her campaign to lead the Liberal party.

Perfect, I guess for the Liberals.

Watch this —all of it. pic.twitter.com/dl6DOBiBrz

— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) January 11, 2025

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is expected to formally announce his bid to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau late next week, a source close to his campaign told CBC News.

The source, who spoke on the condition they not be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said Carney has more than 30 MPs backing him. The source suggested he picked up support after Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc closed the door on leadership earlier this week.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday he set the stage for a leadership race in the Liberal Party to replace him. The winner of that contest will become the party leader and Canada’s 24th prime minister. These are exciting times in Canadian politics but not completely unprecedented.

A little late to the game, perhaps, but accurate nonetheless, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria noted over the weekend that progressive politicians are in retreat throughout the West. His comments came roughly two weeks before Donald Trump’s scheduled inauguration after an election campaign that he and his populist-right Republican Party handily won, despite expectations of a close election believed to slightly favour Kamala Harris and the Democrats. Instead, Americans turned out to repudiate what Zakaria rightly recognized as the arrogance and authoritarianism of the left.

There are ways to make decisions and there are the actual decisions one makes. The former is about procedures, the ‘how’ questions. The latter is about substantive calls, the ‘what’ questions. Now it only takes a moment’s thought to realise that no method or procedure for making decisions will be perfect. We are fallible, biological creatures. We humans are in the ‘least-bad’ business. And for me, it has long seemed that the least-bad way to make political decisions was to let the numbers count. Majoritarianism. Democracy in other words, at least in its old-fashioned sense of counting everyone equally and voting. (Human rights lawyer types and top judges have these past couple of decades tried to redefine democracy so that it includes a hefty substantive component, namely that these elites also approve of the decisions made – and of course the judges don’t put it that way; they talk in terms of a decision having to be in keeping with ‘the rule of law’ or ‘sufficiently rights-respecting’ or some such.) But the point is any procedure will sometimes misfire. Majoritarianism misfires, hence Winston Churchill’s famous quip that democracy is the worst form of government… except for everything else. But then, too, letting a bunch of unelected judges have a veto over majoritarianism misfires too. No option is – make that can be – perfect. You pick your poison.

The Liberal Party of Canada’s upcoming leadership race is shaping up to be an absolute dumpster fire, with questionable due diligence and a rushed timeline that puts party interests ahead of the nation’s well-being. The party’s decision to maintain free membership and lax verification processes raises serious concerns about the integrity of the voting process.

OTTAWA — It’s not me, it’s you.

That was the message Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had for Jake Tapper during his Thursday afternoon interview on CNN when the PM was asked about his historically-low approval rating.

In Washington to attend the state funeral of President Jimmy Carter, Trudeau rebuffed Tapper’s implications that his impending defeat — much like President-elect Donald Trump’s recent election win — signals voters have had quite enough of left-wing governments and left-wing policy.

Trudeau appearing on CNN to talk tariffs is so quintessentially Trudeau

If you want to speak to the President and his supporters, you go on Fox. Doug Ford knows this

But if you want to virtue signal to the like-minded and make it seem like you’re doing something, you go on CNN https://t.co/QEhQsgPmE6

— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) January 9, 2025

Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political career is coming to an end, some of his fans are romanticizing his economic track record. Yet it is indisputable that, under his leadership, the economy sputtered and Canadians, robbed of a decade of growth, were left relatively poorer than their global peers.

Perhaps the best example of this historical revisionism can be found in a fawning column published in the Toronto Star just hours after Trudeau’s resignation. Penned by the paper’s business columnist, David Olive, the article claimed that “Trudeau’s successors will be hard-pressed to improve on his economic track record” as there’s “no arguing Canadians became wealthier while he was in power.”