Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Yet another woke Western leader has fallen. After the resignations of Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, Nicola Sturgeon (quickly followed by Humza Yousaf) in Scotland, and the impending end of the Biden presidency in the U.S., Canada’s ultra-liberal PM is about to go too.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he will resign as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, temporarily staying on as PM until his party chooses a successor. Speaking in Ottawa on Monday, Trudeau said he was standing down because parliament “has been paralysed for months” and he could not lead his party into the next election due to having to fight “internal battles.”

I spend too much time hating Trudeau but there is little I can do to resist.

Canada is quickly descending into failed state territory as we approach the three-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy.

It has a government lacking in democratic legitimacy. Its governing party is by some polling measures the least popular in the country’s history. Its ruling party lacks the key constitutional requirement of holding the confidence of the House of Commons. Its leader has lost the moral right to govern, even among its own elected MPs.

On Jan. 19, 2023, then-New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern stunned her country by announcing her resignation.

She’d been in office for just five years, and was only two years removed from a massive landslide majority. But the pandemic had taken a toll, on both her (politically) and the country. Her Labour Party had fallen behind the centre-right National Party in the polls.

The outgoing Canadian prime minister was a ‘progressive’ fraud and a liar. History will judge him harshly.

Watching Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce that he was quitting on a chilly Monday morning in Ottawa, I was reminded of the moment when battered prize fighter, Roberto Duran, raised his hands in a boxing ring and said: “No mas [No more].”

It was a merciful and predictable denouement to an unexpected political career that had begun with promise and expectations and has ended engulfed by rejection and recriminations.

On Jan. 6, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he was stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. This is a big step that for some time has been greatly longed for by the vast majority of Canadians who can no longer tolerate him. But the significance of this move can only be understood in the details.

Trudeau was facing a no-confidence vote brought by the Conservatives and slated for Jan. 27 when parliament was scheduled to go back into session. But before making his announcement, Trudeau asked Governor General Mary Simon to prorogue parliament for 11 weeks until March 24 so the no-confidence vote could no longer happen. This is the longest that parliament has ever been prorogued in Canadian history. Parliament must meet by the end of March because the government will run out of money without a new budget by then.

A dozen years ago, Justin Trudeau’s first speech as an official Liberal leadership candidate in Calgary seemed to extend an olive branch to Alberta’s oil and gas sector.

“It is wrong to use our natural wealth to divide Canadians against one another, it was the wrong way to govern in Canada in the past,” the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau told the crowd at the Dashmesh Culture Centre in October 2012.

Among the frontrunners to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister are his onetime babysitter, a former Bank of England governor and an ex-minister whose own shock resignation foreshadowed Trudeau’s demise.

Trudeau, 53, announced he would step down as Liberal leader on Monday morning, citing the paralysis that has gripped the Canadian parliament as a key factor in his decision. He will remain in office until a replacement is chosen.

Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign as prime minister has jolted his ailing Liberal party, kicking off a leadership race that could determine the future – or the demise – of Canada’s “natural governing party”.

On a frigid Monday morning, Trudeau said that while “every bone in my body tells me to fight”, a procedural standstill in parliament, as well as his dismal polling numbers, meant there was no path forward to contest a fourth term as leader.

His decision to step away from a job he has held for nearly a decade comes as the party’s political fortunes are in freefall, suffering the loss of key political strongholds in recent byelections and the abdication of prominent cabinet ministers.

The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada—or, at least, as the leader of the Liberal Party, until a new leader is chosen, which will amount to the same thing—took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa. It was a very Canadian setting, with the soon-departing figure of the still young Trudeau wearing an overcoat and gloves, and the smoky breath of winter rising from his mouth as he talked. He spoke in French and then in English and back again and, for Canadians abroad, there was something oddly moving in the easy bilingualism of the occasion. Taken as utterly normal in Canada, it still signals a remarkable and too easily taken for granted co-existence of two “founding peoples” that dates back to the early nineteenth century and the country’s beginnings. Canada, from far away, has always seemed the model liberal country, and this multiculturalism—extended since to the many ethnic tiles of the “Canadian mosaic”—is part of it.

With his announced and yet delayed resignation, Justin Trudeau has put Canada in a horrible position. After weeks of seemingly having no one in charge, we now have a lame-duck PM, at the very moment, we need a government with a strong mandate.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he will resign as prime minister and Liberal leader once the party chooses a successor. Trudeau, who was first elected on Oct. 19, 2015, steps down after nearly a decade in power. Here are the key pieces of his political legacy.

Some legacy.

Good take.

"What’s happening in Canadian politics is not happening in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a much broader phenomenon. Call it the great crack-up of the old consensus.

The old consensus held that immigration was an absolute good, with multiculturalism the end goal. Arguments…

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) January 7, 2025