Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he would resign was the last card that Canada’s deeply unpopular prime minister, who had set his party on course to lose a national election, had left to play.

The political levers he has pulled will give Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party a chance to reinvent itself without him. But they will also leave Canada weakened as it braces for President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has threatened the country with tariffs that could cripple its economy.

It appears to be a gamble that Mr. Trudeau is willing to take.

He’s a hateful narcissist.

Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, said he’s considering entering the race to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister.

Carney said he’s “encouraged and honored by the support that I’ve already been hearing” from Liberal lawmakers and supporters “who want us to move forward with positive change and a winning economic plan.”

“I’ll be considering this decision closely with my family over the coming few days,” Carney, 59, said in a statement emailed by a spokesperson.

At 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 6, 2025, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally put the country out of its misery and resigned.

Sort of.

“I intend to resign as party leader and prime minister after the party selects its next leader in a robust, competitive nationwide process,” he announced. And how long will that take? Over two months, by the sound of it. Because prior to announcing his resignation, the prime minister also asked the Governor General to prorogue Parliament until March 24.

Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he would step down as Canada’s prime minister was expected after he faced political struggles in recent months, but it nonetheless represented a stunning fall for a leader once so beloved that his diplomatic meetings were marked by fans lining up to take selfies with him.

Here is a look at his political rise and fall, which has played out over the past 25 years.

The much-anticipated resignation of Prime Minister Trudeau has happened. Sort of.

There is still a lot of ambiguity about what Trudeau’s resignation means and when he will officially step down as party leader. He stated he would leave when the Liberal Party selects a new leader.

Does that mean an interim leader? If so, that could happen as early as Jan. 8. Trudeau still has a caucus meeting this week and members could demand he steps aside sooner rather than later so they can appoint someone to fill the role during a leadership race.

Justin Trudeau’s announcement this morning demonstrated once again that he is never at fault, and that his own interests take precedence over the good of Canada, and Canadians. While today wasn’t the official end of Justin Trudeau’s political career, you can see it from here.

While I personally think it would have been preferable to see the Liberal leader repudiated in a general election, ultimately any mechanism which ends the tenure of the most divisive, ineffectual and destructive prime minister this country has ever seen, should be seized and celebrated.

After nearly a decade in Canada’s highest office, far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, leaving behind a legacy of ruin and chaos.

“I intend to resign as party leader [and] as prime minister after the [Liberal Party] selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process,” Trudeau said during a Monday press conference. “This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”

Donald Trump says Justin Trudeau is stepping down because he was scared about the U.S. president-elect’s proposed tariffs.

JUST IN: Donald Trump takes a victory lap, once again calls on Canada to become the 51st state of the United States after Justin Trudeau announced his resignation.

"Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State." pic.twitter.com/XyYW7wktHx

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 6, 2025

Justin Trudeau rose to power promising to unite the country under his leadership after growing public mistrust of the sitting government. He leaves office nine years later with an even angrier public and the majority of Canadians – including his own party – increasingly united against him.

Despite plummeting polling, a spate of by-election losses and the exit of a quarter of his front bench, he had been adamant that he was still the one best placed to lead the Liberals into the next election. Now, with just months before the next federal election, he has left his party little time to regroup.

He came to office with the same message and momentum as Barack Obama. Nine years on, that’s a distant memory

In one corner of the boxing ring, a lanky-looking Justin Trudeau, 6ft 2in, shifted nervously on his feet. On the other stood Patrick “Brazz Knuckles” Brazeau, a heavily tattooed Conservative senator and former naval reservist with a black belt in karate.

Going into the 2012 charity fight, Trudeau, an MP for a small district in Montreal, was considered the underdog, with bookies giving 3-1 odds against.

Trudeau, however, defeated his rival in three rounds.

A teary-eyed and weepy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the coward’s way out today, denying Canadians the opportunity to cast direct judgment on his leadership at the ballot box.

It was inevitable. Trudeau II has been a zombie prime minister for well more than a year now, and it has been glaringly obvious to all but himself and the most delusional of TruAnons. The pressure was overwhelming, but it was allowed to take this long — leaving Canada dangerously exposed at a moment of national crisis — because the even more cowardly Liberal caucus refused to do the obvious thing and remove him. Instead, they released anonymously signed, kindly worded letters “asking” Trudeau to “consider” maybe, eventually, retiring.

The dramatic political demise of Justin Trudeau, the long-serving Canadian premier once hailed as the poster boy of global liberalism, makes him the latest casualty of the pronounced shift to the Right taking place in many Western democracies.

The ability of Mr Trudeau, an increasingly unpopular figure among the Canadian electorate, to remain in power was always going to be a tough call after Donald Trump rode the populist wave sweeping the US political landscape to secure a second term in the White House during last year’s presidential election contest.

Let the political games begin.

With Justin Trudeau’s decision to step down, the unofficial race to replace him is on.

By convention in Canada’s parliamentary system of democracy, whoever leads the party that holds the confidence of the House of Commons becomes prime minister.

So the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Had Prime Minister Justin Trudeau done what his caucus, members of his party, the polls, the Canadian people, his horoscope, and that guy screaming obscenities outside the Winners at Parliament Hill all suggested six months ago and stepped down then, there might have been a way for the Liberal Party to avoid total annihilation. The by-election in the St. Paul’s riding in Toronto back in June was about as clear a sign as the electorate is capable of delivering outside of a normal election that there is no way back – not without a change at the top – but Mr. Trudeau, nevertheless, persisted.

"Justin Trudeau: The Fall of a Globalist Puppet"

"I intend to resign as Prime Minister after the Party selects its next Leader…" – Justin Trudeau.

The man who betrayed Canadian values, divided a nation, and left a legacy of failure. Trudeau, the WORST Prime Minister in… pic.twitter.com/4hLow83lmI

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 6, 2025