Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

When we here at the National Citizens Coalition launched our leading third-party ‘Fire Trudeau’ election advocacy campaign in the early days of 2024, the messaging we chose was in response to a phrase we heard over and over again from supporters and the public.

In 2022, I wrote an essay titled “What is coming next for Canadian churches?” In that essay, as well as in my recent book How We Got Here, I noted that as Canada shifted from being a post-Christian society to an increasingly anti-Christian one, Christian churches and organizations will inevitably lose tax-exempt or charitable status…

An unprecedented 69 percent of Canadians say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should step down, according to a new survey. And while some have an opinion on who would be the best person to replace Trudeau as Liberal leader, most are unsure who it could be.

OTTAWA — Canada’s Liberals are done with Justin Trudeau and there will be no more “please” or “thank-you’s” as they work to hustle him out the door.

The federal party lacks a mechanism to oust its leaders, so lawmakers are trying a range of tactics with Trudeau. Discontented backbenchers had hoped he’d notice the polls and take them personally. When that didn’t work, they initiated a quiet revolt and behind closed doors presented him with a letter encouraging him to leave.

Justin Trudeau will head to British Columbia for a ski vacation after spending Christmas in Ottawa. He shouldn’t expect a warm welcome in BC. In fact, as the latest Leger Poll shows, there aren’t many places that Trudeau would get a warm welcome because, to put it bluntly, Canadians are done with him.

As Parliamentarians of all stripes head home for the holidays, their hands are likely full of gifts (maybe a bottle of Speaker’s Scotch or Canadian whisky?) and their heads full of questions about what will happen to the federal government.

They aren’t the only ones, as Canadians are left puzzling about what fate awaits the Trudeau government in the next few weeks.

During my days as an equity analyst and now as a portfolio manager I am often asked what the most important factors are when investing. I would have to say the answer is the quality of the management team in charge and the environment they are operating in — you can have an Olympic gold medal swimmer, and it won’t make a difference if there are sharks in the pool.

Having managed to get through last week without losing the prime ministership, Justin Trudeau has successfully kicked the ball to touch. Parliament reopens on January 27th, which makes the end of January the earliest that he cold be called to account.

At some point soon after in the weeks following however, one of the Opposition parties will have the opportunity to introduce a motion of non-confidence in his government, and precipitate an election.

As the Trudeau government enters the second week of a very public internal feud, a new Leger survey finds that the scandal hasn’t done all that much to hurt its poll numbers — but that might be because Liberal support has already hit rock bottom.

Never in the field of human conflict have so many been PO’d by so few.