Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Susan Delacourt: Earlier this week, for non-column purposes, you and I were chatting about the fire hose of news in what was supposed to be the post-Thanksgiving “break.” Justin Trudeau is facing a caucus mutiny, a diplomatic blow-up with India and, let’s not forget, the all-day testimony before the foreign-interference inquiry. Assuming that nothing else explodes into the headlines next week, maybe we should start with this question: which one of those things is going to cause Trudeau the most headaches when the Commons returns from the so-called break?

OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau reinvented Canadian politics when he was elected prime minister at the age of 43 in 2015, with a brand built around his good looks and energy.

Almost a decade later, Trudeau is fighting for political survival. About two-thirds of the public disapproves of his performance. His Liberal Party is losing once-safe seats, and some members of his caucus say Trudeau needs to go. And the Trudeau brand is now stubbornly unpopular as Canadians say they are simply tired of him.

“He was youthful, sexy, and you know, Mr. Selfie,” said Andrew Perez, a strategic-communications adviser and Liberal Party supporter. “Now there’s a disdain for Trudeau, even among very progressive people.”

Does Justin Trudeau smell a whiff of grapeshot?

After a disastrous summer for the Liberals that saw two byelection defeats in historically red seats, and constant rumblings of dissatisfaction within caucus, the prime minister has held firm.

There have been no major cabinet shuffles (as of yet), no grand policy announcements, and no real changes to speak of.

Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe thinks the writing’s on the wall for the federal Liberals — which is why no one is clamouring to replace beleaguered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of the next election.

In an interview with Mercedes Stephenson that aired Sunday on The West Block, Duceppe said he’s heard from Liberals in Quebec who are unhappy with Trudeau’s leadership and the party’s electoral prospects. But with no one waiting in the wings to chart a new course, there’s little that can be done.

I can’t think of a single LPC front bencher who isn’t an inveterate liar. The entire Liberal caucus is inclined to lie on any matter large or small.

Much as I hope the LPC will lose every seat rest assured Toronto will still vote for them especially if Junior remains.

On one summer night in Ontario, a Canadian Sikh activist received a panicked call from his wife: police had come to the family home and warned her that his life was at risk.

Two weeks later and thousands of kilometers away, a gunman in the province of British Columbia filmed himself firing a volley of bullets into the home of a prominent Indo-Canadian singer as two vehicles burned in the driveway.

Both instances – together with a string of arsons, extortion schemes, drive-by shootings and at least two murders – are now believed to be part of a wide-ranging and violent campaign of intimidation across Canada orchestrated by India’s government.

I have no love for Modi and his Christian murdering Hindus but why is Trudeau harboring Sikh terrorists?

“He [Prime Minister Justin Trudeau] has made sure that the bilateral relation with India only goes downward, spiralling down,” said expelled Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, before going on to cast doubt on the political independence of the RCMP. pic.twitter.com/FbrZVk38uA

— CTV Question Period (@ctvqp) October 20, 2024

This is an attempt to understand the life and mindset of Justin Trudeau, as it is in the Fall of 2024.

Born to the manor as the oldest of three sons of a Prime Minister, the challenges and expectations of an aloof intellectual father and a troubled mother are distinctive and difficult. From birth, a normal life was unlikely.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has grabbed headlines yet again. This time for celebrating the legalization of weed in his country.

Amid escalating diplomatic tensions between India and Canada, Trudeau is fast losing favor among Canadian citizens and is being criticized for his recent social media post commemorating the sixth anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada.

You also took away the dream of home ownership for millions of Canadians. pic.twitter.com/zJ4f7Y0oZs

— Johnny Seabass (@PopeSeabass) October 17, 2024

Nine years ago this fall, the leaders of the three major federal parties at the time gathered on a stage in Toronto for a debate on foreign policy. The resulting discussion seems a bit quaint now.

The topics covered — Canada’s contribution to the fight against the Islamic State, a refugee crisis in Syria, the Conservative government’s anti-terror laws — were not exactly trifling. But India received only a glancing reference. Donald Trump, who had announced his candidacy for president of the United States four months earlier, wasn’t mentioned at all. Neither was China.

Literally and figuratively, it was a different time.

Sure was a different time, no one imagined Trudeau would turn out to be a political arsonist. A shitty PM?. Sure but not the crazy person he has revealed himself to be.

And the “accusations” against the Conservative party were not jaw-dropping when weighed against the extent of Liberal party perfidy.

Trudeau’s testimony was nothing more than a distraction to take the heat off his growing caucus mutiny.

It’s disturbingly plausible, as Tasha Kheiriddin argued here on Thursday, that Justin Trudeau might have extended his proverbial runway on Wednesday with his jaw-dropping performance before the parliamentary inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections. The most unhinged Trudeau and Liberal partisans are now convinced that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is some kind of Manchurian candidate — or the Indian-brainwashed equivalent — thanks to the prime minister’s claim to know the names of Conservative parliamentarians and candidates “who are engaged in or at high risk of foreign interference.”

As a growing chorus of Liberal MPs are renewing calls demanding Justin Trudeau resign, Joe Rogan and Kevin O’Leary are sounding the alarm over the unpopular prime minister.

In a conversation with Shane Smith this week on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast host spoke about his love for Canada, telling the Ottawa-born co-founder of Vice that he flirted with the idea of moving north of the border before becoming so disillusioned with Trudeau.

MPs seeking Trudeau’s removal say leadership talks have been blocked by the national caucus chair and the PMO for months.

After nine years in power, and polling 20 points behind the Conservatives for more than a year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a serious challenge to his leadership from within his own caucus, and MPs and political insiders are predicting a showdown between a “motivated group” of more than 20 MPs pushing for a new leader before the next election, versus the prime minister and his supporters.

Meanwhile Freeland and Miller whistle past the graveyard.