Whether or not Justin Trudeau should quit now is the wrong question. Just ask Kathleen Wynne

Is her ex-husband still living in the basement?

Should Justin Trudeau stay or should he go?

Kathleen Wynne has been there, done that — and didn’t go.

After a bitter byelection defeat for the federal Liberals in Toronto–St. Paul’s riding this week, Wynne has been asking herself the same question anew. As premier, she stayed to fight another campaign in 2018, paying a high price in the election defeat that followed.

h/t Patti Jo

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Liberal MPs say Trudeau needs to meet with caucus after surprise byelection loss

 

A growing number of Liberal MPs say the national caucus needs to meet as soon as possible to discuss the fallout of this week’s tough byelection loss in Toronto and that the gathering can’t wait until the retreat scheduled for the end of the summer.

One Liberal MP told CBC News that if the caucus waits until that early September meeting to regroup and reset, “we will be writing our obituary.”

The stunning loss in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection on Monday has fuelled conversations inside the Liberal caucus about the future prospects of the party, the tenability of Justin Trudeau’s leadership and the effectiveness of the political team that surrounds the prime minister.

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Military Leaders Push Back on Culture Change Strategy That Blames ‘Patriarchy,’ ‘heteronormativity’

Canada’s armed forces are ready for emergency pronoun deployment under battlefield conditions.

As Canada’s military continues on a path to overhaul its culture, top leaders in the defence establishment have expressed concerns about the tone used in a new strategy paper guiding the change.

The military’s new guiding document, “Defence Team Culture Evolution Strategy,” which is already being rolled out but hasn’t been publicized, blames “colonialism,” “patriarchy,” and “heteronormativity” for cultural problems affecting the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

The Liberals deserve political oblivion for this alone.

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Stolen Valour Sajjan instructed special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs rather than Canadians during fall of Kabul

Gave his D-Day plan to Ike.

Sajjan instructed special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs during fall of Kabul

Then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan instructed Canadian special forces to rescue about 225 Afghan Sikhs after the Taliban takeover in August, 2021, in an operation that three military sources say took resources away from getting Canadian citizens and Afghans linked to Canada on final evacuation flights out of Kabul.

Mr. Sajjan also relayed location information and other details about the Sikhs to the military as special operation forces worked to meet up with the group. The information was passed to him from a Canadian Sikh group that was in contact with these Afghan Sikhs.

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Ontario Liberal leader distances herself from Trudeau: ‘I think the bigger friend is Doug Ford’

Bonnie Crombie, Ontario’s Liberal leader, distanced herself from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of the federal party’s byelection loss on Monday.

“I probably speak to the prime minister less than once a year,” she told Global News in an exclusive video interview released Tuesday.

The ruling party lost a seat in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto—St. Paul’s, raising questions over whether the federal party is hampering its provincial cousins.

Rats.

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ANALYSIS: Likely Next Moves for Liberals After Toronto Byelection Upset

Polling maps in recent months have shown swathes of blue across most of the country, except for big cities like Montreal and Toronto where ridings generally looked solid red.

This tapestry changed in the early hours of June 25, when a lone blue square emerged from the core of the traditional Liberal stronghold of Toronto.

The Toronto–St.Paul’s riding, held by the Liberals for over three decades, switched to Conservative by 590 votes.

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It’s too late for the Liberals to save themselves by ditching Trudeau, poll shows

Despite a fresh round of calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, a new poll shows that the Liberal Party is already too far gone to be saved by his departure.

In a survey published Monday, the Angus Reid Institute found that a clear plurality of respondents were already disillusioned with the Liberals regardless of who was the helm.

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Why do the Liberals find the easy parts so difficult?

The federal Liberals might poll better if they just cut back on the obviously stupid stuff.

The most recent head-scratcher out of Ottawa was that Justin Trudeau’s government needed more than 1,500 days to weigh Iran’s downing of UIA Flight 752, not to mention the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) overt backing of global terror groups, before finally agreeing to designate the IRGC as terrorists. (The Harper government designated the Quds Force, the IRGC arm in charge of overseas operations, as a terrorist organization in 2012.) Am I the only one who recalls that it took Trudeau less than 30 days following the start of the 2022 Trucker Convoy protest to seize more than 200 bank accounts (a decision a federal court later deemed to be overreach)?

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Most Gen Z, millennials don’t think Liberals will fix ‘rigged’ system: poll

OTTAWA — A majority of younger Canadians believe that older generations are rigging things to benefit themselves, while making life harder for millennial and Gen Z voters, and most aren’t convinced the recent Liberal budget will help matters.

They also aren’t big fans of plans for more government spending and higher carbon taxes. Nor are they confident that the government’s recent massive subsidy announcements for EV and battery plants will benefit them.

A horrible era to be young.

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The message in Toronto-St. Paul’s loss is ‘loud and clear,’ ‘more immigration,’ ‘more carbon tax’ ‘more unaffordability,’ ‘more homeless camps,’ ‘more food insecurity,’ ‘more misery,’ ‘more Trudeau,’ minister says

Members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet say they’re standing by him despite a stunning byelection defeat this week in what was once considered a reliable Toronto seat for the Liberals.

“We got a message that was loud and clear from Toronto-St. Paul’s, what was considered a quote on quote ‘safe riding,’’ Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday, who is also a close personal friend of Trudeau’s.

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau refuses to listen to Canadians clamouring for him to leave

Chrystia Freeland gave a press conference Tuesday. The finance minister was looking pretty rocky. She had the appearance of someone who’d convinced herself she had a happy, idyllic marriage, only to bump into her husband at the grocery store, shopping with his other family.

Earlier in the day she’d learned the bad news. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s happy marriage with appreciative Canadians was over. They’d cheated on him.

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Slumlord Trudeau: When Asylum Seekers Have Nowhere To Go

Ann doesn’t know how old she is. She thinks she’s probably 40 or 41, but she became separated from her parents as a child, and she has no record of her birth. When she was a child she lived alone on the streets of Kampala, Uganda—one of thousands of homeless youth in the city—and survived by collecting plastic bottles and scrap to sell to recyclers. She slept outside at night, then later in a church, and attended school by day. Remarkably, after years of diligent study, she secured a high school scholarship, saved money and enrolled in university. She earned a degree in international business and began a career in business development for multinational corporations.


“Asylum Seekers”, “Temporary Foreign Workers”, “Foreign Students”, “Mass Immigration” “Chain Migration” “Anchor Babies” all part of the plan to alter Canada’s demographic forever.

And Canadians are made to pay and pay and pay for their ever falling standard of living and fractured low trust society all to appease Trudeau’s corporate cronies and their insatiable demand for cheap labour.

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Tone deaf narcissist says he “hears our concerns”

Trudeau digs in after Liberal drubbing

OTTAWA — Facing new questions about his political longevity, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed resolve after a by-election loss Monday in one of the safest Liberal seats in the country.

“This was obviously not the result we wanted, but I want to be clear that I hear people’s concerns and frustrations,” he said of his party’s results in Toronto-St. Paul’s riding. “My focus is on your success and that’s where it’s going to stay.”

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Canada orders deportation of ex-employee of Hamas-linked aid group

Canada’s immigration tribunal has ordered the deportation of a Palestinian woman formerly employed by a Mississauga, Ont. relief group linked to Hamas.

Majeda Sarassra was deemed inadmissible to Canada on security grounds because she worked for the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada.

The Immigration Appeal Division ruled the 45-year-old’s employment made her a “member” of IRFAN-Canada, which it said had engaged in terrorism.


This will be appealed forever.

Given the “political climate” I doubt she will be turfed.

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