Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest vacation trip to Jamaica may have been cleared by the ethics commissioner, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s party is now asking why.

In a lengthy letter to interim commissioner Konrad Von Finckenstein, Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett raises a question in the wake of reporting that Trudeau’s family went to the same luxury resort as they did last year, with a free stay at a high-end villa belonging to a friend: how is the prime minister able to accept such an expensive gift?

The prime minister’s bleak reality: Canadians don’t like him anymore.

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau could lose Canada’s next election because he’s just not as angry as the country he leads.

The prime minister has been getting smoked in the polls. His rival is a savvy and fiery conservative dismissed at the outset by Trudeau’s inner circle as too cantankerous for mainstream appeal.

In the year since taking over Canada’s Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre has tapped grievance politics and assembled a coalition of populists, social conservatives and center-right moderates that would make him the favorite if a vote were held any time soon. Conservatives sit ahead of Trudeau’s Liberals with a 10-point lead.

Settle in, voters of Canada: the next federal election likely won’t be until 2025. That’s an eon away in political terms, and anything — literally anything — can happen in that time. If you had said in January 2023 that one year later, the Middle East would be a warzone, the federal government would call a foreign interference inquiry and the Conservatives would be trouncing the Liberals at the polls, most people would have called you crazy — or at least hoped you were wrong about the first one.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is once again facing criticism for vacationing at a luxurious Jamaican estate belonging to longtime friends of his father.

Of course Premier Danielle Smith’s proposal to separate Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan should be abandoned. Such a move would be bad for the CPP, bad for Alberta pensioners and bad for the country.

Of course Premier Scott Moe’s decision to stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating in Saskatchewan should be abandoned. The tax must and will be remitted to Ottawa one way or another.

The next election is not scheduled until 2025, but so far 14 MPs have decided not to run again, including 10 Liberals, ahead of what some pundits say will be “the most difficult election” for the party since 2015.

The NDP, of course, is holding the Liberal government’s feet to the fire over a national, universal, government-paid drug plan. If the Liberals don’t produce one, the NDP might withdraw its support and bring down the government.

For all the annoying things that Justin Trudeau does, it’s his policies that are the most aggravating.

Forget his lavish vacations, his embarrassing foreign junkets or his habit of talking down to people, he simply has some ridiculous policies that hurt Canada.

From a polling perspective, 2023 was a horrible year for the federal Liberals. It doesn’t matter if the government was sometimes a victim of forces outside its control – it felt as if everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.

Over the holidays, the prime minister stayed in a private compound at a luxury oceanfront resort in Jamaica that rents for over $9,300 per night that was provided to him and his family at no cost by longtime friends.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office is clarifying that he and his family are vacationing in Jamaica “at no cost at a location owned by family friends,” after initially saying the family was paying for their stay.

The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that the federal ethics commissioner was consulted “on these details prior to the travel to ensure that the rules were followed.”

The office offered the clarification the day before Trudeau’s holiday on the Caribbean island is set to conclude. He is there with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their three children.

Par for the course Junior is a compulsive liar.

h/t Mauser