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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