Why Have So Many Canadians Turned on Justin Trudeau? - The New York Times - "73 percent of Canadians think that Mr. Trudeau should resign as leader of the Liberal Party, including 43 percent of Liberal voters...
Economy: Canada’s post-pandemic inflation spiked to 8 percent, though it has since receded below 2 percent. Unemployment remains high, around 6.4 percent. The Conservative opposition has hammered Mr. Trudeau’s carbon-tax program.
Housing: The cost of housing in many major Canadian cities has become untenable. An economic analysis this year found that in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, prices would have to plummet, or incomes would have to improbably soar, to restore affordability.
Immigration: In October, Mr. Trudeau said he was tightening Canada’s immigration policies after the country welcomed nearly three million people over three years, straining health care and other services. “In the tumultuous times as we emerged from the pandemic, between addressing labor needs and maintaining population growth, we didn’t get the balance quite right,” he said.
Scandals: In 2018, Mr. Trudeau was accused of groping a reporter in 2000, an allegation he rejected. A federal ethics commissioner in 2019 ruled that Mr. Trudeau tried to circumvent, undermine and discredit his former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, in connection with a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin, a multinational engineering and construction firm based in Montreal. That same year, images surfaced of Mr. Trudeau wearing blackface or brownface as a student in the 1990s and as a teacher at a private prep school in 2001.
Infighting: Mr. Trudeau’s hold on power slipped in September when the left-leaning New Democratic Party deprived Liberals of guaranteed support needed to pass legislation. This week, Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, resigned abruptly, a stinging rebuke to Mr. Trudeau."
Why Have So Many Canadians Turned on Justin Trudeau? : r/canada - "Because, in the last 2 years particularly, Trudeau has done the complete opposite of what most Canadians want, exponentially, month after month:
Spending more, instead of fiscal restraint.
Identity politics, instead of meritocracy agnostic to race and gender.
Suppressing workers, instead of allowing pay and conditions to improve post-pandemic.
Favouring employers over workers.
Treating foreigners more sympathetically than citizens.
Perverting the public service into a grift.
Disempowering Canadians by eviscerating the job market. Either you can't find work (destitution), or can't leave a terrible job for something better (servitude).
Making Canadians depend increasingly on the government for subsistence, and then awarding this subsistence on the basis of identity.
Weaponizing immigration to keep us in our place; or, making Canadian serve immigration, rather than vice versa.
Completely neglecting the rule of law: immigration fraud, drugs rampant in the street, short sentences, and repeat bail for chronic recidivists.
The government, too, behaves as if it were above the law: withholding documents, possibly treasonous MPs, too (I know that backbench MPs aren't in government), the absence of any accountability. Parliament can't even hold the government to account. Democracy has nearly broken down in Canada, without exaggeration.
Pillaging the treasury to enrich themselves and the most dishonest and incompetent among us (our employers, frankly).
The NDP, in part, have stripped us of our collective ability to remove Trudeau, seemingly for the sake of Jagmeet Singh's pension. They've literally sacrificed our self-determination.
Fuelling hatred. Most Canadians don't wish any ill upon anyone else on the basis of identity, but become embittered by identity politics... provoked, as it were, to demagoguery.
Even his "fixes" seem corrupt: is the push to build more housing, for instance, not really a scheme to enrich developers?
A decade of frustration for young people, who came of age around his election, and have never gotten their lives off to a decent start. And all the youths who have come of age since, graduating into an abyss of underemployment, at best. The culmination of their work, education, skill, leadership, and know-how being to scroll Indeed all day, or serve hamburgers.
Neglecting to grow wealth, and obsessing over redistributing whatever crumbs remain, again on the basis of identity.
Turning Canada, a country of prosperity and law, into a basket case, where incompetence is the key to success.
Enriching themselves with borrowed money while we languish.
Doing all this with the smug veneer of virtue."
Liberals express concern about blowing past $40 billion deficit - "“It’s not an unlimited pot,” said Liberal MP Wayne Long about the federal government’s financial means. “I think that we do need to show fiscal restraint.”... Liberal MP Brendan Hanley agreed that his government should be presenting a “fiscally responsible framework” so that it is “able to invest in Canadians.”... Despite their concerns about the deficit ballooning and the expensive affordability measures, Liberal MPs did not express any desire to scrap the $250 cheques."
PM Trudeau takes a shot at countries who have elected Conservatives and warns voters to “not fall into an easy trap of voting for change for the worst.”: “Let’s not be that kind of country in Canada.” : r/Canada_sub - "Meanwhile every single data set available shows Canadians lives are worse off now by FAR compared to 10 years ago... but hey, at least we got weed. This guy is so our of touch that he actually believes he is still doing a good job."
Premiers step up as Trudeau's failure on border continues - "Ford was speaking with John Catsimatidis, the owner of WABC, and a personal friend of Trump. In fact, during Trump’s appearance at the New York Stock Exchange last week, Trump gave a shout-out to Catsimatidis, as the two billionaires have been friends for years. This may seem small potatoes to those who don’t understand politics and the Trump world, but in reality, this is a big deal. Ford was making Ontario’s case and Canada’s case, on a radio show that Trump listens to while speaking directly to one of Trump’s friend’s about why we should avoid a tariff trade war. This interview follows on Ford making similar appearances on Fox News and CNBC, two stations Trump watches — and on CNN, a station Trump mocks. Why isn’t Trudeau making the rounds to make Canada’s case? We know he isn’t above doing media interviews, although he seems to prefer friendly outlets like CBC or podcasts where the hosts are smitten with him. Still, this is the type of thing Trudeau, or his ministers, should be doing. Instead, they are busy campaigning at home. Trudeau has been in the headlines in the United States this past week, but for all the wrong reasons – mainly campaigning against Trump. Last Monday, in Halifax, Trudeau was speaking to the local chamber of commerce when he went off about the American election. Trudeau said Canadians should look south of the border and be worried about changing governments just for the sake of changing governments... Lamenting that your neighbour elected the wrong person after the election, while facing a tariff threat, is a really dumb move, something the premiers told Trudeau repeatedly during a conference call... On the issue of actually fixing the border, though, Trudeau has been a mute thus far. On Nov. 29, Trudeau flew down to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with Trump, a ballsy move and the right one. Unfortunately, as we learned later, Trudeau took the wrong message and has been the subject of mockery and trolling by Trump and his allies ever since. Trudeau’s message to Trump was that tariffs would cripple the Canadian economy, which led Trump to say that maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could be governor. Since then, and especially since Trudeau’s public musings about Americans being wrong in their electoral choice, Trump and his allies have had Trudeau — and therefore Canada — in their sights. Premiers, meanwhile, have been stepping up, and not just Ontario’s Ford. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has also made American media appearances making the case that there is work to be done on the border but that a trade war is not in anyone’s best interests. Smith has also put forward an aggressive plan to dedicate 51 Alberta sheriff, drones and more towards the border effort. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has ordered provincial conservation officers to begin border patrols and he’s also said he’s willing to pay extra for RCMP patrols. Kinew, a New Democrat, was the first of the premiers to raise the issue that Canada should increase defence spending, another American concern. Quebec’s Francois Legault has sent his provincial police force, the SQ, to patrol the border. Ford has said he will support using the OPP, back Windsor Police patrolling the river and look to get helicopters for police in Niagara and Hamilton to increase patrols. So far, Trudeau’s announcements have been wait and see, something is coming. As I have written earlier, Trudeau screwed up the 2018 tariff fight with Trump and hurt Canadian workers for nearly a full year before doing what needed to be done. Given past experience, we shouldn’t expect anything different this time."
Sorry, not sorry: Liberals urge Justin Trudeau to go - "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... Catherine McKenna, who served in Trudeau’s Cabinet from 2015 to 2021, was the first prominent Liberal to go public over the summer, calling for “new energy and a new leader.” Last week, she was far blunter: “Every Liberal MP should be calling on the Prime Minister to resign.” The House is scheduled to reconvene Jan. 27, a week after Donald Trump returns to the White House. There is growing fear that chaos in Ottawa is impeding Canada’s readiness for the tariff war the president-elect has threatened to start on his first day back... Trudeau is being compared to President Joe Biden — dooming his party by bungling his exit. Canada’s three-term prime minister is one of a band of embattled G7 leaders that includes now-former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who last week lost a confidence vote. Trudeau insisted through the fall that he was staying put. “I’ve got a fight to lead against people who want to hurt this country,” he said ahead of the fall session... MOST READ 1975420355 Mark Zuckerberg and Meta got a big win. They have the House GOP to thank. Biden vetoes bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge slots Elon Musk’s ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Attitude Clashes with Washington ‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables’ Sorry, not sorry: Liberals urge Trudeau to go The prime minister has been under growing pressure since the Liberals were defeated in a special election on June 24 in a Toronto stronghold his party had held since 1993. Rookie Conservative candidate Don Stewart scored a 590-vote squeaker over Leslie Church, Freeland’s former chief of staff. Liberals everywhere considered the loss a harbinger. If they could throw everything at a race in “Fortress Toronto” and lose, then no Liberal riding was safe. While pundits speculated on what the loss would mean for Trudeau’s feature, Liberal lawmakers recognized what it meant for theirs. In September, the Liberals lost another long-held seat in a Montreal by-election. On Dec. 16, they surrendered one more in British Columbia. They weren’t expected to hold on to Cloverdale-Langley City, a swing riding outside Vancouver, but the decisive loss offered yet another preview of the 2025 federal election. Polling from Abacus Data this fall found that 57 percent of Canadians living in a Liberal-held riding want their member of Parliament to call on Trudeau to resign and not run again. A new survey last week revealed 45 percent of committed voters ready to vote for Poilievre’s party, “the largest Conservative lead in our tracking history and the lowest Liberal vote share since 2015.”"
More left wing projection - the one hurting the country the most is Trudeau
Ontario Liberal MPs want Justin Trudeau to step down: sources - "more than 50 Liberal MPs came to a consensus that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to step down as party leader... Ontario caucus chair Michael Coteau was tasked with communicating to Trudeau and the Prime Minister's Office that he has to resign... 51 MPs were on the call, a majority of the Ontario caucus's 75 members."
Canada's worst ever finance minister — Justin Trudeau - "Trudeau, funny enough, started out with slightly more fiscal sanity in his toolkit. Indulge us, if you will, on a trip down memory lane. In the summer of 2015, Trudeau was campaigning on a pledge to run “a modest short-term deficit” of under $10 billion for the first three years of his mandate, and bringing it back to balance by 2019-20. The Liberal platform featured what now seem like fairly centrist policies, including a Canada Child Benefit that would give parents the freedom to purchase the type of child care that worked best for them, given that, as the Liberals put it, “A one-size-fits all national program — particularly one that imposes pre-determined costs on other orders of government — is impractical and unfair.” But like a kid in a candy store, once in office, Trudeau couldn’t help himself. His government’s first budget, tabled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau in 2016, projected a deficit that was nearly double Trudeau’s self-imposed $10-billion cap. And Morneau didn’t even bother pretending he was going to balance the budget by the end of their first term — the 2016 budget estimated that by 2019-20, the government would still be running a $17.7-billion deficit. But back then, the country’s finances were still in pretty good shape, with the national debt sitting at a relatively quaint $620 billion. In the intervening years, we have witnessed one of the largest expansions of government in Canadian history. By 2021, the socialized daycare system the Liberals had decried as “impractical and unfair” became “essential social infrastructure” that would be brought into existence with seed funding of $30 billion over five years. Other costly expansions into provincial areas of responsibility, such as socialized dental and pharmacare, were also pushed through, largely to placate the NDP once the Liberals lost their majority. Continuing its trend of meddling in areas of provincial jurisdiction, the Trudeau government pushed through a constitutionally dubious carbon tax that the Supreme Court upheld as being in the national interest, but was made political when the Liberals exempted home heating oil used almost exclusively in the Atlantic provinces, where they were looking to shore up support. Meanwhile, in Alberta, where the Liberal brand has been toxic since the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal of 1910, the oil and gas sector was singled out with more stringent emissions caps than any other industry. In the name of saving the planet, Trudeau also engaged in a national industrial policy that would make Mussolini proud. Last year, the parliamentary budget officer estimated that the government’s support for the electric vehicle battery industry alone would cost $43.6 billion. Never mind that Canadians seem wholly uninterested in purchasing EVs — the Trudeau Liberals plan to force their hand by banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. A full accounting of this government’s wasteful spending and pork-barrel politics could be the subject of a tome that would make George R. R. Martin blush. But it speaks volumes that during his nine years in office, Trudeau lost both his finance ministers due to disagreements over his reckless, politically motivated spending. Morneau stepped down in 2020 as the government engaged in a pandemic spending program that would double the national debt in a few short years. Actually, calling it a “program” is probably being too generous. The Liberals were simply spending vast sums of money in an effort to make it look as though they were doing something — anything — to try to mitigate the damage caused by the virus. As Morneau wrote in his 2023 book, “Where To From Here: A Path To Canadian Prosperity,” decisions were being made “on the fly” and “policy rationales were tossed aside in favour of scoring political points.” Morneau was expected to “rubber stamp” Trudeau’s political whims, even when they were made over the objections of finance officials. “During the period when the largest government expenditures as a portion of GDP were made in the shortest time since the advent of World War II, calculations and recommendations from the Ministry of Finance were basically disregarded in favour of winning a popularity contest,” he wrote. Rather than entering a period of fiscal austerity when the pandemic began to subside, the Liberals continued burning through cash, with Morneau’s replacement, Chrystia Freeland, arguing that low interest rates meant it would be “short-sighted of us not to.” But even she apparently had her limits... Freeland refused to be a rubber stamp, so she was tossed aside in favour of Dominic LeBlanc, a close family friend of Trudeau’s who is sure to do the prime minister’s bidding for as long as he lasts in the job. Having a puppet in the finance portfolio has always been the goal of Justin Trudeau — a man who should go down in history as Canada’s worst ever finance minister."
Why Jagmeet Singh says he isn't ready to bring Trudeau down, yet - "In an interview on CTV's Your Morning with Anne-Marie Mediwake, Singh was asked repeatedly to explain how he's calling on the embattled Liberal leader to resign, but won't say he's ready to help trigger an election."
When you know you'd lose relevance if you brought down the government
Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "Police push protesters away from driveway to make space for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s convoy. The nation’s top politician was not able to access his own fundraiser on the first attempt. #cdnpoli #Malton #Mississauga #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania"
#BREAKING Prime Minister’s convoy forced to drive past “An Evening with Justin Trudeau” Liberal party fundraiser due to angry protesters. : r/canadian - "Meanwhile on Reddit: It's just Russian bots saying Canadians don't like Trudeau."
"Pretty soon they’ll find out “Russian bots” vote too. Lol"
"Yep. My favourite thing in the CSIS hearing today was that Russia actually has minimal operations in Canada today; they are laser-focused on the US and Europe. The top countries with influence operations here? China, India, Iran and Pakistan."
"Funny enough these protestors are all Trudeau's imports Gotta love it."
"Maybe someone told them Trudeau is a Jew?"
Stacey on X - "In 2010 Justin Trudeau promised to never take away people’s guns. In 2011 Stephen Harper promised to not reopen the abortion debate or introduce legislation. Poilievre has promised the same. Only 1 of these people have broken their promise."
This won't stop all the Conservative haters making all their wild claims
Polimeter - 41st Parliament of Canada - "Stephen Harper. Promise Tracker. Kept (77%)"
Polimeter - 44th Parliament of Canada - "Justin Trudeau. Promise Tracker. Kept (43%)"
Meme - "Lol Should Trudeau criticize anyone when he trampled people's rights during covid and is wanting to bring the Online Harms Bill to really censor and control what people can see and say......"
Justin Trudeau: "And he says he'll make Canada "the freest country on Earth.""
"Poilievre's office maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do"
Party discipline when you know the media and the left will and has blown trivial things up to defame and attack you is clearly against free speech
Trudeau thinks climate change is more important than feeding your kids. : r/Canada_sub
Trudeau cried during heated caucus meeting, wants to keep job - "Trudeau opened the nearly 4-hour meeting with a 20-minute speech, “during which he admitted he hadn’t slept the night before in anticipation of the meeting.” They added: “He became emotional, with tears in his eyes, as he spoke about the toll the situation has taken on his family.” Following the meeting, Trudeau was seen flamboyantly brushing by reporters, bobbing his head with a Conor McGregor-like swagger. He told reporters the Liberals were “strong and united” without stopping to take questions... To date, the 9-year and three-time elected PM has vowed to continue on as the party leader into his fourth election, slated for October 2025, despite abysmal polling numbers, including one that indicates the majority of Canadians want him to resign. "
Time for Trudeau to do the right thing for Canada an leave - "“Let the bankers worry about the economy,” Trudeau said Friday while announcing government funding to feed hungry kids. It was reminiscent of his comments in 2021 about not thinking about monetary policy just before inflation rose to 8.1% in June 2022. Or his comments that the budget would balance itself just before he plunged Canada in a decade-long cycle of huge deficits. Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have shown themselves to be poor managers of the economy. They are in fact economic illiterates and vandals inflicting damage upon this country that we all have to pay for. Since coming to office, Trudeau has increased total federal spending by $177 billion, an increase of 60% at a time when the Bank of Canada calculates cumulative inflation over that time of 22%. No matter how you measure it, government spending has been ramped up to uncontrollable levels under Trudeau, but no one would say that our government services are 60% better. We have a military that can’t function, is short 14,000 members and is unable to recruit but can change their marching anthems due to concerns over colonialism and gender. We have an immigration system that is broken and a refugee surge that is bankrupting every level of government. Crime, specifically violent crime, is up and the public is fed up with a revolving-door bail system. Rather than fix that though, the Trudeau government is blaming everyone else... So yes, the images of the vandals and thugs in Montreal are infuriating. The images of Trudeau dancing at the Taylor Swift concert knowing that he’s done nothing to deal with these hate rallies is infuriating."
Lawrence Martin on X - "Bumped into a longtime Liberal of good standing who told me he asked Jean Chretien about Justin Trudeau’s future. Chretien, he said, took a sip from his drink and muttered, “He’s toast.”"
All the times Trudeau slammed others for questioning high immigration - "The above is a third-hand account, but Lawrence Martin is one of the country’s leading Jean Chrétien, experts, having written a two-volume biography of the man. Anyways, according to a friend of Lawrence Martin, the former prime minister (who never lost an election) is saying that Justin Trudeau is “toast” in the next election. The Liberals may have hoped that the election of Donald Trump in the United States would provide some boost to their popularity. Trump remains broadly unpopular in Canada, and the thinking was that his victory would steer voters away from right-wing politicians generally. But that doesn’t appear to have happened."
Kelly McParland: Trudeau Liberals stick to same path Democrats took to defeat - "Justin Trudeau’s been pressed to shift gears, change direction, abandon unpopular or ineffective policies and adopt new ones, pay more attention to Canadians’ doorstep concerns, treat his caucus’s fears with greater regard, shake up his cabinet, call an election, step aside for new blood and generally offer some evidence he understands the state of the unrest afflicting his party and country … all to little effect. His response is to forge ahead, stick to the plan, ignore the naysayers and wait for the day everyone admits he was right in the first place. This is the same approach used by the Democratic Party as it strode confidently into last week’s wholesale defeat. Post-election analyses show Democrats lost ground to Republicans pretty much across the board: among Black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, rural voters, blue collar voters, independent voters, swing-state voters; they lost support in wealthy neighbourhoods and unhealthy neighbourhoods. You name it, they lost it. There’s no question it was a deep expression of discontent with the world as Democrats see it... A week before the vote old salt party strategist James Carville was still insisting Kamala Harris had it all over Trump. His three reasons: Trump was a repeat electoral loser, Harris had gobs of money to spend, and a spidey-sense that Americans remained too good-hearted and reasonable to support an ogre like Trump. Now the task is to sort out the mistakes, with considerable early opinion arguing it’s well past time to abandon “progressive” moralizing and impregnable self-regard. Stunned by the election result, Carville was beside himself. “We had every rock star, cultural icon, athlete you can imagine. We had a superior field operation, the canvassing, the door-to-door stuff. We also raised more money. You look at all the intangible advantages we had and it didn’t amount to anything.” What’s wrong with those voters? How could they be so stupid? The view that voters were too dumb to grasp the essential rightness of Democratic policies struck many as central to the party’s defeat. Overpopulated with college-educated professionals, tech workers, academics, consultants, activists, left-wing podcasters and the like, party bosses refused to recognize they had lost touch with vast stretches of the country. “The Democratic Party has one job: to combat inequality,” wrote columnist David Brooks. “Here was a great chasm of inequality right before their noses and somehow many Democrats didn’t see it. Many on the left focused on racial inequality, gender inequality and L.G.B.T.Q. inequality. I guess it’s hard to focus on class inequality when you went to a college with a multibillion-dollar endowment and do environmental greenwashing and diversity seminars for a major corporation.” “The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of 50 years ion neoliberalism, which left legions of Americans adrift,” concurred Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy in a lengthy posting. “We don’t listen enough; we tell people what’s good for them.” “Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left,” asserted Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres. “When over 70 per cent of Americans think we are on the wrong track or headed in the wrong direction, that’s not a messaging problem. That is reality problem.” Left-wing warhorse Bernie Sanders, re-elected for a fourth term at age 83, issued a statement reflecting much the same view. “It should come as no surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he charged, denouncing “the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party.” All the conditions that brought down the Democrats are rife among Canadian Liberals. A prime minister convinced he’s on the right track no matter who says otherwise. An uneasy caucus in need of a new leader but lacking candidates other than paler versions of the one they’ve got. A restless electorate convinced it’s not being listened to. A surging opposition happy to ride the wave of public discontent. Like the Democrats, Liberals can’t think of any response to challengers but to call them names and denigrate their existence. The last thing they’re prepared to do is listen. Even as their American cousins were deep into self-examination, two Trudeau ministers — ignoring the gains Conservatives have made by questioning unpopular climate policies — announced the government’s latest set of obstacles to the energy industry. “We’re asking the oil and gas sector to invest their record profits into pollution-cutting projects,” declared Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, unveiling a demand for a further 35 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. “I think most Canadians — even those that aren’t my biggest fans — would agree that it’s not OK for a sector to not be doing its share.” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith denounced the emissions cap as a “deranged vendetta” against Canada’s biggest export industry, worth US$143 billion a year with operations in seven provinces. Lisa Baiton, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, predicted the result of Guilbeault’s emissions cap would be “lower exports, fewer jobs, lower GDP, and less revenues to governments to fund critical infrastructure and social programs.” Industry executives and analysts warned of higher production costs and less investment."
