Justin Trudeau made Canadians feel like strangers in their own land - "“(The Liberals) loved the poetry of governing a lot more than the prose,” wrote historian JDM Stewart in The Hub this week. Missteps, controversies and broken promises, such as the pledge to make the 2015 election the last held under the first-past-the-post system, led many to the realization that this was a leader who valued style over substance and talk over action. Trudeau’s time in office gradually drained the enthusiasm of those who voted for a man who promised to change the world, but couldn’t even change the voting system... Trudeau’s ability to understand the feelings of others and play on them; his impulsiveness and tendency towards sanctimony, meant that a growing number of Canadians, particularly older men, decided he was a manipulative phoney, who got to be prime minister because of his famous name, not his achievements. “Canada is back and we’re here to help,” Trudeau told the 2015 Paris climate conference. That was typical of the smugness and hubris of which world leaders and domestic voters have grown tired. The second criticism in the book was that the focus on communications came at the expense of making things happen after they had been announced. Even his senior staff admitted that the prime minister was much more interested in the initial idea than on the implementation, which created challenges in execution. Critics like Robert Asselin, a former senior adviser in the Liberal government, claim the centralization of decisions in the Prime Minister’s Office led to the decline of cabinet government, with ministers often left to announce and defend decisions made at the centre, on which they had had little input. Over time, the Trudeau government strayed into areas of provincial jurisdiction with plans for national pharma and dental care, while bungling key federal priorities like defence, fiscal policy and immigration. The narrative that won the government the 2015 election centred on “modest” deficits of around $20 billion over four years, with a credible plan to balance the budget in 2019. Instead, the national debt has doubled in the past nine years and the Liberals have missed many of their own fiscal targets because of their propensity, if not addiction, to spending... This has been a government that has more often boasted about how much money it has spent, rather than about the results that ensued. The charge that Trudeau’s leadership resulted in an inefficient, reactive style of governance is hard to refute. The Liberals inherited what was arguably the world’s best immigration system and devalued it by allowing many more lower skilled and temporary workers into the country. The neglect shown toward the economy constitutes a dereliction of duty... The decline in living standards relative to the U.S. and drop off in business investment can be attributed in the early years of the Trudeau government to a fall in the oil price. But crude prices and production levels have recovered since the pandemic, while Canada’s per capita GDP performance has declined for eight of the past nine quarters. Long-term problems such as labour productivity stagnation, regulatory inefficiency, a lack of innovation and internal trade barriers that the IMF estimates cost the equivalent of a 20 per cent average tariff between provinces were just not sexy enough to hold Trudeau’s interest. The Toronto Star reported last week that per capita income rose 23 per cent over Trudeau’s tenure. But the story failed to mention that inflation increased by nearly 26 per cent in the same period. The third assertion is perhaps the most damning: that Trudeau’s belief, bordering on dogmatism, that Canadians share his devotion for his activist agenda, saw him dismiss those who disagreed with him as uninformed, irresponsible or motivated by unworthy purposes. This special state of grace was described by American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell as “The Vision of the Anointed” in his 1995 book of the same name. Sowell said the Anointed predict future social, economic and environmental problems unless there is government intervention. “Those who accept this vision are deemed to be not merely factually correct but morally on a higher plane. Put differently, those who disagree with the prevailing vision are seen as being not merely in error but in sin,” he said. That is the perfect description of the way Trudeau sees himself and his opponents. In reality, Canada’s post-war political history has been more centrist than progressive left and, particularly after signing the deal with the NDP in 2022, the Liberals have left the median voter far behind. The drift toward identity politics alienated many people who had voted for the Liberal “fairness agenda” in 2015 because of the promises to address issues like the cost of living, the lack of accessible housing and high taxes. Trudeau was elected after promising to bridge partisan divides. Conservatives were not the enemy, he told Liberals, they are your neighbours. Yet, he proceeded to engage in years of playing identity politics, with baked-in hostility toward anyone deemed “privileged.”... Liberals excused their own lack of transparency and accountability because they decided their intentions were good. In this light, the SNC-Lavalin debacle in 2019 that saw then attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould pressured to strike a plea bargain with the Montreal engineering company accused of bribery and corruption overseas was deemed by Liberals as a necessary evil to secure votes in Quebec. In reality, it was a blatant abuse of the rule of law and the prosecutorial independence of the attorney general’s office. Trudeau did not apologize for his role in the affair. But his tendency to apologize for the darker chapters of Canada’s history, while not boasting about its successes, did not endear him to his critics... His declaration that Canada has no core identity and is a “post-national” state was the catalyst for a steady decline in the pride of being Canadian. The white-hot anger now being directed towards the prime minister is the result of a cultural backlash from people who feel like they have become strangers in their own land, abandoned by progressive values and policies they don’t share or understand... the inescapable conclusion is that Trudeau has left the country in worse shape than he found it — from the perspective of the public finances; from the glaring regional fissures that threaten national unity in the West and in Quebec; and from this country’s abysmal relations with the world’s great powers."
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "May 25th 2021 Trudeau said “nobody wants an election during a pandemic” Months later he called one as to try & further his own ambitions & power over Canadians. How many times has this guy stared straight in the camera & lied? He can’t ever be trusted."
Justin Trudeau will announce resignation plan, prorogue Parliament: source - National | Globalnews.ca : r/canada - "Disastrous move by the LPC. At a time when we need an operational government to shut down so the LPC can get their own house in order is terrible for Canada. So selfish and self centred."
Liberal leadership: Former PM Jean Chretien weighs in - "For more than two years, the Liberals had a supply-and-confidence agreement with the NDP, in which the NDP supported the Liberals in exchange for progress on shared priorities. Under the deal — which ended last summer — policies such as dental care and pharmacare moved forward, pushing the Liberals further to the left. But since Trudeau's resignation announcement, some Liberal MPs have publicly expressed a desire to see the party move more to the political centre. "It's critically important that we choose somebody that's middle of the road, understands the needs of Canadians and will put Canadians first," Ontario MP Judy Sgro said to reporters on Wednesday ahead of a caucus meeting. "As we go forward, I think Canadians want us to continue to look at ways to support their priorities while also being fiscally responsible," Ontario MP Charles Sousa said Wednesday. "I am very keen on ensuring that we concentrate on the economy as we move ahead.""
Clearly, Jean Chretien is a far right extremist who has no idea what he's talking about. If you're against the left wing agenda, you're a bigot and not a decent human being, and should be ignored
If you want to see a great sample of the people who still vote for Trudeau see /r/Canada : r/Canada_sub - "It's truly something else. The opinions on there are absolutely devoid of any modicum of common sense and reason. Wild, narcissistic delusion. These are the common Trudeau voters, still loyal and willfully ignorant beyond redemption."
"let me introduce you to the wackos at /onguardforthee"
"There's actually a post on there right now calling the mods from r/Canada "far right" 😂 😂 😂"
"A typical Liberal from 2005 would be considered “far right” by that lot of delusional-far-alt-left wackos."
"If you want to have some fun with them, run some jean chretien policies by them and tell them they are pierre pillievre's"
"Ahahaha its so sad this would work. Tried to show my aunt conservative policies under a liberal and she was all for it. When I revealed they were a conservatives she immediately backtracked and called the policies disgusting. This is after we talked about how great the policies would be for Canadians"
"Any time I read an exceptionally off the wall and insane comment in any other Canadian sub from someone, OGFT will be in their post history."
"I was banned from that site for saying you won't go to jail if you are not committing crimes."
Many people are just blind partisan hacks, for example those who insist, with no evidence, that Poilievre will go back on his word and not do anything he says he will
Opinion: Is Mark Carney’s new job to provide cover for the mother of all U-turns? - The Globe and Mail - "According to a Liberal press release, Mr. Carney’s task is to develop “new ideas for the next phase of Canada’s strategy” for economic growth, “building on” the economy’s already “strong foundations.” You get the picture: when we say new ideas, that should not be taken to mean there is anything wrong with the old ideas. As always in Liberalspeak, there is never any need to deviate from the One True Path, but only to “continue” doing what is already being done. Mr. Carney, then, will be “building on the Liberal government’s work” to date – “shaping the next steps,” as the Prime Minister is quoted saying, “in our plan to continue to grow our economy.” Perhaps you are wondering why Mr. Carney’s services are needed, if the economy is continuing to grow on the strong foundations of the Liberal plan. Or even if it is not: Do we not already have a Finance Minister? A Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry? A Minister of Economic Development, and several more economic ministers besides? What is their job, but to continue to build next steps in the strategy? It will perhaps not surprise you to learn that politics is involved. The assignment is, one suspects, not to “continue to” or to “build on” anything but to prepare the ground for a fairly abject about-face, of a kind familiar from recent months – see housing, immigration, etc. – but on a much grander scale... It’s not that the Trudeau government has had no interest in growth until now. It came to power, recall, complaining of the sluggish growth the country had allegedly endured under the Harper government. Its first seven budgets mentioned “growth” an average of more than 220 times. It’s just that it had no clue what to do about it. So far as it gave the matter any thought, the answer it came up with was “innovation” (110 mentions per budget). But it was no closer to knowing how to boost innovation, nor any idea of what it was for... For the Prime Minister, it allows him to borrow Mr. Carney’s credentials on economic issues without committing to the final result. For Mr. Carney, it gives him a chance to get involved without getting too close – to be seen to be helping out before the election without being tainted afterward by the expected defeat."
Trudeau’s Economic Incompetence in Seven Charts - "from the third quarter of 2015 through the second quarter of 2023, real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita increased by 12.5 percent in the United States versus only 1.6 percent in Canada... The starkly poor outcome in this key economic metric – alongside strong evidence that it is possible to do much better – has given the prime minister and his cabinet no pause. The Liberals’ current playbook is to deny reality, insist they have produced splendid results, and increase the severity of all the deleterious policies that produced these miserable outcomes in the first place. That is, inflationary spending, regulatory expansion, punitive taxation and net-zero emissions enthusiasm. The nincompoops have learned nothing... Before they were first elected, the Liberals promised modest, temporary deficits, supposedly to make important improvements to government services and increase economic growth. But the actual deficits have greatly exceeded the levels originally promised, have been anything but temporary, and the improvements to services and economic growth have not been forthcoming... A full assessment of spending during the pandemic is beyond the scope of this essay, but Fraser Institute economists Jake Fuss and Tegan Hill conclude in a recent analysis that, “Canadian COVID programs such as CEWS and CERB were ripe with problems including overpayments, funds provided to individuals and businesses not in genuine need, and excessive amounts of support that went above what was required to stabilize incomes.” As to what proportion of pandemic-specific spending should be considered waste, they put it at a minimum of 25 percent. While any such estimates are debatable, what is not up for debate is that the Liberals took advantage of the pandemic to permanently and dramatically increase the size, scope – and cost – of government. In Budget 2019, they planned for spending of $358.4 billion in 2022-23 and $369.1 billion in 2023-24. With the pandemic firmly in the rearview mirror, the latest figures show spending of $445.7 billion in 2022-23 and $453.0 billion budgeted in 2023-24. The Liberals, in other words, abused the pandemic to ram $80 billion to $90 billion more into the annual federal budget on a permanent basis. A main result of this spending explosion is an increase in federal debt... A notable fact about Liberal policies that claim to be reducing the effects of inflation is that they are themselves all inflationary. Take, for example, the federal government’s $2.5 billion in “grocery rebate” handouts to 11 million Canadians, which it said would “provide inflation relief.” Leave aside the observation that if, by the Liberals’ own admission, more than one in four Canadians needs government help to buy groceries, this cannot be a glowing endorsement of their economic management. In fact, the handouts have nothing to do with groceries and, by increasing the amount of money but not the amount of goods and services in the economy, are in fact inflationary... The Liberals are now contemplating a grocery tax to increase the affordability of groceries. It is a beyond-preposterous proposal and there are only two possible explanations for it: political calculation and utter stupidity. These are not mutually exclusive... productivity growth is driven by business investment. What encourages long-term business investment is light and predictable taxation and regulation. Over the past eight years, however, Canadian taxation and regulation have been overbearing and unpredictable. Economic policy is today determined by a cynical government’s reading of populist sentiment among its voters, instead of careful reasoning. Heavy borrowing along with higher interest rates that, in turn, will increase government debt-servicing costs, have increased uncertainty about future taxation. Industries or companies perceived to be too profitable are singled out for political demonization and special taxation. The result is that businesses and entrepreneurs are reluctant to invest in Canada. As numerous studies have documented, business investment in Canada was not strong even in 2015. But over the past eight years, things have gone from bad to worse to ugly... Considerable economic harm and discouragement of new business investment has been caused by the Liberals’ enthusiasm for climate-related policies. A 2021 Fraser Institute study by Ross McKitrick and Elmira Aliakbari estimated that the federal carbon tax would cut Canada’s GDP by 1.8 percent by 2030... Adding to the damage: over $120 billion in climate change spending by the Liberals to date, many billions of dollars more in future spending, a forthcoming ban on the sale of gasoline-powered cars, and sundry other regulatory initiatives. And still the Liberals are intent on making things much worse. In June Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, commented on the Canada Energy Regulator’s report on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, saying that, “Canada faces a choice: we can either lead in seizing the historic economic opportunities associated with building a global net-zero economy, or we can let them pass us by, with all the attendant consequences of being a late mover. I strongly believe that Canada must lead: we must build a net-zero economy.” Some opportunity! The regulator’s projections show that relative to the “current measures” baseline – a baseline already stuffed full of economically harmful policies – the push for net-zero would, among its many effects, increase inflation, reduce commercial floor space, slightly shrink average home sizes and materially reduce incomes... already having the worst economic outlook among all developed countries, pursuing net-zero emissions would eliminate an additional 20 percent to 40 percent of Canada’s projected growth. That the Liberals consider this a “historic economic opportunity” should not improve the equanimity of Canadians unhappy with their poor economic results of recent years and troubled about the economic outlook... the federal Liberals returned to the first parliamentary session of the fall and were promptly hammered for making life in this country less affordable than ever. Trudeau replied to these concerns with some mumbo-jumbo about Conservatives restricting abortion, denying climate change and planning to put assault weapons on the streets. He insisted the Liberals are “delivering real results.” That the Liberal government’s results are real, no one doubts. That they are any good, no serious person can believe. Trudeau is governing with his eyes closed. After eight years, he is still not ready."
From 2023
Vacationing Justin Trudeau can't escape catcalls and mockery in BC - "If Trudeau had walked through the resort on Saturday night, he might even have seen a local music duo who had arrived to sing anti-Trudeau folk songs. In a Facebook video posted by Castlegar, B.C.’s Doreen Court, she sings “Hey, Hey Trudeau, you know it’s time to go, get out of our government and take your walk in the snow.” It’s all sharply different from how these things used to go. Trudeau famously worked as a Whistler, B.C., ski instructor in the mid-1990s, and ski trips during the early years of his premiership were often highly publicized events documented by a trail of selfies, sightings and positive news coverage. After a 2016 ski trip to Whistler, Trudeau even drew attention to the visit by noting that his RCMP security detail needed to be selected based on their ski skills. “I was very pleased to be able to see that they (the RCMP) are as good on the slopes as they are anywhere else in the world,” he said at the time. Trudeau’s visit to RED Mountain, by contrast, was seemingly organized to be as inconspicuous as possible."
Meme - "For all the lefties saying it's ridiculous for people to be pissed of about Trudeau attending a concert it's not about that, it's not about that, it's about this."
"Trudeau when far-leftists burn and smash Montreal *Taylor Swift concert*"
"Trudeau when there's a bouncy castle in Ottawa *Emergencies Act*"
Quebec separatism is resurging, and Trudeau isn't taking it seriously - "It would help if the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at least tried to respect provincial jurisdiction. When Trudeau talks of a new renters’ bill of rights, for example, he is interfering with the Civil Code of Quebec, which has been recognized as Quebec’s civil law since the Quebec Act of 1774. Not even the most federalist Quebec politician would ever agree to negotiate the interpretation of the Civil Code of Quebec with the federal government. Ottawa’s arrogance on that score only provides fuel to the province’s resurging separatist movement."
Chris Selley: Trudeau made Canada too weak to handle Trump making America great - "On the question of Donald Trump’s second term as nominal leader of the free world, the federal Liberals’ message boils down to “all is well.”... All this reassurance was passing funny, considering Liberals have been ever-more-shamelessly exploiting Trump and Trumpism as a bogeyman supposedly hiding within the Conservative movement. “What we’re seeing from these MAGA conservatives is an approach on going back on fundamental rights,” Trudeau told The Canadian Press in December . On the repeal of Roe v. Wade, Trudeau told CP, “we may think to ourselves, ‘This will never happen in Canada and this is just the Liberals bringing up the usual fear that they do'” — perhaps the most self-aware thing Trudeau has ever said. “It wasn’t ever supposed to happen in the United States either, and yet it did because of MAGA conservatism. The threat is real.” (Needless to say, the Republican desire to overturn Roe far predated Trump’s arrival on the political scene.) Trump 1.0 wasn’t disastrous for Canada, but past performance does not predict future results. It’s not absolutely certain that Trump 2.0 will do awful things, but instability is pretty much Trump’s stock in trade, and it’s Canada’s kryptonite. We don’t much plan for contingencies, whether they’re natural disasters, pandemics, wars or other forms of geopolitical upheaval. We don’t usually need to, thanks in large part to Washington."
Trudeau's politicization of national security imperils us all - "Who these compromised Conservatives are, Trudeau won’t say. His vague allegation is based on the work of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), which reported in June that Chinese officials interfered twice in Conservative leadership races. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can’t do anything to dispel it, because he won’t join NSICOP. And for good reason — it’s a trap. The committee exists outside the bounds of Parliament, legally speaking, which means its members aren’t entitled to the free-speech protections that normally protect MPs. (One principled soul, lawyer and professor Ryan Alford, is attempting to change the court’s mind on this front, but he’s so far been unsuccessful.) To receive full, unredacted NSICOP briefings — and with them, the names of anyone suspected of being under foreign influence — one must submit to a vow of silence that, if broken, attracts serious legal consequences. Poilievre can’t accept that gag because it could hinder his ability, as leader of the official Opposition, to hold the government to account. Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair agrees with this assessment... The bigger problem, though, is one that Trudeau doesn’t want to talk about: that the country, as a whole, has a foreign interference problem that has spun out of control under his watch... The problem persists because it’s a convenience for Trudeau. It’s well known now that students from China were bussed in to tip a Liberal nomination race in favour of a particular candidate — and that despite knowing this, Trudeau continues to insist that it’s acceptable to allow non-citizens to vote in nomination races, as his party does. To most, it’s a glaring security gap. To Trudeau, it’s bait for critics, who he’s quick to accuse of racism. This is a pattern that repeats at every opportunity: pandemics, wars, institutional integrity. In any subject area that calls for cross-party co-operation and long-term strategy, Trudeau destroys bridges and uses the rubble to bludgeon his opponents. The COVID-19 pandemic was a time for unity — and it was, for a time — but Trudeau, hungry for a majority government, eventually used it to polarize and divide Canadian society. He attacked the small minority of unvaccinated Canadians, attempting to inflame anger against them and anyone who erred on the side of freedom over even more restrictive mandates — that is, the Conservatives. Foreign relations, too, call for unity — but we don’t have it. To frame the Conservatives as disloyal and anti-Ukraine, Trudeau wove climate politics into his renewed trade deal with the embattled country. When the Opposition — which firmly supports Ukraine — predictably spoke out against the frivolous green clauses added to the trade agreement, Trudeau was quick to accuse them of supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin. And now, post-October 7, Trudeau toys with Canada’s historically friendly relationship with Israel by slapping trade bans on Canadian weapons destined for the country and angling his party toward recognizing Palestinian statehood without a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians — a stark departure from Canada’s historic stance on the issue. On this front, he’s limited his attacks against Poilievre — but only as long as his poll numbers call for doing so. Expect all this to get worse in November if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the United States election. While Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is probably our most important, it’s also a great beating stick for the Liberals to use against the Conservatives. Trudeau has attacked Trump numerous times because it serves him well, electorally, to conflate the former U.S. president with Canadian Conservatives. The throughline of Trudeau’s decision-making is easy to see. No matter what’s at stake — whether it be long-term international goodwill or the integrity of our own democracy — he’s willing to put politics over problem-solving if it’s at all possible. He doesn’t serve Canadians. He serves himself, at their cost."
Tasha Kheiriddin: Trudeau's interference allegations a dramatic act of self-preservation - "Trudeau may have miscalculated. In response to his revelations, Poilievre said the PM is lying, and challenged him to release the names of all the politicians – Conservative, Liberal, or whatever party — that he says are in cahoots with foreign powers. Trudeau testified on cross examination that he knew of Liberal parliamentarians who could also be compromised, but did not say what he was doing about this. Unless Trudeau really has a grenade in his pocket, and not a damp squib, this story might do little more than buy him time. A group of MPs is supposedly set to ask him to quit next week, and four more ministers have told the PMO they’re not running again. While it isn’t a full-throated caucus revolt, it’s hard to see how the PM can stay on if his team starts abandoning him... Trudeau’s gambit is thus not about sparing Canada from foreign interference. It’s the act of a desperate leader pulling the emergency cord on his own political trainwreck — even if it means derailing the entire political system to survive."
Carson Jerema: Trudeau Liberals A-OK with conspiracy theories when attacking Poilievre - "The Conservative leader has, so far, refused to get the necessary security clearance to view classified materials, because, he says, it would limit his ability to speak about foreign interference. Incidentally, the prime minister, his aides, and law enforcement are all largely in agreement on the fact that a security clearance does circumscribe what you can say. Former leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair agrees Poilievre has made the correct decision. “I think Poilievre was wise not to tie his hands,” he said in June... The Liberals might have a sliver of more credibility if their attacks on the Opposition leader didn’t come after they put so much effort into downplaying reports of Chinese election interference into multiple ridings, though the outcome of the elections were not ultimately affected. Trudeau has dismissed news reports of containing “clear falsehoods and inaccuracies” without fully explaining what those may be, and he has blamed “anti-Asian racism” as the reason people are interested in foreign meddling in the first place. If Poilievre had the names of those accused of working with foreign actors, it is not clear he could really do much with the information anyway. In fact, that was one of the reasons Trudeau gave for not removing Han Dong as a candidate in the 2019 election after CSIS warned of potential Chinese interference into Dong’s nomination race. Security officials had, Trudeau testified in the spring, “specified that this was secret information that we could not share with the candidate in question.” The prime minister also complained that the intelligence was not “sufficiently credible.” But all of a sudden, when the prime minister is facing a caucus revolt, Canadians are supposed to believe that Poilievre might not even pass a security clearance and that he is putting their lives at risk, and all without any evidence to back up the allegation. Do the Liberals realize they are the party in government?"
