Trouble for Trudeau?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, announced Monday that she was resigning from the Cabinet.
The stunning move raised questions about how much longer the prime minister of nearly 10 years can stay on in his role as his administration scrambles to deal with incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Trudeau’s popularity has plummeted due to concerns about inflation and immigration.
Inflation and immigration, immigration and inflation – now, where have I heard that before?
And it’s amazing that so awful a leader has been in power for 10 years in Canada.
The issue seems to be this:
Freeland and Trudeau disagreed about a two-month sales tax holiday and $250 Canadian ($175) checks to Canadians that were recently announced. Freeland said that Canada is dealing with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping 25% tariffs and should eschew “costly political gimmicks” it can “ill afford.”
“Our country is facing a grave challenge,” Freeland said in the letter. “That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war.” …
The resignation comes as Freeland, who chaired a Cabinet committee on U.S. relations, was set to deliver the fall economic statement and likely announce border security measures designed to help Canada avoid Trump’s tariffs.
Apparently, until now Trudeau has been contemplating running for a fourth term. Makes you appreciate our 22nd Amendment. It also would be fascinating if it were Trump who’d be indirectly responsible for Trudeau’s exit.
Large chunks of the Commonwealth have gone prostrate before the god of the Nanny State. No better example than Castro’s offspring and the great white north.
Trudeau is struggling to hang on to his Prime Minstership. If Pierre Poilievre becomes Prime Minister of Canada, Trump’s second term could be a renaissance of liberty and free enterprise for the western hemisphere. Melei in Argentina, Bukele in El Salvador…
Western European progressives still have a strong hold on political leadership, but a strong, cohesive front on reducing the size and scope of government from Argentina, Canada, El Salvador and the U.S. could create an economic tsunami that helps populist movements in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium… Unfortunately England is in a tough spot, politically, and progressives seem more entrenched there.
Apparently, until now Trudeau has been contemplating running for a fourth term. Makes you appreciate our 22nd Amendment.
They don’t need a 22nd Amendment, as the PM serves at His Majesty’s pleasure and has no fixed term. Parliament can get rid of him any time. I’m not sure what “fourth term” means in this context unless it refers to a fourth general election which, if his party wins, he plans to continue as Prime Minister. He’s been elected to the House of Commons five times.
If the US President were a figurehead, and if the Speaker of the House were the head of government, we wouldn’t need a 22nd Amendment either. But we split our powers differently from the Westminster systems.
Perhaps Trudeau can go to Cuba and do for his father’s island what he has done for Canada.
@Yancey Ward:for his father’s island
I’m pretty sure Fidel Castro wasn’t able to impregnate anyone from a thousand miles away, which is roughly how far he was from Margaret Trudeau at the time of Justin Trudeau’s conception, but his father could certainly have been someone from some other Caribbean island. Or even possibly Pierre Trudeau.
Speaking of the Twenty-second, we have FDR (plus Congress and the Good Lord Above) to thank for saving us from Heaven knows how many Obama terms.
She is the person that really went after the Truckers. She is very far Left.
Rufus, France and Germany Gov’t in trouble, fighting to keep the “right” out of power. But hopefully won’t be able to do it for ever. England votes are none too happy about what they had done either. Starmer is trying to pull a fast one to keep out Farage too. Lots of turmoil going around
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I have likewise read that Fidel, a.k.a. El Caballo, could not have been Justin’s father, given the time frame and locations of the principals.
Nonetheless, wouldn’t it be great if Justin Trudeau exiled himself to Cuba, with the proviso that he access the healthcare system the ordinary Cuban uses –not the healthcare that foreigners access in Cuba. Ditto Michael Moore… 🙂
Trudeau’s whore mother and her pimp Pierre were in the Caribbean around the time the boy idiot was conceived, and they took a secret trip to parts unknown on that trip (Cuba). Look, he only ever got around 32 % of the vote but our system gave him the win, we all hate him but the marxist NDP keeps his government propped up. Everywhere in the west the ruling cliques are all destroying their countries as fast as they can. Trump gives us hope.
As Zeekster pointed out, parliamentary systems allow minority party candidates to become the PM. Just so in the UK. Labour’s won a huge majortiy. With about the same percentage of the vote.
Zekester:Trudeau’s whore mother and her pimp Pierre were in the Caribbean around the time the boy idiot was conceived
The Caribbean is a very large area, and they didn’t stop within a thousand miles of Cuba. They visited Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and an “unknown island” near Barbados, which is about a 1000 miles from Cuba.
and they took a secret trip to parts unknown on that trip (Cuba).
Only if they used teleportation or a time machine. I’m sure there were Caribbean islanders who had the opportunity to sire Justin Trudeau but Fidel Castro is not one of them.
Here is the Snopes take on it. Yes, there is a facial resemblance between Fidel Castro and Justin Trudeau, but there is also a facial resemblance between Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro.
Regarding the Trudeau couple’s visit to the Caribbean:
Is Justin Trudeau Fidel Castro’s Son?
@Gringo:Ottawa is closer to Havana than either Barbados or Trinidad and Tobago.
That’s one of those counterintuitive things like Reno, Nevada being west of Los Angeles, California. Easy to fix by spending more time looking at the globe. The most common maps we grew up with make the Caribbean look much smaller than things north of it.
I flew to China once from Seattle and we followed the Canadian coast up to Alaska, then the Siberian coast down to Beijing. On a flat map that looks weird, on the globe it looks like obviously the right way.
Friend of mine was surprised to fly from Iceland to Seattle over Alaska, but I showed him the globe and he saw it wasn’t that much of a detour as he thought.
Just out of curiosity I checked on how many people left Canada for the U.S.
Well, in 2022 that number was 126,340, supposedly a 70% increase from 2021.
God knows what that figure is today.
Election must be held by October 2025 but looks like much sooner.
I live in Northern Montana – an hour from Canada and vacation in Canada twice a year in Alberta and they can’t wait for this lunatic to be gone. Then again they didn’t vote for him.
Alberta is the Texas of Canada and is run by Danielle Smith who is premier. She is wonderful and I hope she is PM one day. I met her 15 years ago.
I saw the Alberta PM on Fox Business the other day. She’s eager to do business with the US.
His parents were prog twits the wandering coma didnt have stupid kids
Fidelilto, Fidel’s undoubted son, was a nuclear physicist. ‘Nuff said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro_D%C3%ADaz-Balart
He’s the prototypical girlie man.
The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is east of the Atlantic entrance.
Detroit is east of Atlanta. And north of Windsor, Ontario.
Full Video – President Trump Takes Question After Question From Reporters At Mar-A-Lago Press Briefing
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/12/full-video-president-trump-takes.html
I’m hoping PP has been keeping things close to the chest and as soon as he’s in the PM chair, a national regeneration program will be revealed. That would include a reduction in the annual issuance of settlers’ visas to 35,000, an end to work visas, a moratorium on educational visas, and setting the target value for the stock of temporary residents at 200,000. It would also have to include some revised policies on evaluating refugee claims, applied retroactively. Among them would be summary deportation of refugee claimants who skipped over other countries on their way to Canada and mandatory detention (or ankle monitoring) of those who have applied for refugee status. Declaring in law that children born in Canada have the civic status of their mother unless they are of legitimate birth and their father has a preferred status should be undertaken immediately. Requiring an applicant for naturalization have spent the majority of his natural life in the country as a lawful and palpable resident should also be instituted immediately. A requirement that those with a cognizable claim to citizenship in a foreign country renounce that claim if they want to keep their Canadian citizenship should also be enacted.