Justin Trudeau said today – in what was one of, if not his final press conference as prime minister – that he won’t try to stay on in a caretaker capacity once his successor is named.
Appearing to get emotional at times when talking about his decade in power, Trudeau said he is looking forward “to a transition to my duly elected successor in the coming days or week.”
Justin Trudeau is crying. pic.twitter.com/jhCCSvqluD
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 6, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will temporarily waive tariffs on products from Mexico that fall under the North American free trade agreement, two days after launching a continental trade war.
The announcement did not mention Canada, which is also facing sweeping tariffs, despite Trump’s commerce secretary saying earlier that both countries would “likely” see a reprieve. It came shortly after Trump levelled new attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a heated exchange Wednesday.
Update: Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2
h/t Shasta
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.
… According to multiple Liberal sources with knowledge of what happened at Wednesday’s virtual national caucus meeting — including an MP who was there — Joly suggested that she has not yet briefed the other Liberal leadership candidates.
OTTAWA — Despite Canada facing a devastating trade war with the potential to wreak billions in economic losses, taking April’s carbon tax increase off the table doesn’t seem to be on the Trudeau Liberals’ radar.
For a Harvard and Oxford University graduate, Mark Carney has done some head-shakingly dumb things lately.
The lust for power may have scrambled his brain, or it could be that as he morphs into a Liberal politician he has adopted some of the worst tropes associated with those who seek elected office: a casual relationship with the truth, embellishing achievements and a reliance on non-existent facts.
The Justin Trudeau era is ending, after nine-and-a-half years as prime minister. His exit coincides with the onset of a trade crisis with the United States. Trudeau leaves behind a stagnant Canadian economy crippled by dwindling productivity, a long stretch of weak business investment, and waning global competitiveness. These are problems Trudeau chose to ignore throughout his tenure. His successors will not have that luxury.
NDP MP Niki Ashton is raising questions about Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s trickery and conflicts of interest, the first of her party to do so.
Leftists party members and media alike have widely favoured the un-elected Carney as the frontrunner of Sunday’s leadership contest — the winner of which will become Canada’s next prime minister.
Mark Carney thinks he’s a Big Man.
The former Bank of England governor is bigger and better than all of us. Especially reporters and media he doesn’t agree with. That’s why he thinks he’s got what it takes to be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
He portrays himself as a ‘man of the people’.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy should be a cause for celebration in Ottawa. After all, Trump is only finishing the job the Trudeau government started: systematically crippling the energy sector in pursuit of their net-zero dream.
It’s hard to imagine Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault or his Liberal predecessors, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, shedding a tear over this development. These are the same people who have spent years declaring oil and gas the great evil of our time. Now, the tariffs are here to speed up the decline of an industry they have worked tirelessly to strangle with regulations.
Far from the political spotlight and prying eyes, the process has already begun.
When the next Liberal leader is announced on March 9, it will mark the end of the leadership campaign triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign.
However, experts say the process to transition to the next prime minister begins well before that day. Before any new Liberal leader decides to plunge Canada into an early federal election, there are legal and technical steps they must first take.
Trump: Governor Trudeau called about tariffs—I told him to fix fentanyl at the border.
He had no answer. Weak policies, deadly consequences.
Now he's using this to stay in power. Not good enough! pic.twitter.com/kHB0qmjblo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2025
Negative feelings about Pierre Poilievre pushing some voters toward Liberals, poll suggests
OTTAWA — Worsening feelings for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are helping push Canadian voters towards the federal Liberal party, a new poll suggests.
In an online survey published Wednesday, Pollara Strategic Insights found that 34 per cent of respondents were more open to voting for the governing Liberals by mid-February than at the end of last year.
A) It’s Blackie’s Star
B) It’s an online poll
OTTAWA — The reality and the pain of a Donald Trump-led trade war set in Tuesday, and the tariff theatrics got weirder.
After the U.S. president slapped all Canadian and Mexican products with a 25 per cent import duty and a 10 per cent levy on oil and gas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau channelled this country’s sense of dismay, betrayal and fury. He authorized counter-tariffs to fight back in an “unjustified” trade war launched by Trump whom he said is using border concerns as a pretext to collapse this country’s economy and “annex us.”
If after 10 years of ruinous Trudeau governance you regard the absolute worst PM ever as a patriot then you belong in the loony bin.
U.S.-eh? Who are the Canadians who would support a 51st state?
Fringe groups support the notion of joining the United States in the face of Trump’s threats
It may surprise and even enrage many people to know there are Canadians out there who wouldn’t mind this country becoming the 51st state of the U.S.
It’s a small number, to be sure: About 10 per cent of Canadians say they would support Canada joining the U.S., according to a poll by the Angus Reid Institute, completed in January.
Ryan Hemsley, who lives in Victoria, sees himself in that camp.
Samuel Johnson – “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Often the 1st frankly.
Trudeau is no patriot and the CBC just a mouthpiece for his Globalist scams.
The mainstream media wants you to believe Mark Carney is the man who will successfully fight against President Trump and win the tariff war. However, Carney would be even worse than Justin Trudeau.
He began his campaign to become the leader of the Liberal Party, stating he was an “outsider.” This was a stretch. In fact, he is the consummate insider. He is the insider sitting in the backroom whom the face of the party listens to for counsel, even when the members of the party have spoken in opposition, as in the case of PM Trudeau.
