Trudeau will stay as prime minister for transition, but the timeline is up to his successor

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his last day in office will depend on how long of a transition his successor needs.

Trudeau announced on Jan. 6 he would resign once the Liberal leadership race concludes, which will happen on Sunday.

I bet.

h/t Patti Jo

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23 percent of Canadians are unable to buy sufficient food

As the upcoming Canadian federal election looms large, two key issues—health care and affordability—are competing for attention amid the Trump tariffs controversy. While the tariffs are both urgent and significant, their dominance in the discourse has overshadowed other critical concerns, particularly the worsening affordability crisis. But for everyday Canadians, these fundamental underlying issues are not so easily ignored.

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Forget the ‘popularity contest’ of the Liberal leadership race — this former Liberal MP says he’s the one who can fix his broken party

OTTAWA—He’s campaigning as an “outsider” far from the unpopular Justin Trudeau brand. He believes he’s the candidate with the economic savviness necessary for Canada to prosper.

And he’s in the race because he wants to overhaul the way Canadian politics work. No, it’s not Mark Carney.

His name is Frank Baylis.

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Britain Can Nuke Trump To Protect Canada , Says Bonkers Chrystia Freeland

British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

Canada should seek closer ties with Britain because its nuclear weapons can help protect the country against Donald Trump, a female politician running to replace Justin Trudeau has said.

Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister under Justin Trudeau, said that Mr Trump is “clearly threatening our sovereignty” with his campaign to absorb Canada as the 51st state of America.

In order to “guarantee our security”, Ms Freeland said she would build closer security partnerships with European Nato allies and “I would be sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons”.

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Tariff war? Thank the Liberals

In the fact-free world of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, their screw-ups are always someone else’s fault.

They have been in charge of the federal government during every single day of Donald Trump’s two terms as president, from Jan. 20, 2017, to Jan. 20, 2021, and now from Jan. 20, 2025, to the present.

That means they wear the current dismal state of Canada-U.S. relations and the start of an economically devastating tariff war with the U.S. on Tuesday.

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She says she ‘outsmarted’ Pierre Poilievre. Now Karina Gould believes she has what it takes to be Canada’s next prime minister

OTTAWA — Talk of who would be Justin Trudeau’s successor was happening in Ottawa well before he walked out of Rideau Cottage in early January and told the nation he was bowing out.

There were short lists and long lists, cabinet ministers who were quietly organizing and many who were expected to be serious leadership contenders, but Karina Gould’s was not a name that often came up in those conversations.

I think that mask cut off oxygen to her brain.

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Matthew Lau: Mark Carney is nothing like Paul Martin

Mark Carney, a senior advisor to the Trudeau government since 2020, is now trying to disown Trudeau’s disastrous fiscal and economic record and instead latch on to the much stronger record of a previous Liberal government. “It was my privilege to work with Paul Martin when he balanced the books — and kept the books balanced,” Carney said last week.

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Summit of the Lame Duck Dhimmis: Provocative Trump statements about Canada loom large as Trudeau meets King

King Charles has met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under the shadow of inflammatory statements made about Canada by US President Donald Trump.

Trump has repeatedly spoken of making the neighbouring country the 51st state of America. He has also vowed to impose new import taxes on Canada, which is one of his top trading partners.

Speaking ahead of his meeting with the King at Sandringham, outgoing PM Trudeau said he would discuss issues of importance to Canadians, including “standing up for our sovereignty and our independence as a nation”.

The King has also extended an invitation to Trump to visit him in what will be an unprecedented second state visit.


Charles won’t even stand up for his own people, then again neither does Trudeau. They have their submission to Islam in common.

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Before electing Mark Carney as leader, the Liberals should pause for a moment of reflection

A caution from the philosopher George Santayana to members of the Liberal Party of Canada: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Step back, therefore, to the night of Feb. 28, 1984. Prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, father of Justin Trudeau, goes on a long, solitary walk through an Ottawa snowstorm and decides that the time has come for him to resign.

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LEDREW: Liberal Party members would be smart to reject Carney

By Sunday, 400,000 adherents of the Justin Party (formerly the Liberal Party of Canada) are expected to have voted to select the next prime minister of Canada.

No matter that 300,000 of these were just recently signed up as people seriously interested in politics only since the incumbent, Justin Trudeau, forced from office by a populace fed up with his expensive, ineffective, and corrupt government, announced his intention to resign.

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