Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding a news conference this morning to announce he’s stepping down as Liberal leader, sources tell CBC News.
Sources, who spoke to CBC on the condition they not be named, said Trudeau will stay on until his successor is chosen.
Trudeau will speak at 10:45 a.m. at Rideau Cottage, a news release from the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Given the uncertainty that hangs over its leadership, it’s not hard for Canadians to imagine a country without a fully functioning government.
Opposition parties are clamouring for an election, and no one knows if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will stay on or resign or if Parliament, assuming it resumes, will be dissolved following a vote of non-confidence. Public support for Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals is at an all-time low—16 percent according to the latest Angus Reid poll—while the wounds inflicted by Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet still fester.
OTTAWA – Monday could mark a historic week in Canadian politics if the growing chorus calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets its way.
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Trudeau is expected to announce he is stepping down as Liberal party leader as early as Monday.
Trudeau has faced mounting calls for his resignation from MPs in his caucus as public opinion polls have continued to put the governing Liberals trailing far behind the Conservatives.
The Prick is going to try and stay in power as long as possible.
We do not want him to prorogue parliament and serve as “interim PM”, “Party Leader” or even janitor.
We want an election.
Justin Trudeau is expected to announce as early as Monday that he will resign as Liberal Party Leader, three sources said Sunday, as the Prime Minister faces a caucus revolt and dismal public opinion polls that show his party will likely be swept out of power by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in a landslide victory.
The sources stressed that they don’t know definitely when Mr. Trudeau will announce his plans to leave but said they expect it will happen before a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to discuss internal party matters.
h/t PA Cat
Conservatives have postponed a series of announcements for tmrw b/c there is talk of something big on the Liberal side happening.
Liberal staff have been told to show up in person.
Does Justin Trudeau resign tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/19hm1aQPcw
— HoCStaffer (@HoCStaffer) January 5, 2025
Consensus leans to a prorogue of parliament followed by the punk’s resignation which buys the Liberals time to pick a new leader.
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces he will step down when Liberals meet for a special caucus meeting this coming week, it could trigger another cabinet shuffle, say senior Liberal sources.
A top Liberal told The Hill Times that only two people, including Prime Minister Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), are aware of whether he intends to stay or leave. When asked if the second person is the PMO’s chief of staff Katie Telford, the top Liberal responded, “That’s a fair assumption.”
It is not uncommon for incumbent prime ministers to keep their exit plans confidential until the last minute to maintain control of the government and the narrative. Once this information becomes public, they lose control of the government immediately.
In Canada, 2024 may eventually be remembered as the year of Milton Friedman’s revenge. Late in his life, the American sage of free markets said on a couple of different occasions that immigration was good, and the mass immigration to the New World of the early 20th century was especially good, but that radically open borders are incompatible with large contemporary welfare states. This may strike many as an uncontroversial claim, but Friedman has never been totally forgiven by radical open-borders libertarians who otherwise venerate him.
We need mass deportations of illegals and remigration of asylum seekers and Islamists.
The Canada Revenue Agency has waived nearly $2.5-billion in interest and penalties related to Ottawa’s tax on vacant and underused homes held by foreign owners, a figure that dwarfs the projected annual revenue of the new levy.
The underused housing tax (UHT), which took effect in 2022, imposes an annual tax of 1 per cent per year on residential properties owned by foreign nationals that are left underused or vacant, with the aim of boosting housing availability. But the levy’s complex reporting requirements initially also embroiled many Canadians, leading the CRA to repeatedly provide relief for late filers. The government eventually largely scrapped filing obligations for Canadian homeowners and corporations starting with the 2023 tax year.
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was back at work Friday but said nothing about his political future as MPs met behind closed doors to hash out what kind of pressure they could exert to force him to declare whether he’ll stay or go.
His caucus is frustrated by the silence. Regional caucus chairs met late in the day, and three MPs said that a national caucus meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, where they want Mr. Trudeau to reveal his decision. The Globe and Mail is not naming the MPs because they were not publicly authorized to disclose internal caucus discussions.
When it comes to political messaging, one rule is paramount: adapt or fade into irrelevance.
This week, we witnessed a striking contrast between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre’s media strategies, offering a masterclass in what to do – and what not to do – when it come to engaging with modern audiences.
Let’s start with Trudeau.
On Dec. 30, I got word that Mark Carney, a fellow who had occupied an uncertain role in momentous events for the past few weeks, had published a year-end op-ed over in the inferior national newspaper. I started hearing about Carney’s piece right away from wiseacre friends, ones who probably don’t realize how any writer shudders a little at such catcalling. (“What are they saying about me out of earshot?”) One of them called it a “perfect, featureless cube of unmeaning,” and another compared it to an “odourless, impenetrable vapour cloud.” I actually ended up setting aside Carney’s op-ed, saving it for a couple of days as a little treat.
You know things are bad in Canada when the country can’t even bring itself to deport what are obviously fake refugees.
This was the development earlier in December, when a federal judge decided last month to call off the deportation of an Eritrean family who claimed asylum status in Canada — despite already being citizens of Sweden. The judge did so because she figured the family’s children would suffer “irreparable harm” if they were made to move during the school year.
One thing has become clearer over this holiday season. Canada’s current political crisis presents a disturbing parallel to the erosion of democratic norms, typically associated with authoritarian regimes. As Chrystia Freeland’s resignation letter pointedly noted, “a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence.”
Yet the stark reality is that neither she nor an increasing number of Liberal MPs believe this government maintains the moral authority to govern.
To read the multitude of articles written by big-shot Liberals, fans of Justin, former fans of Justin, enemies of Poilievre, and a whole bunch of others who are just beginning to read the room, all that needs to be done is replace Trudeau with a new Liberal Party leader and the world will be A-OK once again.
A sleeper election issue is our sinking dollar, which fell this past year by nine per cent against the U.S. dollar, reaching its lowest level since April 2003. It now takes $1.44 in Canadian dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Flipping it over, $1 Canadian dollar costs just 69.4 U.S. cents.
