The day he took office for his “sunny” first term, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared in front of Ottawa’s Rideau Hall to present the first gender-balanced cabinet in Canadian history. He gave his succinct “because it’s 2015” explanation — a remark that became integral to his then-favourable political brand.
Standing in the front row, just behind his right shoulder, was freshly minted Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland.
The big news in Ottawa is that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned on principle and Justin Trudeau is now definitely doomed unless he’s not. Wow. But did she jump, or was she pushed?
Pushed. So the first really weird thing about this story is that plethora of news stories, including three separate pieces on the front page of a certain newspaper Monday, all using “resignation” or “quit,” (the fourth waited until page two). But we actually know she was fired.
Justin Trudeau took the Liberals from third-party status to a majority government in 2015 with his personal brand. Nine years later, his popularity and that of his party has faded, the latest blows being the resignation of senior cabinet ministers and calls from caucus members for Trudeau’s resignation.
Rebuilding the party from the bottom up, doing a broad review of core policies, and repositioning the party are some of the suggestions made by disenchanted insiders. They do not see the current approach, which has resulted in the Conservatives forging an over 20-point lead in the polls, as boding well for the future.
OTTAWA — President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff wars have claimed their first casualty: Canada’s Chrystia Freeland.
“The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau,” Trump shared on Truth Social late Monday night. “Her behavior was totally toxic and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be missed!!!!”
It will be a surprise if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t soon resign, something he should have done months ago.
Trudeau long ago lost the confidence of Canadians, and now lacks the support of top cabinet officers who have quit, as well as much of his own caucus.
There are several able potential successors to Trudeau in a Liberal leadership campaign that can’t begin soon enough.
This is from Blackie’s Star!
Some Liberal MPs said Tuesday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can’t carry on as party leader after the humiliation of Chrystia Freeland’s public resignation from cabinet and another bruising byelection loss in B.C.
The calls for Trudeau to resign are coming from some of the same people who have said he should go in the past.
But some MPs who previously were on the fence — or even defended the prime minister in the past — are now coming forward to say it’s time to turn the page on the Trudeau era.
When it comes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future at the helm, the writing is on the wall, in the air and on the minds of every Canadian too.
Everybody knows his time is up. Except for him.
In a world without Singh he would have been gone long ago.
Another by-election, another massive defeat for the governing Liberals. On Monday night, it was citizens in Cloverdale—Langley City, in Metro Vancouver, who delivered the blow. Two-thirds of voters opted for the Conservative, former MP Tamara Jansen, just 16 per cent voted Liberal Madison Fleischer, a 2021 university graduate who spent much of her campaign avoiding questions about her shaky claims to Metis heritage.
Someone give this guy his pension already so we can all head to the polls
The shallowest man in Canada had quite the day on Monday when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland launched her volley of Molotov cocktails on the way out the door. Years of hypocrisy, pandering, and spinelessness laid bare for all the world to see as now former minister Freeland apparently decided she had had quite enough of bilking Canadians and subjecting them to ludicrous policies for the sole purpose of political expediency. What will this poor man do now? I refer, of course, to Jagmeet Singh.
In fairness to the Prime Minister, who knew that if you spent three months undermining your own Finance Minister, refusing to express confidence in her while your underlings trash-talked her to the press, then told her over a Zoom call that you were about to move her out of her plum job into another with no staff or power or responsibilities but, by the way, would she please stay on long enough to deliver a mini-budget with a $62-billion deficit in it so you could make it look like that was why you were firing her and then give her job to Mark Carney, she would take it the wrong way? Women, eh?
If an election were held today, 45% of committed voters would vote Conservative, while 20% would vote Liberal, and 18% for the NDP. The BQ has 39% of the vote in Quebec. All of the movement from the last survey is within the margin of error but this represents the largest Conservative lead in our tracking history and the lowest Liberal vote share since 2015.
Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet on Monday has encouraged some Liberal MPs to double down on their efforts to push Prime Minister Justin Trudeau out of the top job.
Trudeau faced frustrated MPs at a hastily arranged caucus meeting on Monday night. One MP who was in the room told CBC News that most of the 15 MPs who spoke at the meeting said Trudeau has to step down after mismanaging his once-crucial relationship with Freeland,
A number of other MPs have now publicly called on the prime minister to step aside and let someone else lead the Liberals into the next election.
I have no idea what that pissant will do.
Worthwhile Canadian Resignation
It may be that Chrystia Freeland could have resigned even more dramatically from Justin Trudeau’s government in Canada, though it would have taken something akin to kneeing him in public. But after the humiliation the prime minister visited on one of his most loyal and talented Cabinet ministers, he should have seen it coming.
The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister is on the brink
Once the poster-boy for liberal politics, his popularity has waned and his approval rating has dipped below 30 per cent several times this year.
Trudeau in peril after spat over Trump threat sparks crisis
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been thrown into fresh disarray with the abrupt departure of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.
Canada: Trudeau’s Stumbling Government Appears on Verge of Collapse
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been fending off no-confidence votes and calls for his resignation for months, found his position increasingly perilous on Monday following the resignation of his deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland.
Justin Trudeau Nears the End in Canada
Canada’s press is reporting that Justin Trudeau may resign as Prime Minister, and why keep the country in pain any longer? The Liberal government has been on political life support for some time, and our neighbors to the north deserve a new election.
Trudeau’s own party turn on him to resign
Justin Trudeau is under mounting pressure – including from his own MPs – to step down as Canada’s prime minister before the end of the year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in Monday’s Fall Economic Statement indicated plans to spend $597.9 Million over three years to confiscate Canadians’ firearms.
So far Ottawa has blown through roughly $100 million already in attempts to collect government-licensed firearms — without collecting a single gun.
Last Friday, the prime minister fired his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, who shocked the country by resigning from cabinet on Monday, hours before the fall economic statement (FES) was set to be tabled. Yet obvious tension between the two made the resignation less surprising, especially since the FES abandoned any lingering pretense of fiscal prudence, along with Freeland’s primary fiscal guardrail — a cap on the 2023-24 deficit at $40.1 billion.
