Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had every opportunity to craft a dignified end to his near-decade leading Canada. He could have listened to the clear message from Canadians that they’d enough of him. He could have seen that nothing the Liberals tried reversed their long slide in popularity. He could have chosen his moment.

Now, the moment has been chosen for him. It is now. Chrystia Freeland has put a noose around his neck and pulled the trap. The finance minister’s resignation, and the way she did it, effectively ends the Trudeau government.

It took Chrystia Freeland’s exit letter for the former federal finance minister to say what business leaders, and a vast chunk of the population, have long wanted to hear her tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

It’s time to get serious, said Ms. Freeland as she quit the federal cabinet on Monday, after Mr. Trudeau told her on Friday he planned to move her out of the Finance Department. Time to “recognize the gravity of the moment” by partnering with premiers to face the existential threat posed by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s planned tariffs. Time to deal with persistent productivity problems.

Hours after Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister and left cabinet on Monday, the Trudeau government presented its 2024 Fall Economic Statement (FES) to the House of Commons. The statement provides an update on government finances and the budget plan the government introduced earlier this year.

Chrystia Freeland lost confidence in Justin Trudeau — and she showed it in the most damaging way possible

It wasn’t Chrystia Freeland’s announcement Monday that she was quitting as finance minister that marked the third and final act of Justin Trudeau’s government.

It was how she quit. How she tried to define what siding with the prime minister says about Liberals — MPs and cabinet ministers alike — and in doing so paved the way for deeper internal divisions and the impending showdown waiting in the wings.

Trudeau and Freeland did this …

Here it is: “the speech.” pic.twitter.com/RXoR4uaGAk

— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) December 17, 2024

Justin Trudeau has had many bad days as prime minister. But Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 will likely come to be seen as his worst. Recovery, to be blunt, seems impossible.

It is not only the surprise resignation of his deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, but the blazing way in which she departed, with a damning letter and a not-so-veiled warning that Trudeau’s time is running out. “Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end,” Freeland wrote.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life. Behind closed doors.

At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came to face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned to go explain the crisis to the Liberal party’s top donors.

This will make you vomit.

Justin Trudeau – Full speech at his first public appearance since the resignation of both Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Housing Minister Sean Fraser.

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Gatineau, Que. Dec 16, 2024

What do you think – is he staying or is this his… pic.twitter.com/SKPS7yzD0E

— Bret (@Bret_Sears) December 17, 2024

If you squint and use a little imagination, you can see the pile of brains sitting outside the cabinet room on Parliament Hill. That pile has been sitting there for nearly a decade, heavy with the organs of the men and women who hold some of the most powerful positions in Canada’s government. These ministers have been expected to remove them from their skulls before they enter the room, so that the vacant space in their heads can be filled with nonsense directly from the Prime Minister’s Office.

A loyal asshole is still an asshole.

Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister who led Canada’s response to the first Trump administration, resigned abruptly on Monday from the cabinet in a stinging rebuke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, marking the first open dissent from any cabinet member and raising questions about his hold on power.

The revelation, in a letter of resignation, came hours before Ms. Freeland, who had been the finance minister, was scheduled to outline the government’s commitments to improve border security with the United States as part of an interim budget.

A STUDY of millions of citizens shows that covid vaccination ‘significantly increased’ the risks for depression, anxiety, various stress disorders and sleep problems. The same study showed the vaccinations ‘significantly decreased’ the risk for developing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

In a speech to a feminist political charity in Ottawa Tuesday night, Justin Trudeau lamented the election of Donald Trump as a setback for women’s progress.

“I want you to know that I am, and always will be, a proud feminist,” he said. “You will always have an ally in me and in my government.”

On Friday, the proud feminist had a meeting with Canada’s first female finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, and told her that he intended to replace her, presumably with Mark Carney, on Tuesday.

Not to put too fine a point on it, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh evidently has more confidence in Justin Trudeau than Trudeau’s own finance minister has.

After all, Singh hasn’t quit, has he?

Instead, it’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland who resigned today rather than deliver a fall economic update that is rumoured to report a $62 billion deficit.