FILDEBRANDT: Trudeau’s post-national state is now prey to become a post-state nation

“Spare me the false sense of duty to country. Spare me the beseechment to defend what you have defiled. Trudeau’s post-national state is now prey to become a post-state nation.”

Soon after becoming prime minister in 2015, Justin Trudeau declared that Canada as a distinctive nation, was dead.

‘‘There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values — openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.’’

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Is Trudeau’s resignation enough to keep Liberals in power?

Poll suggests no

A majority of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to step down, yet his announcement this week has not changed the Liberal party’s fortunes, new polling suggests.

Eight in 10 (81 per cent) Canadians said they are in favour of Trudeau’s resignation, with more than half saying they “strongly approve” of it, according to an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released on Wednesday.

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What will Canada’s second Trudeau era leave behind?

In an interview in December 2022, Justin Trudeau allowed himself to talk about legacy.

He has typically avoided entertaining such stuff. But sitting in his West Block office a little more than two years ago, he spoke of “unfinished business” and a desire to “lock in what Canada is doing as an open, progressive, confident democracy.” And when it was pointed out to him that it sounded like he was talking about a legacy, he didn’t entirely run away from the idea.

“I don’t expect that when the dust settles and I’m a paragraph in some history book, 30 years from now, people are going to be able to point [to the equivalent of] multiculturalism or the [Charter of Rights and Freedoms] as the big legacies or the big consequence,” he told me.

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The mass migration disaster will be Trudeau’s legacy

Canadians who don’t adhere to Justin Trudeau’s woke globalist ideology breathed a sigh of relief on Monday when he finally announced his imminent retirement from politics.

But that is no reason to celebrate. He destroyed Canada on every possible level with his lunatic far-Left policies.

His Liberal Party used to be a pragmatic centre-Left party. Trudeau threw this overboard with a decade of massive spending, deficits, low growth, inflation and a doubling of our national debt; relentless interventionism; the creation of new unsustainable social programs; and no increase whatsoever in our standard of living during this whole period.

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Some Liberal MPs want to reconsider ‘divisive and difficult’ carbon tax in leadership race

OTTAWA — The upcoming race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a chance for Liberals to return the party to the political centre, some of its members of Parliament say, with others hoping his exit means Liberals can turn the page on what has become one of its most controversial legacies: the consumer carbon tax.

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Two-term MPs lost guaranteed pension with prorogation

A bill guaranteeing pension payments for dozens of MPs elected in 2019 lapsed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to prorogue Parliament, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

The next fixed election date under the Canada Elections Act is Monday, October 20. MPs first elected in 2019 would not meet the minimum six years’ seniority needed to qualify for a pension until Tuesday, October 21.

h/t Mauser

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How Justin Trudeau’s charm soured

In the spring of 2013, Justin Trudeau, then newly elected as leader of the federal Liberals, gave a speech at a downtown Toronto hotel, comically heavy on bromides and platitudes.

In what would become his signature style of oratory, he made sweeping generalizations that lacked specific evidence. Canadians had a unique tendency toward hope and progress and hard work, he said, perhaps unaware that this was about as meaningful as saying we had arms and feet and eyes.

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Canada Suddenly Has No Leader, and No Plan, for a Trump Trade Fight

TORONTO—After President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, Canadian officials began racing to rebuild “Team Canada”—the bipartisan group of federal, provincial and business officials led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who pushed back against Trump’s tariffs in 2018.

Today, Team Canada has a problem: It is leaderless.

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Trudeau Brought Woe to Canada

Ruinous economic policy, worse government services, and widespread social disorder — these are the results of his nine years.

Justin Trudeau has finally announced that he will resign as Prime Minister of Canada as soon as the Liberal Party elects a replacement leader. The announcement followed his botched firing attempt of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, last month, preempted by her resignation on the day she was to deliver the government’s economic statement, throwing Trudeau’s already troubled leadership into further turmoil. Ahead of his resignation, the Liberal Party’s Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic caucuses all called for Trudeau to step down, effectively making his continued leadership impossible.

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The Liberals could be crushed in the next election. Why would anyone want to lead them?

MY EYESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back in 2012, when Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he would resign, Kathleen Wynne says many people were asking the same questions: Who would run for leadership of the provincial Liberal party and — more importantly, given its grim prospects at the time — why would anyone want to?

“I made a decision to run for the leadership in that context, fully expecting that I wouldn’t win, but also that we were on a path to lose [the next election],” Wynne — who succeeded McGuinty as both leader and premier — told CBC News.

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How Justin Trudeau captured the zeitgeist, and how he lost it

Gunga Justin

TORONTO – In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was “cool.” In the year that followed his majority sweep into power, he appeared in the pages of Vogue, on the cover of a Marvel comic book and on “The Daily Show,” chatting with an up-and-coming Hasan Minhaj.

But the same strategy experts and observers say put him in the public eye and won him the youth vote in 2015 may have brought damning scrutiny as political tides changed, particularly as his rivals adopted his online style.

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The Liberals open the door to foreign interference

It has come to our attention over the past few years that Canada has a foreign interference problem, and that a key vulnerability is the lax rules governing federal-party nomination and leadership campaigns.

Maybe you heard about it, too. If so, could you please let the Liberal Party of Canada know? Its brain trust appears not to have a clue and so far is not rewriting its membership rules to shield its upcoming leadership race from meddling.

That race, necessitated by Justin Trudeau’s impending resignation, will not be just any leadership contest, because the winner will automatically become prime minister of Canada.

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Under Trudeau: Record illegal crossings at border, terrorism threats

(The Center Square) – As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plan to resign on Monday, questions remain about his administration’s border security policies and increased terrorism threats in Canada that partially contributed to the demands for his resignation.

At a news conference on Monday, Trudeau said he planned to resign after his party picked a replacement. Critics argue it was an attempt to avoid a vote of no confidence when parliament reconvenes on Jan. 27, which would prompt a call for a new election.

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