On Jan. 19, 2023, then-New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern stunned her country by announcing her resignation.
She’d been in office for just five years, and was only two years removed from a massive landslide majority. But the pandemic had taken a toll, on both her (politically) and the country. Her Labour Party had fallen behind the centre-right National Party in the polls.
Will the people who decide who the next Liberal leader, and therefore next prime minister of Canada, is even be Canadian?
That’s not a crazy or racist comment as the governing party heads into a leadership race, it’s a comment based on their rules for voting.
The Liberal Party allows people who are non-citizens of Canada and who are as young as 14 to vote in leadership races. All the parties have rules that are too loose, but the Liberals have the craziest rules of all.
Tell me again that the Liberal Party doesn’t hate Canada.
The outgoing Canadian prime minister was a ‘progressive’ fraud and a liar. History will judge him harshly.
Watching Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce that he was quitting on a chilly Monday morning in Ottawa, I was reminded of the moment when battered prize fighter, Roberto Duran, raised his hands in a boxing ring and said: “No mas [No more].”
It was a merciful and predictable denouement to an unexpected political career that had begun with promise and expectations and has ended engulfed by rejection and recriminations.
On Jan. 6, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he was stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. This is a big step that for some time has been greatly longed for by the vast majority of Canadians who can no longer tolerate him. But the significance of this move can only be understood in the details.
Trudeau was facing a no-confidence vote brought by the Conservatives and slated for Jan. 27 when parliament was scheduled to go back into session. But before making his announcement, Trudeau asked Governor General Mary Simon to prorogue parliament for 11 weeks until March 24 so the no-confidence vote could no longer happen. This is the longest that parliament has ever been prorogued in Canadian history. Parliament must meet by the end of March because the government will run out of money without a new budget by then.
While Monday was a day celebrated by many in Canada and around the world, there were others who were devastated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he will be stepping down as Liberal leader and PM.
h/t Mauser
A dozen years ago, Justin Trudeau’s first speech as an official Liberal leadership candidate in Calgary seemed to extend an olive branch to Alberta’s oil and gas sector.
“It is wrong to use our natural wealth to divide Canadians against one another, it was the wrong way to govern in Canada in the past,” the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau told the crowd at the Dashmesh Culture Centre in October 2012.
Among the frontrunners to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister are his onetime babysitter, a former Bank of England governor and an ex-minister whose own shock resignation foreshadowed Trudeau’s demise.
Trudeau, 53, announced he would step down as Liberal leader on Monday morning, citing the paralysis that has gripped the Canadian parliament as a key factor in his decision. He will remain in office until a replacement is chosen.
Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign as prime minister has jolted his ailing Liberal party, kicking off a leadership race that could determine the future – or the demise – of Canada’s “natural governing party”.
On a frigid Monday morning, Trudeau said that while “every bone in my body tells me to fight”, a procedural standstill in parliament, as well as his dismal polling numbers, meant there was no path forward to contest a fourth term as leader.
His decision to step away from a job he has held for nearly a decade comes as the party’s political fortunes are in freefall, suffering the loss of key political strongholds in recent byelections and the abdication of prominent cabinet ministers.
The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada—or, at least, as the leader of the Liberal Party, until a new leader is chosen, which will amount to the same thing—took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa. It was a very Canadian setting, with the soon-departing figure of the still young Trudeau wearing an overcoat and gloves, and the smoky breath of winter rising from his mouth as he talked. He spoke in French and then in English and back again and, for Canadians abroad, there was something oddly moving in the easy bilingualism of the occasion. Taken as utterly normal in Canada, it still signals a remarkable and too easily taken for granted co-existence of two “founding peoples” that dates back to the early nineteenth century and the country’s beginnings. Canada, from far away, has always seemed the model liberal country, and this multiculturalism—extended since to the many ethnic tiles of the “Canadian mosaic”—is part of it.
With his announced and yet delayed resignation, Justin Trudeau has put Canada in a horrible position. After weeks of seemingly having no one in charge, we now have a lame-duck PM, at the very moment, we need a government with a strong mandate.
Canada’s opposition leader has accused Justin Trudeau’s party of clinging to power to protect their pensions after the prime minister resigned and suspended parliament.
Mr Trudeau, 53, told the country on Monday he would stand down after almost a decade in post, following a Liberal Party leadership election to replace him.
The announcement came amid a crisis at the top of his government, which culminated in the resignation of Chrystia Freeland, his finance minister, and a revolt of Liberal MPs in December.
Nothing has changed.
Every Liberal MP and Leadership contender supported EVERYTHING Trudeau did for 9 years, and now they want to trick voters by swapping in another Liberal face to keep ripping off Canadians for another 4 years, just like Justin.
The only way to fix what… pic.twitter.com/YnNYANTs1y
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 6, 2025
Can Ottawa solve the problem of millions of expiring Canadian visas?
“We didn’t turn the taps down fast enough,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller said last month.
He was admitting the Liberal government, after opening up migration volumes to extraordinary levels, took too long to slow down the recent rush of newcomers: three million in just three years.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he will resign as prime minister and Liberal leader once the party chooses a successor. Trudeau, who was first elected on Oct. 19, 2015, steps down after nearly a decade in power. Here are the key pieces of his political legacy.
Some legacy.
Good take.
"What’s happening in Canadian politics is not happening in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a much broader phenomenon. Call it the great crack-up of the old consensus.
The old consensus held that immigration was an absolute good, with multiculturalism the end goal. Arguments…
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) January 7, 2025
Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he would resign was the last card that Canada’s deeply unpopular prime minister, who had set his party on course to lose a national election, had left to play.
The political levers he has pulled will give Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party a chance to reinvent itself without him. But they will also leave Canada weakened as it braces for President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has threatened the country with tariffs that could cripple its economy.
It appears to be a gamble that Mr. Trudeau is willing to take.
He’s a hateful narcissist.
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, said he’s considering entering the race to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister.
Carney said he’s “encouraged and honored by the support that I’ve already been hearing” from Liberal lawmakers and supporters “who want us to move forward with positive change and a winning economic plan.”
“I’ll be considering this decision closely with my family over the coming few days,” Carney, 59, said in a statement emailed by a spokesperson.
