Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Justin Trudeau, who promised “sunny ways” as he won an election on a wave of public fatigue with an incumbent Conservative government, is now facing his darkest and most uncertain political moment as he attempts to defy the odds – and a bitter public – to win a rare fourth term.

The Canadian prime minister appears to have ignored both the demands of a handful of his own MPs calling for him to resign and threats from a separatist party looking to unravel his party’s tenuous hold on power.

Nearly two dozen backbench Liberal MPs signed a letter last week calling for the prime minister to step down amid fears within the party that his unpopularity could lead to a crushing electoral defeat in the coming months. The letter was separate from a “code red” petition to grassroots party supporters calling for a secret ballot vote on Trudeau’s leadership.

Plagued with caucus dissent, a gridlocked minority Parliament, bleak public opinion polls, and a mounting slate of domestic and foreign policy problems, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces an immense challenge to carry on effectively in his job.

“More and more Liberals are recognizing Trudeau can’t recover, and they would like a chance of winning the next election,” said pollster Greg Lyle, president of Innovative Research, in an interview with The Hill Times.

Lyle said the prime minister’s circumstances are “only going to get worse.”

In February, 1978, pollsters told Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan that he was facing certain defeat in an election that could no longer be avoided. Despite the rout forecast, Mr. Regan wasn’t discouraged. Blessed with an irrepressible ego and supported by enthusiastic partisans, he believed that beating the Conservatives would be easy. That wasn’t the case. In September of that year, his Liberal government was summarily defeated. “Honest” John Buchanan held the premier’s office for the next 12 years.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rebuffed calls to step aside last week — but that doesn’t mean the disaffected Liberal MPs who called on him to quit have given up the fight.

Some of the MPs who said the prime minister should resign by today or face some unspecified consequences are now trying to push a secret ballot caucus vote on Trudeau’s future.

Some MPs say that if Trudeau won’t go willingly in the face of this caucus revolt, they want to try to force him out of the job another way.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dodged a bullet from his own party last week.

A document signed by 24 caucus members set out the reasons why they think he should resign. One surprise element in the document was the deadline for his decision.

He has been told in no uncertain terms that he must make his future known one way or the other by Monday, Oct. 28.

Tequila Sheila wrote this.

… It’s not an easy thing to stand in front of a party leader — a prime minister — and tell him he should resign. It’s not an easy thing when that prime minister doesn’t like criticism and surrounds himself with people who tend to protect him from advice he doesn’t want to hear. It’s not an easy thing when cabinet and parliamentary secretary positions — and the perks and future income potential that go along with them — are being dangled to colleagues. It’s not an easy thing when one’s nomination papers — to run as a Liberal in the next election — haven’t been signed.

And it is not an easy thing when there is no obvious plan B.

Canada’s reliance on food banks has soared to a grim new milestone, according to data from Food Banks Canada.

The organization says it recorded more than two million visits in March 2024 – nearly double the monthly visits five years ago in March 2019, and six per cent above last year’s record-breaking figure.

For days now Canada’s political commentariat have been writing feverishly about the drama surrounding this weeks failed Liberal caucus revolt. The general consensus attributes the botched coup to the Liberal party constitution which robs caucus of the power to force their leader to resign.

But what they lacked wasn’t power, it was conviction and courage.

After surviving an abortive party revolt this week and with his personal popularity ratings in free fall, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking for ways to regain control of the narrative. And he may have just found one in the form of a major policy U-turn pledging to cut the country’s immigration targets. Flanked by immigration minister Marc Miller, Trudeau announced a 21% cut to next year’s permanent resident arrivals, from 500,000 to 395,000. This is to be followed by further cuts to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.

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