Trudeau says he’s staying on, despite demands from upset MPs

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed he plans to stay put as Liberal leader past the deadline of next Monday given to him by around two dozen of own his caucus members, asking him to heed their call to step aside.

Trudeau was provided that date in a letter read aloud to him during Wednesday’s closed-door caucus meeting, which sources described as an airing of long-simmering grievances about the party’s troubles, leading to 30 Liberal members of Parliament calling on Trudeau to step down.

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GREEN: Trudeau’s regulations threaten Ontario’s ability to meet electricity demand

A new report from Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator(IESO) suggests that electric vehicles and artificial intelligence facilities will drive a massive increase in demand for electricity in Ontario’s not-too-distant future.

The IESO estimates that overall electricity demand will grow by a projected 75% by 2050, which is higher than the 60% increase previously forecasted. The IESO attributes that growth in demand to a number of factors including industrial electric vehicle (EV) production and data centres (increasingly AI-driven).

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Trudeau and the Liberals are burning time on themselves that they can’t afford to waste

When Justin Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on April 14, 2013, he took the helm of a caucus of 35 MPs — the smallest contingent in the party’s history. Twenty-four of those MPs had endorsed him during the leadership campaign.

Some 4,210 days later, the Liberal caucus gathered for its usual Wednesday morning meeting. There, the prime minister was told that 24 MPs believe it’s time for him to step aside as leader.

Two dozen MPs would have accounted for fully two-thirds of the Liberal caucus in 2013. That they now account for just a sixth of the current caucus is a testament to the success the party has enjoyed under Trudeau’s leadership over the last 11 years.

CBC urges the LPC to unite or something …

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Liberals limp out of confrontation without closure

Is the Liberal rebellion over? What was the outcome? A lot of the people who were in the caucus room don’t really know.

Will Liberal MPs have another internal conversation about whether Justin Trudeau should step down? “Oh, I would think there’s a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth,” Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski said just outside Parliament.

Justin’s vanity demands he prove his naysayers wrong and win the next election and to hell with all of Canada.

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Liberals Put Band-Aid On Gaping Axe Wound They Inflicted: Canada will slash 2025 target for permanent residents by 21 per cent

Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.

Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.


The damage is done. Housing crisis, depressed wages, depressed GDP, inaccessible public services, social strife from incompatible cultures, all this will be Trudeau’s legacy.

It will take years for Canada to dig itself out of the mess Trudeau’s Liberal Party created. I am doubtful it can.

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Premiers should take Trudeau’s carbon tax back to court

The cracks in the legal rationale for the federal carbon tax are growing. New Brunswick’s outgoing Premier Blaine Higgs was right to keep chipping away at them.

Federal carbon tax “carve-outs violate the Supreme Court’s ruling,” New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party said when Higgs announced he would launch a new legal challenge against the tax.

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B.C. Liberal MP Weiler read a letter to Trudeau and caucus on behalf of dissenting MPs, calling for the prime minister’s resignation

One Liberal MP described the meeting as ‘the first time we’ve had a caucus meeting where people actually spoke their mind.’

Two-term B.C. Liberal MP Patrick Weiler read out a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the party’s national caucus meeting on Oct. 23, telling the full Liberal caucus that 24 MPs have signed the document calling for the leader’s resignation by Oct. 28, according to Liberal sources.

Weiler (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, B.C.), who was unavailable for an interview by deadline, was the first speaker at the highly anticipated Oct. 23 Liberal national caucus meeting. The letter was later handed over to Trudeau (Papineau, Que.). The document contained only the text of the letter, but not the signatures of the 24 dissident MPs.

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Voting to topple the government not out of the question, says Liberal MP Ken McDonald

A Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador MP who has signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign says going against the government on a non-confidence vote isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Ken McDonald is one of a reported 24 MPs who signed the document calling for Trudeau’s resignation, following a sharp drop in leader and party popularity.

The letter was presented to Trudeau at the party’s national caucus meeting on Wednesday.

Something’s gotta give.

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Trudeau government claims it’s going to slash immigration levels …

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will announce a dramatic immigration cut Thursday, reducing new permanent resident numbers by almost 100,000 in 2025 after years of consecutive increases to the country’s immigration targets.

Barring any last-minute changes, information obtained by National Post shows the government is planning to decrease permanent resident intake from 485,000 this year to 395,000 in 2025. It is then expecting to further cut intake to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.


These so called cuts are Bullshit given the damage done and the numbers here already.

They’ll find some other program to juice migrant intake and pretend it accidentally got away when found out.

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China could not dream of a better ally than Justin Trudeau

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to suffer diplomatic and political fallout for accusing India, without solid evidence, of complicity in the murder of Sikh militant Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose extradition India repeatedly requested. Nijjar immigrated illegally to Canada using a false passport and then used his Canadian perch to establish a terrorist training camp, blow up a crowded cinema in India, and seek targeted killings of rivals and Indian government officials.

Even if India had ordered the hit on its own Osama bin Laden, and there is no conclusive evidence it did so, Nijjar seems a curious sword on which Trudeau should fall.

h/t Mauser

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Tom Mulcair: What’s Justin Trudeau’s track record on Quebec separatism?

With the old threat of Quebec separatism rearing its head with the Parti Quebecois on the rise in the polls and its leader promising a referendum on Quebec sovereignty if he’s elected, thoughtful commentators have been fretting of late about the possibility of a third referendum(opens in a new tab).

I’ve got good news for them: it’s not going to happen.

That’s not to say that separatism is dead. It ain’t. What is worth noting, though, is that it’s still stuck in the 33% range(opens in a new tab) where it’s been for decades.

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Trudeau says Liberals ‘strong and united’ despite caucus dissent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberal party is “strong and united,” despite efforts from within his caucus to oust him as leader.

While he wouldn’t stop to take questions from reporters, Trudeau made the comment as caucus members made their way out of an exceptionally long and high-stakes meeting Wednesday, during which many of them were set to confront the prime minister and ask him to step down.


I doubt things are as rosy as described.

Some Liberal MPs issue an ultimatum to Trudeau: make up your mind to stay or go by Oct. 28

Some Liberal MPs issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday: decide in the next few days if you want to stay on as leader or face some unspecified consequences.

For weeks, anti-Trudeau MPs have been meeting in secret to convince caucus members to band together and push Trudeau out of the top job to save the party from electoral ruin.

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‘Code Red’ petition from Liberals urges secret ballot on Justin Trudeau’s leadership

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all smiles as he walked into a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, where dissidents in his own ranks were prepared to challenge his leadership while his supporters harshly condemned the damaging show of disunity.

At the same time, a grassroots petition describing an “existential crisis” in the Liberal party was demanding an urgent secret ballot vote — both inside the caucus room and at the party’s national executive — on whether Trudeau really should stay on in the face of months of bad polls that place his party well behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

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