Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Justin Trudeau won in 2015 because he was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — the most successful political party in the western world.

But Justin Trudeau will lose the next election, so badly that it would embarrass any normal person, becoming the leader of the fourth party in the House of Commons. Trudeau will be obliterated because Canadians now understand that he is not the leader of the Liberal Party, but the leader of a “movement,” as he referred to the party when he became leader.

The Liberals are in freefall. With this week’s Bloc Québécois victory in Montreal’s LaSalle—Émard—Verdun byelection, on top of the five-alarm byelection defeat in Toronto—St. Paul’s earlier this summer, Canada’s “natural governing party” returns to Parliament down two longtime urban strongholds.

The evidence, both from polls and reports of private inner-party conversations, is overwhelming that the problem is the prime minister himself. Yet, he refuses to leave and Liberal MPs have few mechanisms—particularly since they rejected the Reform Act at the beginning of this parliamentary session—to get rid of him.

There’s a widespread view that it wouldn’t be beneficial for the Liberals to change leaders at this time; that a new leader would do just as badly, if not worse, in an election than Justin Trudeau; that Liberal Party members are therefore not acting like cowards in not forcing him out.

Look at the precedents, contend those who subscribe to this line of thinking. John Turner succeeded the highly unpopular Pierre Trudeau in 1984 shortly before an election had to be called, and a debacle ensued; the Liberals were reduced to 40 seats. Kim Campbell became Conservative leader in 1993 replacing the much-loathed Brian Mulroney at the end of his second mandate, and an even worse shellacking followed: the Tories were obliterated, winning only two ridings.

There was, almost in passing, an allusion to reflecting on things. But the word that set the tone for Justin Trudeau’s reaction to yet another gut-punch by-election loss was “continue.”

“We know we have an enormous amount of work to do to regain people’s confidence in Lasalle, and people across the country who are worried by the situation they find themselves in,” the Prime Minister told reporters. “So we have lots of work to do and we’re going to continue to do it.”

Recently, Mark Carney was named an economic advisor to the Liberal Party of Canada to help shape the party’s policies. Considering the Liberals currently form government, his efforts could have substantial effects upon Canadians.

Carney is most famous for successful stints as the Governor of both the Bank of Canada (2008 – 2013) and then the Governor of the Bank of England (2013 – 2020.) He has also held other high-level financial positions., including that of UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.

Canada edged closer to an early election Monday night — two ridings closer. The Liberals showed once again that they can’t win an urban seat.

Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, this party is on the verge of electoral obliteration. The Liberals prove they can lose not just anywhere, but everywhere.

Impossible as this might seem for Canada’s so called national governing party, it can happen. Old parties do die.

Pop the champagne! It’s now official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has doubled the federal debt. It took nearly two dozen prime ministers and a century and a half for the federal government to rack up $616 billion in debt, which is where the total stood before Trudeau’s first year in office. But less than a decade later, on Aug. 30 of this year, the debt has officially doubled to $1.232 trillion. That’s according to calculations done by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation based on annual debt increases outlined in the government’s latest budget.

OTTAWA—What went wrong?

The question dogged every Liberal cabinet minister heading into a meeting on Parliament Hill with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday morning. The clear and stinging loss of a Quebec riding in a Monday byelection that should have stayed Liberal red but instead went to the Bloc Québécois prompted a grilling by reporters about whether the Liberal leader should stay.

He’s out to punish everyone now.

Good for the CPC that he’ stays on not so much for the rank and file who have to suffer his ego’s malevolence for another year.