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.
On a strip of grass dividing a busy east-end Montreal thoroughfare from a block of residences in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district stand about two dozen tents, a reflection of a housing market that can’t provide enough affordable homes.
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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a podcast that he thinks about the angry messages some Canadians send his way and what impacts they — and his job overall — will have on his children.
Trudeau appeared on an episode of Inside the Village that was released Friday. On top of discussing his children, the prime minister also spoke about what comes next for him and his embattled Liberal Party and the recently announced cuts to immigration targets.
Sorry Justin but you don’t get to play victim you self-centered prick.
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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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting for his political life but that hasn’t dampened his government’s zeal to push forward yet another scheme to slay climate change. In what appears to be an unprecedented move of economic self-sabotage by a national government, Trudeau aims to impose a ceiling on oil and gas emissions in Canada.
The prime minister arrived home from liberating Southeast Asia from itself last week to be confronted with a raft of problems, from disloyal caucus members to India’s wrath over Khalistan. His opponents relished the consequences as he testified under oath before the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday.
But Justin Trudeau has entered his Sir Lancelot phase, where he rides about the countryside with a pure heart, his lance pointed at enemies of the PMO Round Table, hoping to make suburban damsels swoon again.
Pity the federal Liberal caucus in Ottawa these days.
The must feel like the crew of the doomed Titanic, trapped on board and speeding toward the iceberg under the command of Captain Edward Smith – who would eventually drown along with 1,500 others in that infamous maritime disaster.
A Greater Vancouver Food Bank policy prevents international students experiencing food insecurity during their first year in Canada from receiving free food while they adjust to an unfamiliar country and community.
Emma Nelson, communications manager at the GVFB, said in an email the policy exists because the federal government requires international students to have “substantial savings” before coming to Canada.
Federal rules require international students to have $20,635 saved up, in addition to tuition and travel costs, in order to come to study in Canada.
Trudeau’s immigration scam makes the most vulnerable Canadian citizens compete with his foreigners for food.
The revolt by some Liberal MPs against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership may not have led to his ouster, but one political analyst says tensions within the party will last for some time — and may further hurt the Liberals’ electoral prospects.
In the past six years, the federal government alone has spent or committed to spend over $50 billion on electric vehicle (EV) production and sales. Provincial governments (mostly Ontario and Quebec) have committed another $20 billion-plus.
That’s not just for ultra-expensive EV battery plants, but also subsidies to EV buyers, plus money for EV infrastructure, such as charging stations and home chargers.
What happens in a country without cultural conservatism? Look no further than Canada, where the national identity is disintegrating.
In 2015, soon after taking office, the new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gushed to a fawning New York Times that, “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 – but there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
This was Trudeau’s plan – destroying Canada was his WEF Wet Dream.
Anyone advocating for mass immigration, multiculturalism, or diversity should be in shackles.
h/t Patti Jo
