Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing calls from two Chrétien-era Liberal cabinet ministers to step down as party leader, with the former MPs pointing to this week’s midtown Toronto by-election defeat as further evidence of a strong desire for change among Canadian voters.

Wayne Easter said in an interview Wednesday that Mr. Trudeau and his team of senior advisers in the Prime Minister’s Office need to make some hard decisions in light of the party’s surprise loss to the Conservatives in the former Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s.

In the wake of their surprise loss to the Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s going to remain laser-focused on helping Canadians through tough economic times.

Cabinet ministers such as Chrystia Freeland and his long-time friend, Marc Miller, said Trudeau is best positioned to lead the Liberals into the next election and they support his decision to do so.

Should Justin Trudeau stay or should he go?

Kathleen Wynne has been there, done that — and didn’t go.

After a bitter byelection defeat for the federal Liberals in Toronto–St. Paul’s riding this week, Wynne has been asking herself the same question anew. As premier, she stayed to fight another campaign in 2018, paying a high price in the election defeat that followed.

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A growing number of Liberal MPs say the national caucus needs to meet as soon as possible to discuss the fallout of this week’s tough byelection loss in Toronto and that the gathering can’t wait until the retreat scheduled for the end of the summer.

One Liberal MP told CBC News that if the caucus waits until that early September meeting to regroup and reset, “we will be writing our obituary.”

The stunning loss in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection on Monday has fuelled conversations inside the Liberal caucus about the future prospects of the party, the tenability of Justin Trudeau’s leadership and the effectiveness of the political team that surrounds the prime minister.

Bonnie Crombie, Ontario’s Liberal leader, distanced herself from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of the federal party’s byelection loss on Monday.

“I probably speak to the prime minister less than once a year,” she told Global News in an exclusive video interview released Tuesday.

The ruling party lost a seat in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto—St. Paul’s, raising questions over whether the federal party is hampering its provincial cousins.

Rats.

Polling maps in recent months have shown swathes of blue across most of the country, except for big cities like Montreal and Toronto where ridings generally looked solid red.

This tapestry changed in the early hours of June 25, when a lone blue square emerged from the core of the traditional Liberal stronghold of Toronto.

The Toronto–St.Paul’s riding, held by the Liberals for over three decades, switched to Conservative by 590 votes.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals now stare oblivion in the face.

Or as a friend put it more colourfully, the byelection loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s “greased the skids.”

The skids to where, exactly?

Despite a fresh round of calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, a new poll shows that the Liberal Party is already too far gone to be saved by his departure.

In a survey published Monday, the Angus Reid Institute found that a clear plurality of respondents were already disillusioned with the Liberals regardless of who was the helm.

OTTAWA — A majority of younger Canadians believe that older generations are rigging things to benefit themselves, while making life harder for millennial and Gen Z voters, and most aren’t convinced the recent Liberal budget will help matters.

They also aren’t big fans of plans for more government spending and higher carbon taxes. Nor are they confident that the government’s recent massive subsidy announcements for EV and battery plants will benefit them.

A horrible era to be young.