Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

The political trajectory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2024 can best be summed up as his transformation from a Teflon PM to a Velcro one.

Most Canadians in March reported feeling angry or pessimistic towards the federal government than at any point in the last six years, according to a survey by Nanos Research(opens in a new tab).

Nanos has been measuring Canadians’ feelings of optimism, satisfaction, disinterest, anger, pessimism and uncertainty toward the federal government since November 2018.

The latest survey found that optimism had crept up slightly to 10 per cent since hitting an all-time low of eight per cent in September 2023.

There are numerous metrics to gauge a nation’s wealth, and one revealing measure is how much its citizens spend on food relative to their disposable income.

The Trudeau government has expressed a commitment to aid the impoverished and disadvantaged. However, new data from Statistics Canada indicates that, since the onset of the pandemic four years ago, their plight has worsened rather than improved.

It’s clear the Liberal budget, brought down on Tuesday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, is all about trying to get voters to love them again.

However, the highest-spending budget in Canadian history — one that dishes out some $ 37.1 billion in added goodies for several key voting groups — could easily put voters off the governing Liberals, rather than buying them love.

Chrystia Freeland is so averse to private enterprise, she’s now trying to put satirists out of business.

Fairness demands more investment in housing and making life cost less, the finance minister said in the opening statement of budget 2024 on Tuesday. But “it would be irresponsible and unfair to pass on more debt to the next generations,” so the rich must pay their “fair share.”

Ontario is going to see a big jump at the pumps later this week as gas prices in the province hit levels not seen in nearly two years, according to one industry analyst.

Dan McTeague, the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, told CP24 Wednesday that both Ontario and Quebec will see a 14 cent per litre increase overnight Thursday.

The opening lines of the Liberal government’s new budget accurately sum up the situation Canadians are facing:

“A fair chance to build a good middle class life–to do as well as your parents, or better–that’s the promise of Canada. For too many, especially for young Canadians, that promise is at risk.”

A lot of Canadians reading that line, particularly younger ones, would nod in agreement. It’s the line that follows, though, that will have them do a double take.

One big thing has changed between the 2024 budget and the one Justin Trudeau’s government delivered last year — and it all revolves around an air of inevitability.

No matter who one wants to win the next election, there is a sense that this current government is winding down to some kind of conclusion. It is impossible to view this eighth budget from Trudeau’s government through any other lens. Granted, this may not be the last budget before a 2025 election, but it begs the question: what, if anything, will last?