#Resign Trudeau

[originalleftist]

I never thought the Bloc Separatists would be the voice of reason and responsibility in Canadian government.

Well, non-confidence vote and likely Conservative majority averted, for now. Shame on the Liberals for keeping Trudeau (and Trudeau for not stepping down), the NDP for risking an election that would put fascists in power so they can maybe pick up a few more seats, and above all the Cons for embracing MAGA fascism. Fuck Poilievre's Alex Jones-loving convoying self.

[samtheflamingomain]

freeland freed

Canada's finance minister Chrystia Freeland just resigned today. I could go deep into the Lore but it really isn't important at the moment. Just know that she's been the minister, under Trudeau, for NINE YEARS.

He soft-fired her Friday, and she hard-quit Monday.

There was an emergency swearing-in of a new finance minister, someone else gave today's fall finance report, and then there was an emergency caucus (fun lil meeting with no actual goal or agenda that the public will never hear specifics of) which was also attended by Freeland, who retains her status as an MP (Canada's sentators).

Anyway, with the wonkery outta the way, let's bring in the clownery.

Trudeau has been called to resign by every party leader, every premier, and over 60 MPs. This includes the farther-left-than-the-Liberals Green Party and New Democrat Party leaders calling for resignation. And unlike most of Canada, they're not making a polite suggestion.

Trudeau didn't address the nation until 8:30 pm where he spoke without saying anything. He isn't resigning tonight. I don't think he's resigning in 2024.

Why? Somehow, remarkably, he's more selfish than Joe Biden, who did step down. He's Pierre's son. He thinks he's destined to be our PM because he's a nepo baby that refuses to hear even the most levelheaded of criticism.

In a desperate bid to raise his popularity, for the next 2 months, Canadians aren't paying any taxes on toys, beer or restaurant meals. Some of us might get maybe $250 as a rebate maybe sometime next year if we're good. Maybe.

We're not dumb, we see what he's doing and how it's a fucking toddler's idea of how to abate the insane price of groceries and housing.

The minute he resigns, an election is called. That election is the Conservative Party's to lose. The next several years will be a Con government, which, despite sounding better than a dude with a 2% approval rating, will just be more of the same if not worse.

Check in on your Canadians, because we are not well.

[destielmemenews]

"Trudeau's leadership has faced significant challenges in the wake of the COVID crisis, leading to a loss of confidence among Canadians from various backgrounds. Key issues such as housing affordability, the rising cost of living and high levels of immigration contributed to widespread disillusionment. This growing frustration led to Trudeau's own Liberal supporters to start calling for his resignation.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's abrupt resignation on Dec. 16 further complicated Trudeau's political landscape and threw his Liberal Party into disarray, reviving calls for him to step down."

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[spectrumtacular]

Hysterically funny to me that Trudeau had to suffer through his resignation twice in a row, major W for federal bilingualism

[st-just]

I'm sure we're not the only country where this happens but it is kind of amusingly atypical that in Canada a sense of national threat and increasing the salience of 'Canadian' as an identity is actually bad for the electoral fortunes of the Right.

[relaxedstyles]

[quasi-normalcy]

What gets me about this is that Chrystia Freeland had been utterly loyal to Justin Trudeau. She handled every task she was given, she became the obvious candidate to succeed him, and she never made a peep when an increasing number of voices in caucus were calling on Trudeau to resign. And, for her years of loyalty and service, she was given: (1) an absolute shit sandwich of a fiscal update to deliver on the government's behalf based around obvious cockamamie vote-buying schemes which she opposed, and (2) a promise that she would take the fall for the government and be replaced within a few weeks.

I really can't blame her for bailing on Trudeau in the most damaging way possible.

[saywhat-politics]

[bakatenshii]

i promise i havent given up already HAHA im flying back to london so will be back on here in GST in like 10hrs!!

[originalleftist]

The Liberals just lost another by-election, reportedly in a supposedly "safe" seat.

Fuck it, Trudeau needs to resign. He's clearly not electable, and his arrogant denial of reality is walking us headlong into a Poilievre (that is, Canadian MAGA) majority*.

He needs to go. Maybe we'll get half as lucky here as the Democrats did when Biden stepped down.

*I'm not kidding, Poilievre has literally marched with the MAGA-funded conveyors who blockaded our capital for weeks a couple years ago, he has dabbled in election conspiracy theorism, and he recently refused to reject an endorsement from Alex fucking Jones.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

It is a bit wild sitting in one of the few countries that actually reelected a sitting government (unfortunately) and watching the political instability all around

[sucka99]

[kingjongdaes]

the lead up and all the drama from the canadian election lmao

[aurenflare]

every time trump does something insane i sigh audibly because i know i will walk into my canadian and world politics class the next morning and have to talk about that bitch for 90 minutes. awful world we live in

[zee-man-chatter]

A pyrrhic victory for angry Canadians, although I'm hearing Carney is a real WEF carbon hawk too. Trudeau never answered questions properly in parliament, he always talked down to us. Who knows what he'll do next, I just hope he stays out of politics permanently!

[quasi-normalcy]

Thing is that Poilievre is popular so long as he's just the generic anti-Trudeau candidate. Unfortunately he's also a creep and this will become apparent when people start actually paying attention to him