and there goes Justin Trudeau......

[a kennedy]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce as early as Monday that he will resign as Liberal Party Leader, The Globe and Mail reported on Sunday, citing three sources.

The sources told the Globe and Mail that they don't know definitely when Trudeau will announce his plans to leave but said they expect it will happen before a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday.

The Canadian prime minister's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.

It remains unclear whether Trudeau will leave immediately or stay on as prime minister until a new leader is selected, the report added.

Trudeau took over as Liberal leader in 2013 when the party was in deep trouble and had been reduced to third place in the House of Commons for the first time.

Trudeau's departure would leave the party without a permanent head at a time when polls show the Liberals will badly lose to the Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-pm-trudeau-announce-resignation-014243980.html

[Intractable]

1. Well, there goes my planned move to Canada!

Just kidding. They won't take me.

[usonian]

2. Just wait! When Canada defeats the US, you'll become a Canuck.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219867240

Come the US invasion:
2025 Fearless Prediction Number 2. America loses war with Canada when CyberTanks are bricked with a software update.

[Intractable]

4. I've seen the South Park movie. We attack them with guns and tanks. They fight back with chainsaws and power tools.

This is a settled matter.

[usonian]

6. I missed that. But invasion attempts HAVE failed.

For not being bilingual.

🍁Et Bonsoir! 🇨🇦

[a kennedy]

8. Ya mean, John Candy the gawd of comedy?? and a ton of other comedians that I can't remember

but absolutely love……there goes our brother and sisters of comedy. What the world needs now is comedy. We lose Canada……we lose the comedy bone in our bodies. Seriously, comedy……

[usonian]

13. Wikipedia says

Alan Alda
John Candy
Bill Nunn
Kevin J. O'Connor
Rhea Perlman
Kevin Pollak
G.D. Spradlin
Rip Torn

And leaves out Mountie Dan Aykroyd.
Musta been just a cameo.
Maybe there were ore cameos.

[Lovie777]

3. Trudeau has a plan .....

[Irish_Dem]

5. Maybe running to kiss Trump's ring right after the election was the kiss of death.

Everything Trump touches dies.

[a kennedy]

9. Shut up.....please don't. That absolutely scares the shit outta me......

There immediately goes the plan for Canada to becoming the #51 state. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Irish_Dem]

31. I was hoping the sane part of the US could become Canada's 11th province.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Trudeau has been doomed since long before the US election

His resignation will at least give his party a fighting chance in the next election, instead of coming in third, or even fourth place.

Hopefully, without Trudeau around, the spotlight will shine on Polievre’s character flaws and shortcomings.

[SunSeeker]

17. Is there a chance the liberals can hammer together a coalition to beat the conservatives?

Sadly it seems Canada has been infected by our hate propaganda and anti-immigrant fervor. What is ironic is that so many of the immigrants that conservative Canadians hate are also conservative.

[ThePartyThatListens]

27. But of course!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Pierre Axe the Tax Poilievre has nothing but slogans because realistic policy would endanger his personal ambitions. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Trudeau was Prime Minister in 2015 before tRump. He shook hands. He didn't die, nor kiss his ring

Trudeau knows how to massage tRump's ego without giviing in. He negotiated a NAFTA 2 with tRump that is good for Canada, and now tRump is whining about his own treaty.

Trudeau's been in power for nearly 10 years. tRump not so much. Part of that time has been in minority government, which takes real skill to navigate and get things done, as he has. In a situation akin to minority government, tRump failed against Nancy Pelosi 2019 through 2020, as he will with Jeffries beginning in 2027.

[Irish_Dem]

32. I like Trudeau. But he didn't need to break his neck getting down to the US asap after the election.

I don't think that was a strong negotiation move.
Trump respects strength and power.
He may love the ass kissing he is getting but he doesn't respect the toadies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. The invitation was issued before tRump made his tariff threats. Trudeau beat tRump in 2018

In 2018, Trudeau negotiated against tRump and the three countries signed NAFTA 2.0: the USMCA. It has been good for Canada and now tRump is whining that his own deal is no good.

Check out Trudeau's charity boxing match with Senator Brazeau, 30 pounds heavier and taller than Trudeau. Spoiler: Trudeau won convincingly.

Trudeau took his party from third place in Parliament into a majority government in two short years. He plans and acts with strength.



If you are looking for toads, look no farther than the dozens of American billionaires trekking down to Mierde-a-loco and donating millions to tRump's inauguration which his is directing into his own PAC to pay for his legal troubles and lawsuits.

[JI7]

24. Trudeau's problems have nothing to do with Trump

if anything Trump going after him could only help him but he has become too popular already .

[bdamomma]

7. Sad news

I wish and hope our neighbors will be able to stand strong for their beliefs and live free.

[dalton99a]

10. Inflation and immigration

Although Ottawa spent heavily to protect consumers and businesses, racking up record budget deficits, this provided little protection from public anger as prices soared.

A botched immigration policy led to hundreds of thousands of arrivals, straining an already overheated housing market.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. That is a false media narrative

Housing is overpriced because the government insures a significant portion of mortgages, meaning lenders don’t have any skin in the game, and will lend outrageous amounts to borrowers.

In addition, thousands of units are used for Air B&B rentals instead of long term occupancy.

The real estate industry is a much larger portion of the Canadian economy, and the leaders of the three major parties are all beholden to the industry, so blaming immigrants is a much safer strategy than say, dissolving the CHMC, forcing lenders to take all the risk and reducing the number of qualified buyers at current prices, which would drive prices down.

[niyad]

16. GMTA.

Glad to see that I am not the only one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. No, Trudeau has been low in the polls since 2023. . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Of course he is. But "anything is possible" is no evidence and completely spurious

Trudeau was in the same kind of trouble as he is now when it looked like he would be welcoming President Harris, though Freeland may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, the tipping point.

So, please, just drop the myth that tRump is all powerful and controls everything.

This is Canada. We have our own system and our own politics, thank you very much.

[Mike 03]

30. Trudeau's difficulties predate Trump's meddling with Canada

It goes back quite a ways. He began losing his cabinet during the summer of 2024. And in a sense, even that wasn't "the beginning." The death knell is that members of his own party are asking him to step down.

What is bad about the timing is that so many democracies are shifting or faltering at the same time: Austria, Germany, France, Canada, and probably some I'm not thinking of. Italy? The UK just finally got Labour into power--talk about a bad time for so many western democracies to pivot far right.

[niyad]

15. I wonder what TRAIITOR** threatened him with?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Nothing. Trudeau has been in office for nearly 10 years, a long time in modern Canadian politics

He's been low in the polls for more than a year before tRump even debated Biden.

[C0RI0LANUS]

25. Affordable housing and the health care system were strained during the past several years in Canada.

Canada has an older population and needs youngsters. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau gave asylum to thousands of refugees like the ones pictured below from Syria.


(Photo: Reuters)

In addition to these asylum seekers, normal immigrants and post-invasion Ukrainian refugees came to Canada, straining the affordable housing market. The preceding COVID supply shocks also hurt Canadians in the pocketbooks.

Canada was already losing physicians to the better paying US (see article below) and the influx of "foreigners" (students, temp workers, immigrants) strained the health system (on top of the creaking housing market). Ottawa then announced a reduction of annual immigrants.

Justin Trudeau had to work with a coalition with the NDP to hold on to power. The NDP is to the left of the Liberals. But that relationship is strained because of NDP accusations that Trudeau didn't keep his promises.


Jagmeet Singh, head of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017.

The Canadian population (I think) don't regard Trumpf highly and Trudeau's visit to Mar-a-Lago was to help their future economy, not fear of the orange shit-gibbon.

Sources:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/10/20252027-immigration-levels-plan.html

https://newcanadianlife.com/why-do-canadian-doctors-move-to-the-us/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-ndp-ending-agreement-1.7312910

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Thank you for explaining some of the issues, history, and factors to our American friends. Well written post. . . . nt

[C0RI0LANUS]

28. Happy New Year, Bernardo de La Paz, and you're welcome. How are you doing?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. And Happy New Year to you and all as well. I am well and looking forward to good possibilities for me ahead. . . nt

[C0RI0LANUS]

33. Glad to hear it. Did you see my OP on the first-ever CBSA pre-clearance post in NYS?

[EllieBC]

35. Nobody wants to hear it.

They prefer to believe that Canadians are delighted with our perfectly fine working system.

They don’t want to hear about healthcare wait times or the fact that as immigration shot up no other services were increased. They don’t want to hear about all of these things, they just want to believe that it’s a utopia and Trump somehow is ruining it.

[C0RI0LANUS]

36. Hi EllieBC (so BC must mean British Columbia). Who say's this cat is dumb?

Canada has its own issues from what I read, Trumpf notwithstanding. The Oligarch-in-Chief is helping to waste Ottawa's time and money with their new border plan. I recently posted that the CBSA (Canada's border agency) will be establishing a pre-clearance post in NYS inside the US for the first time ever. The US and Canada enjoyed the longest, peaceful border for over 100 years.

From the Government of Canada:

Canada is investing $1.3 billion to bolster security at the border and strengthen the immigration system, all while keeping Canadians safe. This includes $667.5M for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, $355.4M for the Canada Border Services Agency, $180M over 6 years for the Communications Security Establishment, $77.7M for Health Canada, and $20M over five years for Public Safety Canada.

This is probably money Canada (a G-7 country, NATO ally helping Ukraine, and US NORAD partner) could have used for their health care system, defense of the Arctic, or helping address the homelessness problem.

Between 30,000 and 35,000 people are homeless on any given night in Canada.

Many progressive Americans would prefer to live in a country with a low homicide rate, strict gun control, and universal healthcare coverage (despite the problems we addressed).

Happy New Year EllieBC and stay warm up there.


Sources:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

https://madeinca.ca/homelessness-statistics-canada/

[EllieBC]

37. It's sadly too warm.

I’m in the lower mainland of BC and it’s been a warm and wet winter. Just a handful of flurries so far unless you go up to the mountains.

And thanks for your links. I mean “no one wants to hear it” as in non Canadians don’t want to think Canadians aren’t happy.