Typically, it’s a good idea to avoid reporting on rumors, particularly the internet kind. Want to know why Brett Cooper left the Daily Wire? It’s probably not a good idea to go digging through comments on X hating on the company and claiming to have insider information spilled by angry employees claiming to be “loyal” to Cooper.
Rumors, more often than not, tend to be wishful thinking on the part of naysayers.
So, while I think the naysayers of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are right, I hesitate to comment on the rumor that the PM is considering a resignation. Fortunately, I don’t have to. Instead, I can comment on the numerous and growing number of Canadian politicians and institutions who have called on the PM to resign within the last several days. (READ MORE: The Loser of the Year: The Southern Poverty Law Center)
Let’s back this up a bit. In case you’ve been ignoring Canadian politics for the last several years (and who hasn’t been), Trudeau has hardly been a good leader for our northern neighbor. Sure, he’s arguably good-looking, but the cost of living in the country has skyrocketed compared with median incomes, taxes are onerous, the bureaucracy isn’t working, and high levels of immigration following COVID have caused economic problems, including a strain on Canada’s housing market.
Back in 2022, Trudeau ordered bank accounts to freeze the funds fueling truckers protesting his insane COVID mandates — a news item we heard about in the U.S. because more than half of those funds were donated by Americans. Meanwhile, his government has been responsible for pushing the MAID program, which, according to recent government reports, has been proudly responsible for more than 44,000 deaths since 2016.
Over the years, Trudeau and his liberal government have become increasingly unpopular. An election in 2019 left him with a minority government, and now that the American people have opted for a president who doesn’t pull his punches, Trudeau is facing the threat of incredibly high tariffs that will likely further cripple the Canadian economy.
So, he flew to Mar-a-Lago to plead with Trump for mercy. Then he undid any good work by criticizing Americans for not electing Kamala Harris, and promptly got trolled as the “governor” of the “great state of Canada.”
Then, this week, his finance minister refused a promotion and resigned.
But Chrystia Freeland didn’t just resign, she publicly posted her resignation letter on X. In that letter, she scolded Trudeau for not taking Trump’s tariff threat seriously. Trudeau, she said, is not preparing for “a coming tariff war,” and is instead engaging in costly “political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Candians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.” (READ MORE: Donald J. Trump v. The Media)
And Freeland isn’t the only politician who thinks that Trudeau is ill-suited to the job of running Canada. He is reportedly facing pressure from his own party to step aside and let another party member head the government. The Toronto Police Association publicly called for his resignation on X, and, of course, his political opponents (including that amazing politician, Pierre Poilievre, who faced down a reporter while eating an apple) are calling for national elections to replace Trudeau.
That, of course, would be quite the Christmas present for Canadians.
But even if Trudeau survives the pressure in the coming days and weeks, it seems quite likely that there could be a massive shift in power in the country in the next year. Canada has a federal election scheduled on or before Oct. 20, 2025 and, as Max Dublin pointed out at The American Spectator recently, the Canadian electorate has turned away from the “Trudeau Liberal regime and towards the Canadian Conservatives” for much the same reason that the American electorate turned towards Donald Trump.
Trudeau’s ousting may be as inevitable as things get in the political world. The question of the week is simply whether that ousting will happen now or later.
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