Excellent column Pieter, thank you. Your description of “constitutional vandalism” is perfect!
Turdeau, along with his team of 3rd string ministers and advisors has put on the worst spectacle of governance in Canada’s history. Even worse than his father’s debacle of the late 1970’s. An absolute disgraceful lack of accountability and scandal that has left most Canadians worse off. Canada’s previous stellar reputation of global excellence also now in tatters.
The senselessness of the GG agreeing to Jr’s vacuous and selfish request to prorogue parliament has left Canada in the worst position. A non-functional government with no plan, a lame duck imbecillic fool that is technically still the PM heading straight into the trade battle ring against Trump’s America on January 20th. What's the worst that could happen?
Regardless of the next leader chosen, the entire Liberal party is tainted by the destruction they have wreaked on Canada. An absolute stain on our country’s history.
Thanks for clarifying, I dis misinterpret the move as him stepping back as PM.
Any way you look at it, he is doing Canada a disservice. By letting this linger on for longer, Canada will be rudderless with trump negotiations on the doorstep. This perception of weakness is exactly what trump is best at exploiting. Just like biden, trudeaus gifts out the door are the ugliest.
I agree that Trudeau should have stepped down much earlier, perhaps a year ago, and that he has put us in a bad position. Actually I would have preferred him to stay on as leader and lose, as happened with Harper, as I think that is a cleaner end. But proroguing parliament until late March is in Canadians interest. PP is a terrible leader and the CPC policies will be bad for Canada and Canadians. I want to have a real alternative. It is PP and his supporters who are putting party over country. I made the mistake of listening PP's interview with Jordan Peterson. For me it shows why he should not be leader of the CPC. The party has much better people, like Michael Chong.
Have yet to listen to that interview and will do. Agreed, Michael Chong is great, he is shadow foreign minister right now and he would excel in that role in a new conservative cabinet.
We should have an election with a new Liberal leader so that we can make a real comparison. This election is much too important to simply hand to anyone.
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
Canadians elected a Turdeau jr. government 3 times...
A $62B deficit and a list of whimsical achievements equals a failure of government. If this was your CEO he would have been fired long ago!
Our idiosyncratic democracy and ability to form coalitions facilitated Prince Jagmeet (Rolex, Maserati) in keeping the narcissistic miscreant and his party in power well past their due date. With another split vote there is no reason this cannot happen again in Canada. Argentina, Venezuela anyone?
Canadians will agree with you that this election is “is much too important to simply hand to anyone”... Let’s hope the voters put their helmets on straight and elect a new government that doesn’t look anything like a facsimile of the incompetent Liberals.
I see a lot of posts on Facebook where people are thanking and complimenting Trudeau on his achievements. Most of those listed were costly to the taxpayers, in other words many Trudeau supporters have lived in a land where they thought anything was possible even though we had no money for it. It is bizarre how this works and that Conservatives then get blamed for cleaning up the fiscal mess.
Sadly, speaks to the comprehension of an “average” Canadian voter. Suppose half are under the average bar….
As the saying goes “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of spending other people’s money”.
Governments have taxed Canadians deep into oblivion. The skinny taxpayers can no longer carry the fat-cat government money printers on their backs. Canada’s economy is being crushed by federal government incompetence and lack of vision.
Furthermore, their delusional immigration policies have served to grow GDP for a short gain by rapidly growing the population. More people sharing a shrinking pie = everyone becoming poorer as a result. Canadians are now less than equivalent economically to the poorest US states. Wasn’t always like that.
Wealth destruction at its finest…. Suggest not returning the Liberals to the seats of power.
Excellent column Pieter, thank you. Your description of “constitutional vandalism” is perfect!
Turdeau, along with his team of 3rd string ministers and advisors has put on the worst spectacle of governance in Canada’s history. Even worse than his father’s debacle of the late 1970’s. An absolute disgraceful lack of accountability and scandal that has left most Canadians worse off. Canada’s previous stellar reputation of global excellence also now in tatters.
The senselessness of the GG agreeing to Jr’s vacuous and selfish request to prorogue parliament has left Canada in the worst position. A non-functional government with no plan, a lame duck imbecillic fool that is technically still the PM heading straight into the trade battle ring against Trump’s America on January 20th. What's the worst that could happen?
Regardless of the next leader chosen, the entire Liberal party is tainted by the destruction they have wreaked on Canada. An absolute stain on our country’s history.
Thanks for clarifying, I dis misinterpret the move as him stepping back as PM.
Any way you look at it, he is doing Canada a disservice. By letting this linger on for longer, Canada will be rudderless with trump negotiations on the doorstep. This perception of weakness is exactly what trump is best at exploiting. Just like biden, trudeaus gifts out the door are the ugliest.
I agree that Trudeau should have stepped down much earlier, perhaps a year ago, and that he has put us in a bad position. Actually I would have preferred him to stay on as leader and lose, as happened with Harper, as I think that is a cleaner end. But proroguing parliament until late March is in Canadians interest. PP is a terrible leader and the CPC policies will be bad for Canada and Canadians. I want to have a real alternative. It is PP and his supporters who are putting party over country. I made the mistake of listening PP's interview with Jordan Peterson. For me it shows why he should not be leader of the CPC. The party has much better people, like Michael Chong.
Have yet to listen to that interview and will do. Agreed, Michael Chong is great, he is shadow foreign minister right now and he would excel in that role in a new conservative cabinet.
Steven, can you perhaps articulate why proroguing parliament until later March is in Canadians interest? Curious...
We should have an election with a new Liberal leader so that we can make a real comparison. This election is much too important to simply hand to anyone.
There is a famous quote:
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
Canadians elected a Turdeau jr. government 3 times...
A $62B deficit and a list of whimsical achievements equals a failure of government. If this was your CEO he would have been fired long ago!
Our idiosyncratic democracy and ability to form coalitions facilitated Prince Jagmeet (Rolex, Maserati) in keeping the narcissistic miscreant and his party in power well past their due date. With another split vote there is no reason this cannot happen again in Canada. Argentina, Venezuela anyone?
Canadians will agree with you that this election is “is much too important to simply hand to anyone”... Let’s hope the voters put their helmets on straight and elect a new government that doesn’t look anything like a facsimile of the incompetent Liberals.
https://www.thefp.com/p/trudeaus-not-the-only-one-to-blame?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I see a lot of posts on Facebook where people are thanking and complimenting Trudeau on his achievements. Most of those listed were costly to the taxpayers, in other words many Trudeau supporters have lived in a land where they thought anything was possible even though we had no money for it. It is bizarre how this works and that Conservatives then get blamed for cleaning up the fiscal mess.
Sadly, speaks to the comprehension of an “average” Canadian voter. Suppose half are under the average bar….
As the saying goes “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of spending other people’s money”.
Governments have taxed Canadians deep into oblivion. The skinny taxpayers can no longer carry the fat-cat government money printers on their backs. Canada’s economy is being crushed by federal government incompetence and lack of vision.
Furthermore, their delusional immigration policies have served to grow GDP for a short gain by rapidly growing the population. More people sharing a shrinking pie = everyone becoming poorer as a result. Canadians are now less than equivalent economically to the poorest US states. Wasn’t always like that.
Wealth destruction at its finest…. Suggest not returning the Liberals to the seats of power.