Justin Trudeau is in trouble. Beset by economic headwinds, unpopular policy decisions and personal controversies, the Canadian Prime Minister’s Liberal Party now lags up to 10 points in the polls behind the Conservatives. He faces a tough battle to win a fourth term in the upcoming election, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt:
Canadians have finally fallen out of love with Trudeau. The shine has come off a career that at times seemed to defy political gravity. Instead of Trudeaumania, the nation is suffering from Trudeau fatigue.
The Liberal Prime Minister’s approval ratings have slumped below 30% among voters aged 18 to 34, according to national polling group the Angus Reid Institute. This is the group whose enthusiasm helped get Trudeau elected in 2015, re-elected in 2019 and again – just about – in 2021.
Voting intentions tell the same story, with a widening gap between the ruling Liberals and the Conservative opposition. Disillusionment has been fuelled by economic factors, including soaring interest rates and a housing crisis.
From a British perspective, Canada may not seem to be doing too badly. Inflation is running at less than half the U.K. level and there are no major public sector strikes, NHS waiting lists or small boats. But Canada has its own problems.
Mortgage costs on an average home in Canada now eat up 60% of typical incomes, according to the National Bank. The figure is 90% in Toronto and over 100% in Vancouver. For first-time buyers, prices are simply unaffordable. Their rage is focused on the man they trusted with their votes, not once but thrice. …
The Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, is popular but not populist, younger than the PM but without his baggage. He offers a modernising, moderately libertarian agenda, a change from the Liberals’ big state profligacy and fiscal incontinence. For the first time in eight years, Trudeau is up against a dangerous opponent.
Canadian voters have been slowly souring on their Prime Minister for a while. The cult of personality that has surrounded Trudeau, which was assiduously cultivated by him on social media, became a bad joke when historic photographs of the future PM in ‘blackface’ surfaced in 2019.
Suddenly his wokery resembled hypocrisy and the idolisation of ‘Social Justice Justin’ gave way to mockery.
Trudeau’s image as an all-Canadian family man was also dealt a blow this summer when news emerged that the PM and his glamorous wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, had separated. The former TV presenter’s occasional absence from his side at international summits had been noticed. …
Eight years ago, it all felt so different. Justin Trudeau swept into office aged just 43, the second youngest prime minister in his country’s history and the scion of its most celebrated family.
Justin Trudeau’s implicit promise was to recreate the golden era of liberalism from 1968 to 1984, when his father Pierre dominated Canadian politics. …
Yet dynasties often disappoint. Justin Trudeau has failed to deliver, either for the younger generation who saw him as a standard-bearer of liberal values, or for the middle-aged voters who hark back with nostalgia to the heady days of his father’s reforms.
A Research Co poll in July found that whereas Pierre Trudeau was the most popular choice for the best Canadian PM in modern times, Justin was by a considerable margin seen as the worst. …
Many of Trudeau’s policies reflect his centre-Left economic views but they often have a tinge of protectionism. For example, under a law introduced in 2022, non-Canadians are banned from buying residential property unless they themselves are permanent residents. There is scant evidence that this legislation will help to alleviate housing shortages, as the Trudeau Government claims, but it has certainly sent a signal to foreign investors: keep out of Canada.
The same applies to Trudeau’s environmental policies. He wants to phase out the oil and gas industries, thereby eviscerating the economy of Alberta, and impose a draconian carbon tax which will handicap economic growth across the board.
The country lacks an entrepreneurial culture: a recent Financial Times list of 100 top global companies included only one Canadian firm. Unlike its larger neighbour to the south, Canada is falling behind by most measures. This is despite the emphasis placed by Trudeau on mass immigration. Indeed, some critics have suggested that his only strategy for economic growth is to increase the population by importing more “peoplekind” – a term he coined and which has attracted much ridicule. …
Trudeau is a self-proclaimed “cultural Catholic” but appears to disdain his own religion while pandering to others. When some 30 churches were burned down by Left-wing activists in response to claims of the discovery of mass graves of indigenous schoolchildren, Trudeau was accused of doing nothing to protect Catholic communities.
Instead, he buys into the darkest possible view of Canada’s colonial history: not merely a racist past, but a genocidal one. He claims that “Canada has no core identity” and thus reduces to absurdity his father’s carefully judged cultural pluralism.
Always eager to be woker than thou, in his Twitter feed the prime minister adds ‘2S’ in front of the usual litany of LGBTQ… This acronym means ‘two spirits’ and refers to the tiny minority of the indigenous First Peoples who do not identify as male or female, but with the spirits of both.
Just in case anyone was in any doubt, Trudeau told a Liberal Party conference this year that “transgender women are women”. He has backed the participation of trans athletes in women’s sports and their access to women-only spaces.
While keen to talk up his progressive credentials on ‘soft’ issues around culture and identity, Trudeau has proved much less able when it comes to dealing with real-world crises.
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Its about time he fell out of favour – being a WEF posterboy is proving a negative and the ‘liberal’ label they so like to spout is nothing of the sort – Fascist is a better fit!
He has committed crimes against humanity and needs to be brought to justice and face his punishment. Nothing else will do.
Trudeau, like Biden, doesn’t care about ratings.
Leftists don’t need to use the ballot box when they control the MSM, judicial system, police, voting machines, post office and Big Tech.
They simply rig the election.
Or did you wonder why Biden campaigned from his basement in 2020, why he’s not campaigning now, why Bolsenaro lost Brazil, Imran Khan was jailed, or even how to a lesser but still effective result, Truss was ejected.
If that doesn’t work, see how Pedro Briones was murdered last week in Ecuador.
Along with his enablers, he won’t be averse to a bit of electoral fraud – the MSM will be completely on board with it.
Exactly what I was thinking. I’m sure he’d receive plenty of useful advice south of the border on fiddling the votes
Look as though klaus schwab may be looking for a new Canadian soy boy to do his bidding. Given how our “conservatives” were so easily bought off by the globalists, I don’t hold out much hope for Canada.
He already owns Canadia’s version of the “civil service”.
It couldn’t happen to a nastier person.
The article was incorrect to mention N*zi flags at the truckers protest. There were none. The anti-vax slur also came out when anti-mandate is more accurate. Nor did the writer observe how OTT the use of emergency powers was to disperse a peaceful gathering. Debanking is apparently okay if it’s your political opponents.
Justin Castreau (look it up) has shown his true colors during the plandemic, the mask fell off, and the people cannot unsee that. Just like Saint Jacinda of New Zealand, Gavin Newscum, Gretchen Whitmer, and the rest of the WEF Young Leaders and their sycophantic lackeys.
Get Pierre Poilievre in power and get rid of thisTwatty little jumped up scrote!
I can’t get too excited. It’s a relay race, Trudeau has put in a creditable 400m for the WEF and will pass the uniparty baton on. Same with Rishi Sunk and Quarmer.
New masks please.
A sh1thouse of the highest order !
On the surface good news. But we have to wait and see as Pierre Poilierve has first to get elected then make good – and we have all experienced the Cons in various countries sounding good in opposition but not delivering in office. But worse than that, I actually can’t understand why people ever vote for these hucksters like Trudeau in the first place. It was just the same with Tony Blair – I spotted he was a wrong-un right from the start and was extremely worried about what he would do. But he won 3 terms and was never defeated at a general election. What is it about the voting public that they get taken in so easily?
Schwab will “look after” his Canadian Puppet.
I’m at a loss to comprehend how such slugs slither into positions of power in the first place, let alone how they remain there ostensibly forever
One of the many things Trudeau is doing is changing Canada into a Post-Nation State. Do do this he is bringing in some 400,000 migrants a year and in a couple of years time he plans to increase the number to 500,000. Why don’t we offer him our 100,000, migrants, fresh off the boat?
The Tudeau Liberals gave the media almost $600 miilion, which helped keep them compliant.
Plus the CBC (similar to BBC) gets billions.
The Chinese govt helped get some Liberals elected.
The first thing to say about Trudeau is that he is a Globalist; one of Klaus Schwab’s WEF protégés along with Macron and Ardern. The Canadian cabinet is infiltrated by more than a few.
His behaviour during the pandemic was appallingly tyrannical, especially the debacle with the Canadian truckers fighting against the disgusting, unethical vaccine mandates ( also mirrored by Ardern and Macron). The seizure of bank accounts from anyone supporting the truckers was particularly nasty, and has given us all a wake up call regarding the dystopian plans our governments have for CBDC.
Watching Canadians voting for Trudeau, that exudes evil from every pore, time after time is enough to make you want to weep.
Let us pray that they have finally woken up.