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Justin Trudeau Has Left the Building

by Dr James Allan
25 March 2025 9:00 AM

The writer is in Australia.

The man who went from ski instructor and kindergarten teacher virtually straight to being the Prime Minister of Canada has finally left the building. He resigned. But that was all for show. His party forced him out because the polls were diabolical. Go and read the Fraser Institute’s analysis of Canada’s economic performance after 10 plus years of Trudeau at the helm. When Justin took over from the Conservative Stephen Harper government in 2015 the per capita wealth and wages of Canada’s richest provinces compared well to all but nine or 10 US States. Today, wages and salaries are lower in every Canadian province compared to all 50 States, below even the poorest US States of Mississippi and Louisiana. Growth? Bad. Productivity? Woeful. Multiple quarters of GDP per capita decline. And this was assessed before Trump won last year’s November election, lest those with a bad case of TDS be tempted to blame the Orange Man. (As a further aside, a painful one, Canada’s economy is really bad. But Australia’s is worse than Canada’s on all these measures. Just sayin’ because you won’t hear it on the ABC.)

Trudeau loved to virtue-signal. He was a fully paid-up climate change catastrophist and stopped pipelines from being built to let Alberta’s oil and gas get to the ocean – the result today is that Alberta sells it to the US or to no one. Trump didn’t do that. Trudeau did. So a Net Zero cheerleader. Spent next to nothing on defence (meaning even less than we in Australia do as a percentage of GDP). He ran a massive immigration Ponzi scheme. And he was a thug – yes, a thug – during the Covid lockdown hysteria. Ask the truckers. The result of all the schools closing, paying people to do nothing, closing small businesses, borrowing and spending money in unheard of amounts, weaponising the police and more was that you got big time asset inflation, massive monies transferred from poor to rich and from young to old, even worse educational results, productivity killing ‘working from home’ and, well, things will basically be screwed up for decades because of lockdowns. (By the way, our Coalition government was as bad as, or worse than, Trudeau on all these fronts. All but a couple Coalition MPs during Covid should be hanging their heads in shame for the rest of their lives. They won’t. But they should.)

At any rate, reality caught up to pretty boy Justin. Renewable energy is ghastly expensive save for huge implicit and explicit subsidies – you need baseload power Mr Bowen. Spending nothing on defence in a Hobbesian world is stupid. Inflation was bad. Housing costs soared. The young were being screwed over. By November of last year his Liberal Party was 23 points behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. And Trudeau led a minority government. The even further Left NDP party had the power to bring down Trudeau and force an election any time it wanted. Yet the NDP leader refused, even though his party had overtaken Trudeau’s and had every likelihood of forming the Official Opposition were there to be an election. (Poilievre’s much-repeated theory for why the NDP refused to act and bring down Trudeau was that if the government scraped along till this past February the NDP leader would trigger his gold-plated parliamentary pension – he’d be set for life. All one can say about that theory is that once no election could be held before the pension would trigger, the NDP leader announced he’d bring down the government.)

Too late. Trudeau resigned. He prorogued Parliament – which means he put it into a sort of suspended animation between the end of one session and start of a new one. This, in my view, was conventionally within Trudeau’s constitutional power – the remedy lying with the voters once the election is held. And a Canadian court recently upheld Trudeau’s power to do this. Just note, however, that when Boris tried to prorogue the UK Parliament to get Brexit through all 11 Remainer UK Supreme Court judges overturned three centuries of precedent and ruled – in a country with an unwritten constitution – that Boris could not do that. It was a disgraceful judgment. But recall my theory about bills of rights and today’s judicial elites: when you buy such an instrument (or asking them to interpret a written constitution) all you are buying is the preferences and worldviews of the unelected judiciary. Trudeau in his 11 years had appointed nearly all the Canadian judges. I predicted he’d win the proroguing case and he did. The difference in the two proroguing cases was whether the judges were with the politician or against. It’s that bad I’m afraid.

That takes us to today. Davos Man extraordinaire, former Canadian and British top central banker, Mark Carney has been parachuted in to be the new Liberal Party leader and therefore Prime Minister. Odds are that he’ll call an election for late April or early May. If he loses Carney is likely to break the 19th century record of 69 days for ‘shortest time as PM’. If he fails to win a seat he’ll be the only Canadian PM never to sit in Parliament.

So where do things stand? The polls have seen a Carney Liberal Party shoot way up from Trudeau’s 23 points behind to nearly level pegging. Remember, though, that twice in the past a long-serving, now unpopular Canadian PM (Trudeau Sr for the Libs and Brian Mulroney for the Tories) made way for new faces. Both times their replacements shot way up in the polls, indeed into the lead very briefly. It didn’t last. John Turner lost badly as Trudeau Sr’s replacement. Kim Campbell, who was put in after Mulroney, led the Tories to the worst election defeat in anglosphere history – from a big majority in a 270 plus seat legislature to two – yes, just two – seats in the whole house. Up till now, in other words, the voters have political parties sussed out when they try the old switcheroo at the last minute. It doesn’t work.

The wild card in all this is Donald Trump. Many Canadians are taking his jibes literally and nationalism has become a real thing in my native country. (Think for one minute, though, about whether a Republican President would really want to incorporate 38 million Canadian voters – so, another California and one that would be even more Left-wing than California itself – into the US. Bring Canada into the US and no Republican could win the Presidency for the foreseeable future. It’s patently obvious that Trump does not really want to make Canada the 51st state.) And the media focus on tariffs masks the hard truth that pursuit of Net Zero idiocies costs Canadians orders of magnitude more than any US tariffs will. Still, the Trump effect has thrown Poilievre quite a dilemma. His voting base would probably have half who love Trump and half who hate him. So it’s a very delicate highwire act he has to walk. But here’s Jimbo’s prediction. Poilievre will win a solid majority. Globalist Davos Man Mark Carney will be Canada’s shortest serving PM in history. That would be a fitting tribute to pretty boy Justin’s devastating decade in power.

James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University.

Tags: CanadaCOVID-19DemocracyJudicial activismJustin TrudeauLockdownPresident Trump

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
4 months ago

Nasty little tyrant.

Every day we should think about the legacy we will leave. But that is beyond these people’s ability.

Last edited 4 months ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
4 months ago

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FerdIII
FerdIII
4 months ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Indeed. Libtards.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
4 months ago

Meanwhile over here in the Mother-Country, after 14 years of Tory sheep play-acting as Labour wolves (which included appointing Trudeauscu’s soulmate Mark Smarmey as BoE Guv and Money-Faker in Chief), we now have porcine Napoleon Starmer running Westminster Animal Farm and grim-reaping 20% of assets from working farms up and down the country.

Nice money to sluice and squander if you can get it. Elsewhere, from organic Highgrove, where everything the luxury garden believes in is perfect, King Chuckles smirkingly oversees a Commonwealth and Mother-Country where everything is proceeding so progressively refreshingly perkingly.

The Queen and DofE look down aghast from heaven above. “Always was a stupid boy,” observes the Duke.

Same goes for Trudeauscu. But not too stupid to get out for good before the rope and lamp-post beckoned.

Last edited 4 months ago by Art Simtotic
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The Enforcer
The Enforcer
4 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Great post – loved the presentation style of your put-downs. Perhaps you should proffer an article of your own to the DS.

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DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
4 months ago

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The art of politics is to get out before you are rumbled. That way you can hope to come back later as a Senior Statesman.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
4 months ago

Adolf Trudeau – a man who was happy to have a police horse trample over a woman in a wheelchair. I think he would be rejected in Hell as even The Devil has standards.

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Monro
Monro
4 months ago

Who?

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Kone Wone
Kone Wone
4 months ago

Two of the most evil and damaging politicians of recent years: Justin Trudeau, and Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. The damage these two did to their respective countries will take a long time to rectify.

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T. Prince
T. Prince
4 months ago
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And both offspring of the WEF future leaders programme

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Less government
Less government
4 months ago

And not a word about the World Economic Forum’s influence here. Trudeau along with Ardern, Macron, Rutte, Starmer, and of course, Carney, are all puppets of the Globalist masters. The unelected elites and big corporations are calling the shots here. They are the enemy our governments as JD Vance explained a few weeks ago.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
4 months ago

Canada is so vast and different in different areas this has always created a problem. Western Canada from Manitoba west to BC has always been conservative . Only the Vancouver urban area is more left. These provinces have always been poorly represented in the parliament centered and dominated in Southern Ontario and Quebec. After 10 years of Trudeau separatism in these provinces is ripe. Canada has the 2nd or 3rd largest known oil and gas reserves in the world located in Alberta and Saskatchewan. If Trump were smart this is the area he should focus on making the 51st state. The rest is just a headache, full of left wing nut cases and welfare provinces.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
4 months ago

Trudeau must have some Castro DNA as they both turned into the same petty little dictatorial small minded tyrants.

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CGW
CGW
4 months ago

There is a good 15-minute video on Mark Carney here: https://climatediscussionnexus.com/videos/who-is-mark-carney/.

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