Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation as Canadian Prime Minister in a tearful farewell speech outside his official residence. The Mail has more.
Justin Trudeau resigned as the Canadian Prime Minister on Monday to cap off a spectacular fall from grace just days before Donald Trump enters office.
The move came after weeks of pressure from his colleagues in Canada’s Liberal Party amid a significant, and growing, rift over how to handle relations with Trump in his second term.
Trump announced on social media after his reelection a plan to introduce a 25% tariff on goods from Canada, which led Trudeau into a frenzy to try and clean-up his relationship with the U.S. President-elect before he is sworn into office later this month.
The day after unveiling the idea, Trudeau, 53, immediately flew down to Mar-a-Lago to do damage control.
During that meeting, reports emerged detailing how Trudeau pleaded with Trump not to impose the tariffs and claimed it would kill Canada’s economy.
To this, Trump suggested that the northern neighbors could become America’s 51st state, and in following weeks mocked the Canadian leader by calling him Governor Trudeau.
The reason Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada is to pressure Ottawa to do more to secure the border and stop leaking illegal immigrants into the U.S.
Trudeau’s resignation comes the same day that Congress will move to certify the 2024 U.S. presidential election results as a victory for Trump and cement his forward movement to retaking office.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Party in Canada set an emergency meeting for Wednesday to discuss how to handle the growing rift within the party, but Trudeau stepped aside before the gathering could take place.
During remarks at the Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa, Canada on Monday morning, Trudeau made the announcement that he will step aside.
“I intend to resign as Party Leader, as Prime Minister, after the Party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process,” Trudeau announced in remarks delivered in English and then in French.
Before opening up to questions from reporters, Trudeau noted he’s a “fighter” and suggested how difficult it was for him to make the decision to step aside.
“I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians, and the fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralysed for months,” Trudeau said, adding he couldn’t run a successful reelection while also fighting within the party.
Trudeau will remain in power until his party selects a new leader, which they will need to do before general elections in the fall, which polls indicate conservatives will win with Pierre Poilievre as their leader.
The father-of-three served as Prime Minister since November 2015 and resided at Rideau Cottage with his family. He and wife Sophie announced in August 2023 their separation.
He disclosed that he told his kids about his decision at dinner in Sunday night.
Trudeau’s tenure now ends at just over eight years in the PM’s office.
Worth reading in full.
It was inevitable, what with the resignation of his deputy last month, Canada’s soaring inflation and his plummeting approval ratings:
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party, led by once-in-a-generation political wunderkind Pierre Poilievre, is soaring in the polls:
Trudeau’s party may be hoping that if he goes now, with the Liberals still having until October to call a General Election, a new leader can prevent the Conservatives winning a majority, just as Jacinda Ardern’s resignation in January 2023, nine months before the New Zealand General Election, helped stop the National Party winning a majority.
By my reckoning, Trudeau is the last democratically elected leader who was in office during the pandemic and imposed a national lockdown to be defenestrated, either because their party has forced them to resign, or because they’ve been embroiled in scandal, or because they’ve lost an election. All of which strongly suggests that locking down wasn’t the political masterstroke they all thought.
This is bad news for Sir Keir Starmer. It suggests that people are fed up with radical progressive zealotry disguised as centrist technocratic managerialism (techface). How long before the Labour leader goes the same way?
Stop Press: The political obituaries are flooding in – and they’re not good! Here’s Tom Leonard in the Mail (‘Canada’s ‘insufferable tool’ Justin Trudeau resigns’). Will post more here as they come in.
‘Justin Trudeau was Canada’s worst ever Prime Minister‘ says Michael Taube in the Spectator. “Canada’s long national nightmare is finally coming to an end.”
The PM worked hard to persuade the U.S. and Mexico to include concepts like gender rights and Indigenous rights during Nafta renegotiations instead of focusing on the main issue, trade. He’s spent tax dollars like a drunken sailor: passing a crippling national carbon tax that’s left Canadians of all political stripes furious for years. Housing and heating prices have become unaffordable in many Canadian provinces. …
There was taking the knee during the Black Lives Matter protests in front of cameras and the media. There was the Freedom Convoy and disgraceful use of the Emergencies Act. There was allowing a Nazi to be applauded in Parliament. …
‘Farewell Justin Trudeau, poster boy of liberalism out of tune with rapidly changing world’ writes Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
‘Woke Elvis Resigns’ is Matt Taibbi’s take at Racket News.
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Hallelujah, there is a God up in heaven after all!
Yes there is a God.
His pappy – either Castro or Pierre – were both Communist tyrants (in different ways). Apples and trees.
Truck Fudeau. Totalitarian Rona fascist, a drama teacher, a guy who ran from the Freedom convoy pleading he was ill with the fake Rona, a corrupt grafter, open borders fanatic, queer tranny lover, anti-Catholic who presided over the destruction of 100 churches thanks to his fake news claims that ‘Residential schools’ murdered ‘Indians’.
In 8 years he deconstructed what was once a great nation.
You mean a corrupt grifter, obviously. There’s nothing graft about Trudeau.
National Holiday for Canada:
Trudeau Geau Day
One of the most vile neoliberal specimens. Worse than Macron, Milliband, Sarkozy. In the same rank as Blair and Ardern. Starmer is more of a mulfunctioning puppet. He stayed too late after the coach went home. I would imagine that in the future Trudeau will have more serious things to cry about. You can feel where things are going and so can he.
Surely MALfunctioning puppet, he is a walking disaster area?
Two dreadful Justin’s gone in one day yay
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How 2TK must be quivering with fear over a revenge attack from the Donald ….. bring it on.
Justin time? Well done to Donald Trump for the steep sanctions threat against Justin’s Canada and for describing Justin as the ‘Governor’ of Canada – to be America’s 51st State. Hopefully Greenland will be 52nd.
I remember he ordered mounted policemen to ride over some disbaled woman. If you are capable of things like that then you have openly betrayed your own humanity. Like Jesus said, depart from me I never knew you.
Anyone who might do such a thing must be an awful and cowardly bully.
Isn’t that how Justin behaved during his 9 years in office?
Leave him alone in a bar with a few dozen of those Truck Drivers he tried to ruin…..no time limit and no repercussions.
Can we have a camera in there so we can watch?
Cue for the establishment to rally and bestow on him one of those ridiculous awards (a knighthood perhaps) for his service to world government during covid. Or perhaps he’ll be given a position in some globalist organisation. These scoundrels will do something to protect one of their own. Watch for it. It’s coming.
Nay, bloody hell Stewart, “scoundrel,” I think that’s a bit limp. Not the way I would refer to that genocidal maniac.
Tears of a clown.
Tears of a clown.
Whenever Canada is mentioned, I think of this man here: Polish Pastor Chases Cops Out of Church on Easter Weekend: ‘Get Out! You Nazis!’
If he runs to the WEF then I do so hope that the whole lot of them hang together.
Macron is the last of the lockdown fanatics still in power. I’m not sure if lockdown in France was more severe or longer than elsewhere but the restrictions on the unvaccinated were some of the harshest in the World as the things Macron said about the unvaccinated were among the worse things any leader said.
Good, but sadly 5 years too late for the Canadian people (the real ones, not the recent imports).
Still …. I expect Schwab will find a cosy “globalist” role for Mr Blackface.
The Government must call an election by October 2025. This fake resignation leaves Trudeau in power until the party chooses a new leader. He has also prorogued Parliament until the end of March thus preventing the house from voting on a non confidence vote he would lose triggering an election. So this fake resignation will leave Trudeau in power for many months during which he will feed his corrupt friends and globalist elite and fake charities billions more of Canada’s tax dollars. A word of advice NEVER elect a pathological NARCISSIST with a famous last name to power. The destruction he has caused in Canada is just unbelievable.
Strange, the approval rating looks like Starmer too!
Good riddance to Trudeau. As for Pierre Poilievre, I’ll reserve judgement on if he is a wunderkind depending on how much interest he takes in reversing the M.A.I.D. laws which are legally targeting the most vulnerable Canadians for state facilitated killing.
Astonishing. Justice at last for the courageous Canadian Freedom Convoy, which inspired so many others in the nations of the West.
But since he’s not actually clearing off until next autumn, there’s still plenty of time for him to wreak havoc.