I think it was inevitable with polls predicting a landslide win for the conservatives.
Atleast he wouldn’t have to deal with Trump. The trolling by Trump/Elon became too much.
The race is on to be the next Kim Campbell. Sigh.
Continuing to fight residential school survivors in court WHILE the bodies of children murdered at the schools were being uncovered en masse was, to me, even worse than his abandonment of electoral reform just minutes after taking power in 2015.
I don’t think they’ve actually uncovered very many bodies, if any. Actually dig into that a bit; “we may have found something” has in all cases I’m aware of not turned out to be anything. I may have missed some examples of them actually finding bodies, but don’t believe the “mass grave” hysteria that got whipped up.
Why the government is so stubborn in court for people who ACTUALLY LIVED THROUGH ABUSE I cannot explain. Just… do the right thing, guys.
As to the Mark Carney story, he’s not as ludicrous a pick as Michael Ignatieff, but I do not understand for the life of me why the Liberals would again decide that they cannot find anyone, in a huge political party in a country of 40 million people, to be their leader who has actually resided in Canada for a long, uninterrupted period of time.
Carney, at least, moved back to Canada for reasons aside from a desire to immediately become the Prime Minister, and there’s no way he can be as oblivious as Ignatieff was, but I just don’t get why they can’t nominate someone who’s actually a Liberal politician, maybe has some cabinet experience. Carney is a white guy with Executive Hair, maybe that’s the appeal.
I’ve always liked Trudeau and think he did the best he could as PM, despite some mistakes. He was also a firm friend of the United States, even when we didn’t really deserve it. I can completely understand why, given national polls, the griping of many members of his party and the extraordinarily unappealing prospect of dealing with Trump for another four years, he’d decide to call it a day.
Any chance he might return to the post someday, as his father did? He’s just 53. Are his polls as bad as his father’s were in 1979? Maybe Poilievre and the Conservatives will screw up so badly that, in five years or so, Trudeau will be looking a lot better.
Look on the bright side – they could find the next Kamala Harris!
No chance. PET lost the election in 1979 while winning the popular vote 40% vs 36% for the Tories. He fell on his sword when he resigned and was still the popular choice. JT is not in the same position.
I think, like most of us in the Western world, he didn’t expect Trump would come back.
The current predictions are for an election in May. Trudeau will likely remain head of government until then. Expect about 4 months of president Musk and his puppet constantly tweeting that the communist fascist government of Canada must be overthrown and replaced by the most right-wing Canadian party they can find, probably the People’s Party of Canada. And discussing annexation with Kevin O’Traitor. At this rate, we’ll be lucky if the election proceeds normally without truck convoys / a crowd of rednecks invading parliament / Rudy Giuliani finding some “smoking gun” discarded ballots.
If, five years from now, the Liberals haven’t found someone new who looks good enough to consider for PM, they’ll deserve to lose to the Conservatives again.
It really doesn’t matter who they choose this time around, that person is basically going to be the Sacrificial Prime Minister who takes the electoral loss for the team. They’ll be out as leader within a year or two, I’m betting. Take the hit for a short while, while other more likely long-term prospects maneuver around each other, figuring out who is the best option.
Here’s Time’s take on things:
Trudeau’s polls are about as bad as we’ve ever seen for a sitting PM.
And of course he’s resigning, which his father did not do in 1979.
Harper lasted about the same number of years—nine-ish. We just get tired of our PMs after a while. Nothing personal.
Sure hope he is satisfied with his legacy.
… What a goddamned clown. Get off the stage.
I mean, they WERE able to. They chose not to. He’s just lying.
No government, once they’re elected, is going to push for proportional representation. That includes Poilievre and the Conservative party. It’s political suicide unless you’re part of the minority and not in gov’t.
Agree
Then we need to go the binding referendum route. While we are at it, a referendum on what to do with 24 Sussex.
No such thing in Canadian law. Only Parliament has legislative power federally and cannot delegate it, or restrict powers of future Parliaments.
New poll gives Tories a 27 point lead; increased since Trudeau announced resignation.
Nah, we need a leader who wants to cement a legacy akin to Pierre Elliott Trudeau. PR is there, waiting; already been talked, hashed, rehashed, and settled on.
Simply put, Justin isn’t half the visionary leader of his father, and was happy to kill off this campaign promise once the NDP threat was soundly defeated via surprise Liberal majority (as many on this board predicted he would, if securing the majority win).
Good riddance liar. You choose the legacy you got, false tears now is pathetic.
Coyne had a harsh article on Trudeau. He did okay on Covid and well with first USMCA. But lots of hypocrisy, naïveté and some scandal.