Canada Catch-All | Trudeau Resigns as P.M.

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Majority of Justin Trudeau’s caucus calls on him to quit​

Liberals want the prime minister to reveal his plans as soon as he’s back from holidays.

“… Canadians will head to the polls in 2025, a federal election that could be triggered in late January if Trudeau’s foes topple the minority government when the House returns from break.


“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau no longer has the support of caucus and to maintain some dignity he should immediately tender his resignation,” Calgary lawmaker George Chahal wrote in a Dec. 27 letter to the caucus.

The missive follows a recent virtual meetingduring which 51 Liberal members of Parliament from Ontario discussed Trudeau’s leadership. After the gathering, the party’s largest caucus group relayed a message to the prime minister: Resign.

“We’ve reached a breaking point,” said one Liberal who attended the meeting, and was granted anonymity to speak freely. “There’s a critical mass now that has been reached and that was not in place before.”

… For a year Trudeau has faced calls to step downfrom the party he’s led since 2013. Demands intensified after the explosive exit of Chrystia Freeland earlier this month. Trudeau’s long-time ally quit as deputy prime minister and head of finance citing tension between their officesover how to handle Trump’s tariff threat along with a domestic holiday tax break. …”
 
nycfan said:
See prior link. He has been losing popularity broadly really since COVID and recently has lost support in his party. The backbreaker seems to have been slinking down to kneel before Zod at Mar a Lago.
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So ETTD.
 
Trudeau has been in office since 2015, so it's not a surprise that Canadians want to move on.

In a world where outrage is more emotionally powerful than appreciation, when partisanship is so negatively affective, when people care so much more about tiny insignificant problems than even fairly significant boons -- time in office is always going to correlate negatively with popularity.
 
nycfan said:
See prior link. He has been losing popularity broadly really since COVID and recently has lost support in his party. The backbreaker seems to have been slinking down to kneel before Zod at Mar a Lago.
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Everything Zod touches dies.
 
www.bbc.com

Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates

Trudeau says he will remain in the role until the governing Liberal Party chooses a new leader.
www.bbc.com

Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister​


"...
  1. Justin Trudeau says he will resign as Liberal party leader - and then as prime minister when a successor is found
  2. He says he is a fighter but that "internal battles" mean he can't be the leader of the Liberals in the next election
  3. Standing down is an opportunity to bring the temperature down, he says
  4. Parliament will be prorogued - that is when all proceedings, debates and votes are suspended - until March
  5. He had hoped his finance minister, long-time ally Chrystia Freeland, who quit in December, would have continued in the job "but she chose otherwise" ..."
 
Polymarket has Conservative Pierre Poilievre as having a 92% chance of succeeding Trudeau as Canada's PM.

Make North America Great Again!
 
Mexico - you're next. No need to call it North America anymore - distinguishing between US, Canada and Mexico. We'll just call it America and be done with it. South America, Central America and America - with Canada and Mexico being States #51 and #52
 
Centerpiece said:
Mexico - you're next. No need to call it North America anymore - distinguishing between US, Canada and Mexico. We'll just call it America and be done with it. South America, Central America and America - with Canada and Mexico being States #51 and #52
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I dunno if MAGA would go that far; I hear that some of those Mexicans are kind of swarthy and have strange, grapefruit-sized calves. They make good beer and tacos but they talk funny.

Which raises the question as to what culinary benefits we get from adding Canada as a state? I'll grant you the beer, but talking food here.
 
nycfan said:
I dunno if MAGA would go that far; I hear that some of those Mexicans are kind of swarthy and have strange, grapefruit-sized calves. They make good beer and tacos but they talk funny.

Which raises the question as to what culinary benefits we get from adding Canada as a state? I'll grant you the beer, but talking food here.
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Poutine
 
Elk steaks? I don't know, wouldn't know. My wife's a vegetarian. Though I'm not 100% myself - I do eat a diet of about 90%-95% vegetarian. A little chicken and fish now and again. What will Canada bring to the table? The dinner table?
 
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