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Trudeau clinging like a ‘low-key autocrat’: Jeremy Nuttall
By Jeremy Nuttall
Is Canada looking like a developing nation with a corruption problem and a soft authoritarian regime?
This isn’t normal. Not even close. Even the most eccentric of Prime Ministers in any other commonwealth country would likely be licking their wounds in Ibiza by now, watching the chaos unfold from a safe distance.
Not this Prime Minister. True to form as the head of a micromanaging Prime Minister’s Office, he couldn’t bring himself to step aside. In fact, he still hasn’t.
Trudeau’s stubbornness edges dangerously close to the behavior of a low-key autocrat. He was nowhere to be seen for days as he shrugged off demands to “get lost in the snow.”
Imagine a country with a leader so deeply unpopular within his own party that members, mostly speaking anonymously out of fear, pressured him for months to step down—only for him to deflect with vague promises of “reflection” whenever the pressure mounted.
Imagine that happening against the background of the leader refusing to release documents as ordered by Parliament, at the same time the political landscape is embroiled in a foreign interference scandal. Meanwhile, food bank usage has surged, and concerns over soaring housing costs continue to grow.
Then, after a top minister leaves and drives a stake through his government, that leader circles his most loyal comrades in a bid to fend off the resignation even more before finally admitting defeat.
But even then, after the admission, said leader is still in charge and only promising to resign fully once his successor is chosen, then stopping the work of government at one of the most crucial times in recent history to give himself and his party time to get their affairs in order.
If you had that explained to you without knowing it was Canada, would you think it was a western parliamentary democracy being described, or a developing nation with a corruption problem and a soft authoritarian regime?
Democracies aren’t meant to prioritize the personal interests of government members over the country’s welfare. Yet that’s exactly what Trudeau did by requesting the prorogation of Parliament, giving his Liberals time to strategize for their own political survival.
Meanwhile, for the first few months of a new U.S. administration threatening major tariffs, Canada will be limited in its ability to address whatever happens in the House. With so much at stake, this move seems almost vindictive to a Canadian public who are now rejecting Liberal leadership.
Governor General Mary Simon’s decision to allow this—and the time she took to consider it—deserves scrutiny. The public is owed an explanation.
The Liberal Party’s troubles are not the Canadian public’s troubles, but in proroguing Parliament to deal with them, the Liberals have made them such.
Trudeau’s plan for the country is incoherent, his ministers suddenly have a lot of family obligations, and even columnists who curiously supported him for years too long are now calling for his exit.
Additionally, with him waiting until the Liberals are at their most unpopular ever, the Conservatives—set to win in a landslide no matter what—can control the narrative of the election and claim to have won on any mandate they see fit. The public could be left out of the conversation.
When tallied up, it’s all so awful.
In reality, however abnormal this is, it’s the natural course of where Canadians have allowed their country to end up.
Years of not really getting that upset about anything or realizing that the government and what it does matters are starting to show the real harms a country can be haunted by when it shrugs off the chipping away of its democratic norms by shallow and venal political operatives.
As pressure mounted on Trudeau to resign, his own MPs sheepishly asked for him to step down, an illustration that the PMO holds far too much power over caucus. One was left wondering if a breaking point would happen and MPs would make a grand gesture on behalf of Canadians.
Such a climax never arrived. My incredibly small kingdom for a handful of Liberal MPs with cojones.
The really sad part is, so far, it seems Liberal MPs missed a chance to turn the tide and more forcefully oust Trudeau from the leadership role by any means necessary, even if it meant voting against their own party.
They could have sent a message that democracy is a cumulative effort, not the whims of one person, then followed it up with reasonable changes to party policy to allow for the removal of a leader should such circumstances occur again.
What this has done is set a new low bar. The next power-crazed PMO will have this one as a blueprint to disregard the public and its welfare before pushing the limit even further.
The only bar lower at this point would be if Trudeau goes back on his promise to resign. Yes, it’s a long shot, but considering this guy’s track record of keeping promises—right up there with an absentee father in a daytime drama—I’ll really believe he’s gone when he’s gone.
This is a moment Canadians really need to examine and question if the way their government has been operating is working for them. If it isn’t, a movement for change must spring up.
Dignity, tradition, integrity, the common good—all of these principles risk becoming meaningless unless Canadians begin to take them seriously.
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From LifeSiteNews
Newly elected Liberal leader Mark Carney selected former Trudeau cabinet minister Mark Mendicino as chief of staff despite his deceitful record as Public Safety minister.
Newly elected Liberal leader Mark Carney selected MP Marco Mendicino as chief of staff despite his record of lying to Canadians.
Many Canadians are sounding the alarm over Carney’s upcoming appointment of Justin Trudeau’s former cabinet minister as chief of staff, reminding Canadians of Mendicino’s tyrannical record while serving as public safety minister.
“Mark Carney’s Chief of Staff is none other than Trudeau’s ex-Public Safety/Immigration Minister, Marco Mendicino,” Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre posted on X.
“He’s the guy forced to resign after he: Moved mass murderer & serial rapist Paul Bernardo out of a maximum security prison. Allowed gun crimes to surge 116%. Did nothing to stop Beijing’s foreign interference in Canada’s democracy. Helped Trudeau break our immigration system,” he continued.
“Nothing has changed,” Poilievre warned. “Do these guys really deserve a fourth term?”
According to Liberal sources, Carney chose Mendicino earlier this week and both will be sworn into office on Friday.
However, while Carney claims he is taking the Liberal Party in a different direction than Trudeau, his selection of Mendicino appears to show otherwise.
Thanks to his time serving under Trudeau, Mendicino is already well-known to Canadians for infringing on their freedoms while lying about it.
In 2022, Mendicino falsely stated that some of the Freedom Convoy protesters demanding an end to COVID mandates in Ottawa made rape threats. He used this allegation to justify the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to disperse the peaceful protest and freeze bank accounts.
Mendicino was also caught lying when he claimed that law enforcement agencies asked for the Emergencies Act to be used on the Freedom Convoy.
Furthermore, Mendicino played key role in controversial gun control legislation framed to the public as a ban on handguns, but he later secretly amended to include prohibitions on a number of hunting rifles and shotguns.
Mendicino is also known to be weak on standing against foreign interference, especially from China. In 2023, at a time of increased international tensions considering the Chinese surveillance of North America via a balloon, he argued that any laws dealing with targeting foreign spies must be “inclusive” and done in a “culturally sensitive” manner.
In fact, Mendicino proved so unpopular with Canadians that Trudeau dropped the minister from his cabinet in 2023 along with other COVID-era ministers.
From LifeSiteNews
Both Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Industry Minister Francois Phillipe-Champagne have hinted that a federal election is coming sooner than later now that the Liberals have selected their new leader, Mark Carney.
Two Liberal Party ministers have hinted that their new leader, Mark Carney, will call a federal election shortly after being sworn in as prime minister this Friday.
Earlier this week, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters directly that Canadians will soon head to the polls. He made the comments considering both Carney being the new leader, and the fact that all opposition parties have said they would vote non-confidence against the Liberal minority government once parliament resumes on March 24.
“The opposition parties have been very clear for weeks and months now,” said Duclos, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “They decided they would bring this government down regardless of what we could do.”
The Liberal Party on Sunday night elected self-proclaimed globalist and World Economic Forum-linked former central banker Carney as the new leader. Carney will be sworn in as PM this Friday.
In January, after announcing he would resign, Trudeau prorogued Parliament until March 24. A general election will take place sometime in late April or early May, should Carney officially ask the Governor General to dissolve parliament before March 24, which is expected.
Because Parliament is prorogued until March, Duclos said that this is “the last day we can be in government.”
“We’ll see whether we should call an election before.”
When a reporter asked him how “quickly” an election would come, Duclos replied, “We know the deadline is March 24.”
In addition to Duclos, Industry Minister Francois Phillipe-Champagne on Sunday, after Carney was elected, told reporters, “I think we’ve said we’re going to go to the polls to get a strong mandate fairly quickly so that we can have not only the team –the Liberal team–but the whole Canadian team with us.”
“I think Canadians are ready for that, they want a strong team,” he added.
Election needed now, says opposition leader Pierre Poilievre
Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) and official opposition Pierre Poilievre told reporters on Monday that not only should an election be called now, but that Carney is “trying to distract from his many scandals and conflicts of interest as well as his disastrous record as Justin Trudeau’s economic advisor by talking about Trump.”
“He’s the guy who sold out to Trump,” said Poilievre, adding that six days after U.S. President Donald Trump “threatened Canada” with tariffs “to steal our jobs,” Carney “announced to Brookfield shareholders that he would move his headquarters from Canada to New York.”
“And when you asked him about it, he lied to your face,” he added.
Poilievre said the CPC has it “in writing and we proved it.”
“He sold out Canada. He put his profit ahead of our people and he did exactly what Donald Trump wanted. Never before have we had a prime minister so conflicted and compromised and yet so little scrutinized,” he added.
On Sunday, outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau in his last speech before Liberal Party supporters boasted about his government’s anti-life, pro-abortion agenda, as well as the party’s legalization of “same-sex marriage,” which happened 20 years ago.
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