Juno News - June 20, 2024


Large majority of Canadians want Justin Trudeau to RESIGN!


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9 minutes

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1,624

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105

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A new poll shows that 68% of Canadians want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, and 75% want a new government in place. Is it time for the Prime Minister to go? Or is there still time to save the Liberal Party?

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00:00:00.000 Despite summer heat, Liberal troubles remain frozen.
00:00:03.840 Frozen is six feet deep, middle of February, frozen on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
00:00:09.440 Sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night really thinking about how this is a tough time.
00:00:20.340 68% of Canadians want to see Justin Trudeau resign, including one third of Liberal Party supporters.
00:00:29.380 He has a less than 1% chance of winning the next election.
00:00:33.620 He is about to potentially lose a downtown Toronto Liberal stronghold seat.
00:00:38.380 And to make matters even worse, Trudeau's once loyal legacy media propagandists are now turning their backs on him.
00:00:46.040 They're turning their backs on the man who writes their checks and fanning the speculation of his imminent departure.
00:00:51.740 Day after day, both him and his cabinet ministers are sounding more and more defeated.
00:00:57.460 So what exactly is Trudeau waiting for?
00:01:00.820 Why hold on when there's really no chance of coming back?
00:01:04.900 Why wouldn't he want to take this time to ride off into the sunset and leave some Liberal cabinet minister to become the next Kim Campbell?
00:01:12.260 Or maybe we've got it all wrong.
00:01:14.960 Maybe he's just that narcissistic and in such a state of denial that he really thinks he can come back and win the next election.
00:01:23.780 As always, before we get into the show, be sure to drop a like on this video.
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00:01:30.000 And the common question for the episode is this.
00:01:33.260 Do you think Justin Trudeau will resign this summer?
00:01:36.880 Let me know your answer in the comments below and let's get into it.
00:01:39.740 Well, let's just start with the headline item.
00:01:42.680 That being that a new Ipsos poll has found that 68% of Canadians want Justin Trudeau to resign.
00:01:49.840 That is a disaster for Justin Trudeau.
00:01:53.740 They're not just saying that they want to vote him out.
00:01:56.440 They want him gone.
00:01:57.660 They want a new prime minister in charge before they get a chance to vote in a new government.
00:02:02.840 And this poll is coming from Global News, one of Justin Trudeau's most loyal propaganda outlets during his time as prime minister.
00:02:11.580 This is how they have presented this crushing data.
00:02:14.860 As the House of Commons prepares to break for the summer, a majority of Canadians say Justin Trudeau should no longer be prime minister.
00:02:21.700 Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News shows 68% of Canadians want Trudeau to step down.
00:02:28.020 It also shows that three quarters, 75% exactly, of Canadians who were polled want a new government.
00:02:34.760 But we already knew that because we know that Justin Trudeau has a less than 1% chance of winning the next election.
00:02:40.620 Take a look at how Ipsos polling CEO describes this new data.
00:02:45.600 Despite summer heat, liberal troubles remain frozen.
00:02:49.740 How frozen are they right now?
00:02:51.580 Frozen is six feet deep, middle of February, frozen on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
00:02:58.220 These numbers are grim.
00:03:00.020 They haven't changed basically in a year.
00:03:02.660 All they seem to do, all the fundamentals underneath the vote numbers just seem to be getting worse for the prime minister and the Liberal Party.
00:03:08.300 When you look at where the Liberals are today, at 24, Justin Trudeau beat Stephen Harper and won a comfortable majority back in 2015, beating him by only 10.
00:03:20.360 Pierre Paulyev is eight points better than that right now.
00:03:23.200 So that's how bad it is at the moment for the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:03:26.280 Justin Trudeau himself went on a softball podcast with some sort of psychologist last week.
00:03:32.660 And he was asked directly how many times he's thought about quitting.
00:03:36.440 As he says in the interview, there was a time last year when his marriage was falling apart when he contemplated stepping down.
00:03:42.880 But now the fight is too important, as he says.
00:03:45.520 It's too important for him to step aside and let someone else run.
00:03:49.360 But take a listen to what was put into the teaser of the episode that didn't somehow make it into the actual podcast.
00:03:56.760 When he's talking about contemplating leaving the job undefeated.
00:04:00.440 And take a listen to what pollster Greg Lyle said on June 10th while sitting down with Steve Pakin.
00:04:07.380 Okay, you've twice in that answer said the government as it almost certainly will fall.
00:04:11.820 And Paulyev, once he gets into government, you're basically treating the next election as it's a fait accompli.
00:04:17.180 Right.
00:04:17.440 So is that to say they're, I mean, again, based on your experience and your research in the field, is there no path back at the moment for the current Prime Minister?
00:04:25.280 No.
00:04:26.700 Period, full stop.
00:04:27.500 It's over for Trudeau.
00:04:28.460 And now we're at the stage in Justin Trudeau's premiership, where any time he gives an interview to somebody, the question about him resigning is asked every single time.
00:04:39.760 Even with David Cochran, a man who was so loyal to Justin Trudeau during the 2019 federal election, that Trudeau made sure to go out of his way to give David Cochran a poutine.
00:04:51.940 To thank him for his biased and near sycophantic coverage of Justin Trudeau.
00:04:58.460 Well, take a listen to what David Cochran asked Trudeau just a few days ago on the CBC.
00:05:08.500 The exact same question.
00:05:09.840 Why haven't you just resigned already?
00:05:11.780 The conversation of why you should quit and when you should leave, and you say you're staying.
00:05:15.580 So what is it you want to do in a fourth term that you couldn't do in the first three?
00:05:20.420 Oh, no, it's continuing to meet the moment for Canadians.
00:05:24.720 It's continuing to know that what we've done over the past years, whether it was raising taxes on the wealthiest and lowering them for the middle class, whether it was delivering on a Canada child benefit that has lifted hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and made a huge difference across the country.
00:05:40.420 Did you hear any ideas about what he plans to do in a fourth term?
00:05:45.060 I didn't.
00:05:46.160 All I heard was what he claims to have accomplished already.
00:05:50.160 And look at the situation we're now in.
00:05:52.180 Canadians can't afford a house. 0.87
00:05:53.500 We have an open borders immigration policy that is destroying this country. 0.97
00:05:58.180 We have an out-of-control cost-of-living crisis.
00:06:01.460 Crime is off the rails in Canada.
00:06:03.620 Canada, homelessness, and food insecurity is up.
00:06:07.240 And everyone seems to be extremely depressed.
00:06:10.340 The press are not just out against Justin Trudeau.
00:06:13.360 They're also out for blood against all of his deputies, all of his cabinet.
00:06:17.460 They're now asking them these questions.
00:06:19.860 Like this question posed to Chrystia Freeland just a few days ago, asking her,
00:06:24.340 what makes her think Canadians are even listening to her government now that it shows everyone wants to see them gone?
00:06:30.220 What makes you think Canadians are listening to you and anything your government is saying right now?
00:06:36.520 Because we are acting on the issues that matter the most to Canadians.
00:06:44.340 Like this is a very challenging time for Canadians.
00:06:47.700 We have all collectively been through an incredibly challenging economic time for Canada and the world.
00:06:55.420 And it feels like the success of polling is showing Canadians are looking for a change.
00:06:59.020 We have been through an incredibly challenging time for Canada and the world.
00:07:05.100 We had COVID.
00:07:06.100 We had the lockdowns.
00:07:07.540 We had the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:07:09.620 We had the global energy shock.
00:07:11.460 We know that things are hard.
00:07:13.300 And that is why we are acting with purpose on the issues that matter the most to Canadians.
00:07:18.920 Her response?
00:07:20.300 COVID.
00:07:21.500 Russia.
00:07:22.620 All the usual things.
00:07:24.080 That is her sales pitch to Canadians.
00:07:26.420 I don't know who Justin Trudeau's strategist is, but repeating the line that Canada is in a really challenging time and that we've gone through a really challenging time is not a good sales pitch.
00:07:38.740 It's not a good slogan on the campaign trail.
00:07:41.260 But if Liberal cabinet ministers are living with Justin Trudeau in this trance of denial, his backbenchers certainly aren't.
00:07:48.540 Take Liberal MP from Prince Edward Island, Sean Casey, who said when asked about Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' poor polling data,
00:07:57.860 I don't know.
00:07:59.260 We've done some good things.
00:08:01.180 That's the best he's got.
00:08:02.800 Liberal MP Anthony Housefather didn't even try to put up a fight.
00:08:07.180 He just said he's going to try to win his seat and that people don't vote for the prime minister.
00:08:12.080 They vote for an MP.
00:08:13.480 Wow, what a vote of confidence in his boss, right?
00:08:16.440 The writing has been on the wall for Justin Trudeau for well over a year now.
00:08:19.760 We know this.
00:08:20.440 We've seen this.
00:08:21.320 Nothing has been working for them.
00:08:22.660 But with a by-election in Toronto on June 24th, in a downtown Toronto Liberal stronghold riding, which very well might flip blue,
00:08:31.640 this could be the moment that everything falls apart for the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:08:36.220 With the legacy media turning their backs on the Liberals, with Justin Trudeau being peppered every time he speaks to even his most loyal journalists about resigning,
00:08:46.500 and with this new public polling data showing that the majority really want to see him go,
00:08:52.320 what is there to really hold on to at this point?
00:08:54.300 One thing you can say is that this time, unlike any other time in Justin Trudeau's premiership,
00:09:01.440 it feels more certain that we are living in the final chapters of the Justin Trudeau story.
00:09:07.980 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:09:10.700 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:09:11.940 Reminder to let me know your answer in the comments section below.
00:09:15.000 Do you think Justin Trudeau will resign this summer?
00:09:18.400 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ration.
00:09:21.340 We'll be right back.