Juno News - August 30, 2021


When will Canadians get sick of Justin Trudeau？


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3 minutes

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780

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00:00:00.000 What is the natural amount of time for Justin Trudeau to stay in office as Prime Minister until
00:00:09.760 people get sick of him, until he has worn out his welcome? What do I mean by that question,
00:00:15.020 natural amount of time? Well, every political leader, every government, they all have something
00:00:21.020 of a bit of an expiry date, kind of just caked into them, that eventually they sort of hit upon.
00:00:26.480 In the United States, when it comes to American presidents, I think they're kind of wise in
00:00:30.660 terms of setting things at eight years, two four-year terms. I mean, I believe that if the
00:00:35.200 people want to keep electing someone for many terms and so forth, well, that's a good argument
00:00:39.280 against term limits. But that idea, eight years, okay, that's a good chunk of time for someone to
00:00:44.560 be in office and then, okay, you're done, get out of here now. In Canada, there seems to be a bit of
00:00:50.680 a natural timeline, give or take, around the same time period. We've got politicians like Brian
00:00:56.120 Mulrooney, Jean Chrétien, Stephen Harper, Dalton McGinty in Ontario, who all stuck around for
00:01:01.700 about a decade. There's obviously examples of people who've only been around for a year and a
00:01:05.360 half, others who've been around for many years longer. Mayors, many examples of mayors like
00:01:09.840 Hazel McCallion and Mel Lassman, who stuck around for decades. But I feel like on the provincial level,
00:01:15.220 particularly on the federal level, the shelf life, it's a little smaller. Where does Justin Trudeau
00:01:20.400 fit in all of this? What is his sort of shelf life? Where even people who like him, even his own
00:01:26.160 party, even people who say, yeah, I'm liberal, when asked to identify sort of what political
00:01:30.900 persuasion they stand behind, how long will it take for them to go, I'm just kind of tired of this
00:01:37.340 Trudeau guy. You got to sub him out, get him out of here. It's time for a change, because that has
00:01:42.000 clearly happened to many leaders in the past. Justin Trudeau, he's in this interesting position right now.
00:01:47.420 He's been in office for six years, but a number of people have observed that those six years, well,
00:01:52.720 they're really weighty six years. They've been a long six years, and that he's managed to actually
00:01:58.880 chalk up scandals and problematic incidents and so forth that other politicians might take eight
00:02:04.660 years or ten years to chalk up. More and more people are frustrated with him, and the troublesome
00:02:09.960 headlines, well, they continue to mount day by day, week by week, month by month, and so forth. So where
00:02:15.620 does Justin Trudeau sit right now? I think maybe he's at it. Maybe he's at six years right now, and
00:02:21.180 you're going to find people who say, well, yeah, I'm a natural liberal voter, liberal supporter, and so
00:02:25.440 forth, but I don't know, I'm going to stay home right now, or I'm just going to ghost away from this
00:02:30.200 one. We're starting to see this in the fact that the polls are actually not going in Justin Trudeau's
00:02:34.980 favor. He thought maybe this election would be an opportunity to secure majority. That's obviously why they
00:02:39.660 called it when they did, and now we see, uh-oh, the numbers are actually not so good. Liberal support is
00:02:45.180 really softening. Some people are heading over to the NDP. Aaron O'Toole, he's doing pretty well, and
00:02:50.340 the polls are favoring him in many respects right now. So has Justin Trudeau just kind of met his
00:02:55.960 expiry date as prime minister in terms of how long he has got? That, well, yes, those people I mentioned
00:03:01.560 before, Brian Mulrooney, Jean Chrétien, Stephen Harper, they all had about a decade in them. Justin Trudeau,
00:03:06.820 uh-uh, you're going to be cut short. You're not going to get that full decade. You're not going to
00:03:11.840 get that additional term, that there's just so much baggage that people are just kind of growing tired.
00:03:17.540 They want to see a new face on the federal scene. Who knows? Anything can happen. It's still pretty
00:03:21.960 early, and, you know, a week, as they say, is a lifetime in politics. Numbers could totally switch
00:03:26.360 around again. Justin Trudeau could make a comeback, and he could secure the majority, but I do think that
00:03:31.380 maybe he's just, he's just hitting upon his timeline differently than other politicians, and that
00:03:36.780 six years, it's been a long time for Justin Trudeau, and maybe people are kind of feeling,
00:03:41.800 all right, thanks, but we're kind of done with you right now. We shall see,
00:03:45.100 but it'll be an interesting few weeks to come.