Juno News - August 30, 2021


When will Canadians get sick of Justin Trudeau？

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Justin Trudeau Brian Mulroney Stephen Harper Jean Chrétien Hazel McCallion Dalton McGinty Erin O'Toole Mel Lassman
It's gravy train season in Toronto! Some Canadians really, really, really hate Justin Trudeau

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3 minutes

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205.71

Word count

780

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41


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Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister of Canada for six years, and people are starting to get tired of him. They're tired of scandals, they're sick of the scandals, and they're ready for a change. Is it time for him to go?

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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.