The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Justin Trudeau is considering resigning as Prime Minister!

00:00:00.000 Hello everyone, Wyatt Claypool here. Are we at the end of an era everyone? Because apparently

00:00:07.020 sources are now telling CTV News that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is either considering

00:00:13.500 proroguing government or resigning. Here is Made in Canada saying what the CTV News report is,

00:00:20.260 and this is just verbatim taken from the CTV News website, says Breaking. Sources tell CTV News

00:00:25.400 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering resigning or proroguing parliament and he may

00:00:30.940 address parliament this afternoon. So obviously those are two extremely different options and I'm

00:00:38.040 wondering if Justin Trudeau is engaging in some brinksmanship, trying to force liberal MPs

00:00:44.780 dissatisfied with him to put their money where their mouths are and demand that he either resign today

00:00:49.900 or Justin Trudeau is going to shut down parliament for a couple months so that he can have some sort

00:00:55.040 of reset in the new year. Let's be honest, there is no time for a reset anymore in this government.

00:01:01.400 If he had two years, maybe he could prorogue, but if he didn't come back and immediately start

00:01:06.380 reversing course on all of his policies, he would still be dead in the water. So really the net effect

00:01:11.380 is nothing. But now he's saying suddenly he will resign, even though earlier in the day he was telling

00:01:17.920 people or his office was saying absolutely no way he's going to resign. Here is a liberal MP. Let's

00:01:25.280 just go through some of the liberal MPs asking for Trudeau to resign or saying that they still stick by

00:01:30.960 him in the liberal government because, you know, it's just absolute chaos in parliament here and

00:01:36.700 let's try and sort through a little bit of it. Before I get into that, make sure that if you watch this

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00:01:50.980 that sort of thing. So we have this clip being shared by Cat Canada here with a liberal MP being

00:01:58.060 asked what he thinks about all the chaos going on. And he says he stands firmly behind the liberal

00:02:03.020 brand. Does it feel like the end to you? I've been a lifelong liberal. I'm a, you know, I was 12 years

00:02:10.580 old when I joined the liberal party of Canada and I have never doubted the day that the liberal party

00:02:16.580 is the strongest party in this country and that we will always have the leader we need at the right

00:02:21.180 time and we'll continue to be the liberal party. Let's be clear also there. He is not exactly backing

00:02:26.960 Trudeau strongly with that statement. So he's talking about being the strongest party and he's

00:02:31.640 focusing very much on the party, but doesn't actually even whisper Trudeau's name in this entire

00:02:36.640 statement because he doesn't know if in 45 minutes Trudeau is not no longer the PM and he 0.98

00:02:42.560 looks like an idiot for saying that, oh no, of course, Justin Trudeau is the right leader for us 0.98

00:02:46.640 in 2025. I have said to the prime minister, if he wants my advice on his leadership or comments, 0.99

00:02:54.900 I'll give them directly only to him. That's, I've been really clear about that. So it's, it's,

00:02:59.760 it's a, it's a day, um, where we will, um, uh, I think there's gotta be some reflection going on.

00:03:05.380 And, um, I was Christian Freeland's parliamentary secretary and I have huge respect for her and I

00:03:11.240 will continue to have huge respect for her. And I'm really glad she has, her confidence is in the

00:03:14.920 liberal party and she is going to run as a member of parliament. And I, isn't that funny though?

00:03:19.560 Nobody actually will name Justin Trudeau, but every time Christian Freeland is brought up,

00:03:26.620 people start gushing. Oh, she's so nice. I worked for her and she was a great friend of me.

00:03:33.060 Uh, great to see that she's still running for us and has confidence of party. I'm wondering if

00:03:37.560 Freeland is now out of revenge against Trudeau going to try and gun to become the next prime minister

00:03:43.200 and then block Mark Carney from being part of the government. Cause obviously Mark Carney was

00:03:48.680 effectively Justin Trudeau's hatchet man. He was bringing in to replace, uh, Justin Trudeau,

00:03:54.520 but, uh, HOC staffer here on Twitter has a running list of those MPs currently calling for Justin

00:04:01.080 Trudeau to resign, which are Francis Drouin and Chad Collins. The Chad Collins one is very interesting.

00:04:08.380 And this is also on top of Wayne Long and another liberal MP who in previous months have said that

00:04:13.600 Trudeau should resign. Obviously I don't think they're now firmly in the Justin Trudeau camp.

00:04:18.680 But the Chad Collins one is interesting because there are more MPs, uh, attached to Chad Collins

00:04:25.400 who are kind of following his lead, but not named yet. So here is, uh, pure poly of reacting to this

00:04:32.900 whole resignation by Christia Freeland. And you can tell he's having a good day and able to use every

00:04:38.360 single, uh, favorite jab on Trudeau and just go completely scorched earth here.

00:04:43.400 Everything is spiraling out of control, out of control. Spending and bureaucracy has doubled

00:04:48.540 housing costs with 1400 homeless encampments have taking over Ontario alone out of control.

00:04:53.920 Admitted immigration has led to refugee camps opening in suburban Canada. And then we have 500,000 people

00:05:01.660 in the country illegally, according to government estimates out of control. Crime overtakes our once

00:05:07.540 tranquil streets with gun crime having doubled out of control drugs and disorder add to the chaos with

00:05:13.920 47,000 of our people dead of overdoses since Trudeau legalized drug laws stopped enforcing them and

00:05:21.340 allowed limitless sums of fentanyl ingredients into our country out of control. Inflation has followed

00:05:26.980 out of control money printing, which has sent out of control demand to our food banks, which are running.

00:05:33.460 This is a good backdrop, just to kind of cut in here for a second. This is a good backdrop as to why

00:05:39.360 apparently, uh, I believe who is a Philippe Champagne was asked if he wants to become the new finance

00:05:45.600 minister after Christia Freeland. And he said, no, apparently, obviously this is all going on in the

00:05:51.720 background. But the whole point is when you listen to all the issues we're currently having, at least half

00:05:57.100 of the ones he's talked about here are economic, who wants to be the last man to take the helm of a

00:06:02.640 position that's about to be burned up in less than a year. And you're going to get thrown out as like

00:06:08.060 the failed finance minister at the end of a government. When are you ever going to run for

00:06:12.360 anything significant after that? You were like that you were again, you were like the loyalist

00:06:17.180 to the delusional leader of the delusional prime minister. So nobody would ever trust that you're like

00:06:24.200 a steady person in the future running out of food altogether. Out of control spending has doubled our

00:06:29.700 national debt, boosted interest rates and threatened our social programs. And it's not just Freeland who

00:06:35.580 thinks this prime minister is out of control. Now housing minister, Sean Frazier has resigned in the

00:06:41.680 middle of a housing crisis. The minister is resigning. The finance minister is resigning in the middle of

00:06:47.640 an economic price crisis and a fifth of his liberal caucus has left lost confidence in him. Justin

00:06:54.120 Trudeau has lost control and yet he clings to power. We cannot accept this kind of chaos, division,

00:07:01.000 weakness while we're staring down the barrel of a 25% tariff from our biggest trading partner and

00:07:08.280 closest ally. The one thing I will say about the 25% trading tariff, like the tariff on our trade,

00:07:14.080 is it's very unlikely to happen. Even as terrible as Justin Trudeau is as a prime minister, I don't think

00:07:20.400 he's stupid enough to go sluggish on increasing border security. And he probably doesn't even have 1.00

00:07:25.200 to do a lot for Trump to be satisfied and not put up the 25% tariff because a 25% tariff would hurt the

00:07:31.520 U.S. too. Also, Sean Frazier, the former housing minister who just resigned last night and said he's

00:07:37.660 not running for reelection. I guarantee you that what he's going to do, because these are the rumors,

00:07:42.940 is that now that Anthony Fury in Nova Scotia has gotten himself a second big PC majority government

00:07:50.660 term in Nova Scotia, that the liberals obviously need a new leader. Sean Frazier is from Nova Scotia,

00:07:57.120 and it's maybe a soft landing place for him to jump on as Nova Scotia liberal leader. He has

00:08:03.180 enough profile probably locally to win that. And he can sort of, you know, like very slyly exit out

00:08:10.320 of federal liberal politics that way, while pretending it's really just like, there's just

00:08:14.660 such a good opportunity over here, I had to pursue it, when it's more of the fact that everything's

00:08:19.000 burning up in the current liberal government. But here is reporter Mercedes Stevenson talking about

00:08:25.820 what the prime minister is thinking. She says, the chaos of cabinet today, a senior government source

00:08:30.560 tells me the prime minister is not considering resounding. Another source tells me he is being,

00:08:35.080 it is being discussed in cabinet. And at this point, what does cabinet even look like to Trudeau?

00:08:41.200 Because the rumor is that two more ministers were also supposed to resign today after Frazier and

00:08:47.740 Chrystia Freeland. So how is he even having cabinet meetings minus already two cabinet ministers and two

00:08:54.620 cabinet ministers who probably presumably have no loyalty if they even agree to meet, and they would

00:08:59.560 just maybe leak everything that Justin Trudeau says in the meeting. And so I want to jump over to this clip

00:09:08.380 that Rowan posted on Twitter. This is a great moment where he also, Pollyup goes after Jagmeet Singh for his

00:09:16.440 weakness in this entire situation. Imagine if the government gets taken down, the government collapses, and we have a

00:09:24.040 January election or something like that. And it has nothing to do with Jagmeet Singh. Jagmeet Singh is too

00:09:29.360 pathetic to have actually been the one to undermine Justin Trudeau. And in fact, had to come from within the 0.99

00:09:35.560 Liberal Party, the movement to get rid of Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man,

00:09:43.560 Jagmeet Singh. A fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign. His deputy prime minister

00:09:51.700 has walked out on him. His housing minister has quit. That on top of numerous other female ministers 0.86

00:09:58.860 who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them.

00:10:06.140 A great line to use after Justin Trudeau was at the Equal Voice feminist group just a few days ago,

00:10:12.500 toting how much he respects women and he values women's progress. And wow, I appointed the first

00:10:17.600 finance minister who's a female. It's so nauseating. And also, you know what? Shame on Equal Voice. 1.00

00:10:25.720 Shame on them. Because they are proving they don't actually care about the quality of leadership as

00:10:30.800 long as it's feminist. Why would you even bother inviting Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, who are deeply 1.00

00:10:36.500 despised politicians, to your event to talk about women's progress? What? They are a regressive force 1.00

00:10:42.680 on everybody. Stop bringing them in just because they like to artificially promote women into roles 1.00

00:10:48.600 rather than just picking people based on merit. I don't like organizations like Equal Voice because

00:10:53.640 it cheapens actual achievement. Anyways, I'll let Pierce finish here.

00:10:59.580 80% of Canadians have lost confidence in this prime minister. So why is Jagmeet Singh making the entire

00:11:08.940 country wait for him to get his pension? That is the question today.

00:11:15.780 It's even worse than that. It's not just 80% of Canadians have lost confidence in Justin Trudeau.

00:11:21.180 Only 14% of people polled in abacus data polls consistently say that they would like to see the

00:11:28.420 liberal government re-elected, a Trudeau liberal government re-elected. So it's 86% of people who

00:11:34.260 don't want that to happen. And while, yeah, there's some people who are undecided in that group,

00:11:38.960 undecided usually means you probably are not going to be in favor of what the current default option

00:11:44.100 is, which is the liberal government. But now I want to talk a little bit more about the Chad Collins

00:11:50.780 issue, because as you would have seen before, there was only two people listed as MPs today who

00:11:56.640 called for Trudeau to resign. And then we know about other MPs like Wayne Long from New Brunswick,

00:12:02.620 who have also said that Justin Trudeau should resign. But how is it that Polyev said there was

00:12:07.360 a fifth of them saying that they want Trudeau to resign? Well, it's because Chad Collins said in

00:12:12.660 his call for Justin Trudeau to resign, he says in October, and this is back when that mini palace

00:12:18.160 coup had occurred, but didn't really go anywhere. He says, he says, in October, I signed a letter with

00:12:23.580 23 MPs from across Canada, asking the prime minister to step down and beginning formal process to

00:12:29.820 replace him. Today, I publicly reiterate my request that the prime minister step down and

00:12:34.640 initiate a leadership process to take our country in a new direction. The funny thing is, this is all

00:12:39.380 very pathetic, because there's actually no powers in the Liberal Party to replace a leader. Caucus can't 0.94

00:12:44.740 just vote to get rid of him. Even cabinet, I don't believe, can vote to get rid of him. They just kind

00:12:48.560 of have to convince him to step down. But I can guarantee you, it's not just 23 MPs anymore,

00:12:54.080 because really, is it only going to be about 23 MPs who've signed this letter alongside Chad Collins

00:12:59.880 that are now not on side with Trudeau? It's not like any of them are now on side since this

00:13:05.420 happened in October. The crisis was far smaller. I would say in terms of magnitude, the crisis of

00:13:11.680 October was only a third as bad as things are currently now in December. And I guarantee that

00:13:17.460 23 MPs probably has ballooned to probably about half of Caucus once Trudeau gone at least.

00:13:23.360 And the other half are probably knowing that they're, you know, frankly, such non-entities

00:13:31.380 as MPs. The only reason they need Trudeau around is he is their blood bag of relevance. The only way

00:13:37.320 Mark Gerritsen is going to get into cabinet and have a really big role is if Trudeau gives it to

00:13:43.640 him. Because nobody other than Trudeau would be stupid enough to give Mark Gerritsen responsibility. 0.99

00:13:48.100 Here is a, here's Anita Anand walking into Parliament today being filmed by CPAC and her reacting to 0.99

00:13:55.420 Chrystia Freeland's resignation. Again, I find all their reactions, their emotional reactions to

00:14:00.960 Chrystia Freeland resigning without naming Trudeau is very, very telling.

00:14:05.320 Chrystia Freeland is a good friend, someone I work with very, very closely as president of the

00:14:15.020 Treasury Board and Minister of Transport. This news has hit me really hard. And I'll reserve further

00:14:21.660 comment until I have time to process it.

00:14:23.320 Time to process it. You can't, you can't process it. It's a pretty straight, easy cut thing to

00:14:30.180 like to talk about. Here is the Francois Gerritsen reacting to the, reacting to all the news and saying

00:14:39.060 the Prime Minister needs to resign.

00:14:40.260 Obviously, we've, many of my colleagues have put up, and I've been a great defender, but I just don't

00:14:45.540 see how we, we move forward without having a future minister resign. Today was supposed to be a

00:14:51.780 presentation of a plan, and now we're talking about a finance minister who has resigned. I don't see

00:14:56.280 how this helps the Prime Minister, and I don't see a way out, and how this helps us talk about

00:15:01.120 Canadians while we're continuing to talk about what's happening right now.

00:15:04.500 So there was supposed to be a fall economic statement put out today, and they have all of

00:15:09.400 the like packages, the books that, that like contain all the fall economic statement information

00:15:15.220 covered in black blankets right now at the place that they were supposed to make the

00:15:19.400 announcement, and they've had to push back the announcement time from 10pm Eastern all

00:15:24.000 the way to 1.45 Eastern. So it's probably, I think they might have handed them out now,

00:15:29.540 or I think it was like 1.45 tomorrow. Yeah, it's been a complete disaster.

00:15:34.460 He needs to go. Sorry, I'd like to hear you.

00:15:36.820 I think he needs to go. Yeah.

00:15:38.780 Justin Trudeau.

00:15:39.700 Yeah. Yeah. I think today's resignation is a sign of that.

00:15:43.860 Yeah. So there's no, there's, I don't think, I don't, how does Justin Trudeau stick around

00:15:49.360 at this point? Like, yeah, you could just say he's shameless enough to do it. And like,

00:15:54.260 I agree with that. At the same time, like at some point you think that this would be the

00:16:00.920 perfect time for Justin Trudeau to do what his father did and take his long walk in the snow.

00:16:07.380 And then maybe he comes back one day. I'm a conservative. I don't want him in office at all.

00:16:12.560 I never wanted him in office back in 2015. Never voted for the guy. I don't like the liberal

00:16:17.140 party, but from like an analysis of what you would do, if you want to be Justin Trudeau and have a

00:16:22.060 career, dude, really, are you just going to blow the rest of your time in office doing this last

00:16:27.220 10 month charge into a failed election and probably having the worst liberal party loss ever? Or do you

00:16:33.560 leave now, make up some stuff about how people are undermining you. You let someone else be prime

00:16:38.760 minister. And then you come back in 10 years or something like that with a nice tan.

00:16:42.960 I don't know. I don't know. He's just out of rope at this point. If he prorogues parliament,

00:16:49.000 that would be incredible that we all sit here in limbo for a month and a half pretending like we

00:16:53.840 didn't just see a coup taking place and that he's just basically abducted. I don't even know what you

00:17:00.060 do. Like, he's just going to prorogue and hope that the GST holiday really lightens everyone's

00:17:05.760 moods. And once the $250 checks hit the people's bank accounts in April, then everyone's going to

00:17:11.200 be happy. At the same time, the carbon tax increases. It's almost going to double. And who's

00:17:16.840 going to like any of this? Who likes any of this stuff? Even Chrystia Freeland's letter when she

00:17:21.400 resigned basically said she probably wanted to move in a more conservative direction. Isn't that funny 0.99

00:17:26.580 how they conserve all the liberals as their economic policies fail? As they get, they've fully

00:17:32.740 implemented pretty much everything they want to do. They do whatever they want whenever they want.

00:17:37.760 And notice how the more they do that, the more appealing it seems to do something more conservative

00:17:42.100 because the very lefty policies they've been pursuing, the socialistic policies, do not work.

00:17:48.720 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys. I do not doubt I might be back even later today with

00:17:54.260 another update of what's going on. It's crazy out there. Stay safe.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 16, 2024

Justin Trudeau is considering resigning as Prime Minister!

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