Justin Trudeau refuses to resign despite Liberals turning on him
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Summary
PM Justin Trudeau says he's going to be in it for the long haul as Prime Minister, despite the fact that his party is down 20 points in the polls, and some of his own MPs are calling for him to step down.
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Hello everybody, I'm coming to you from a different location than I'm usually in,
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but it's kind of fitting because everything Canadian politics is massively in flux right now
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with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obviously being in a position where he should be resigning
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from office and letting the Liberals pick a slightly more competent leader, but he won't.
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It's one of my favorite things to watch, the Liberals now having to deal with the egotism
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and hubris of Justin Trudeau, the thing that they've been trying to deny was a problem for years.
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Justin Trudeau wasn't too full of himself, he doesn't just make decisions for personal gain,
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he's fighting for you, the Canadian people. And now that the Liberals are down the polls by like
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20 points, now they're annoyed with Justin Trudeau not leaving office, now they're like,
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oh goodness, this guy cannot be controlled, he doesn't see logic, and we're all sitting here like,
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yeah, that's what we've been telling you guys, and you guys have been backing him to the hilt
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until five seconds ago where there's all these Liberals secretly behind the scenes with a few
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of them actually putting their names for him, saying that Justin Trudeau either needs to be
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subjected to a leadership review or just needs to outright resign completely. And now Justin Trudeau
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is on this big media offensive to try and undermine those saying that he should be stepping down
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by going to every single friendly media outlet and saying, I'm staying on, I'm gonna see this
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thing through, trying to preempt these people to try and, you know, play a game of chicken with some
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of these Liberal MPs who want to see him gone, and then force their hand into either coming out
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publicly against him or falling back into line. In a certain sense, this is kind of politically
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intelligent for Justin Trudeau to be doing, but in terms of the actual functioning of the country,
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this is disastrous for all of us, but at least we can sit around and laugh about it. But here is
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Prime Minister Trudeau on CBC today saying that he's going to be in it for the long haul as Prime
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Minister. I'm wondering in terms of personal contemplation, if there's any discussion or a
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thought for you of a 10th Canada Day as Prime Minister, because as I have you, I would be remiss
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if I didn't ask about what has happened in the last week since the by-election in Toronto,
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St. Paul's and the calls from caucus members and former cabinet colleagues, they say it's time for
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Listen, there's always going to be lots of reflection after a tough loss, but there's also so much to do,
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and I am committed to doing the work of building a better Canada every single day. So I look forward
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to next year's Canada Day, and I look forward to many more Canada Days. This is the kind of work that we
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have to remember really, really matters. Tough days and there are better days, but Canadians
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are strong and resilient, and that's why we keep moving forward.
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Goodness. I like how he even says there that, you know, there are tough days and we need to reflect
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after a bad loss like this, but he's not reflecting. He immediately in the next step just says,
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but there's a lot of work to do, so I'm not going to step back. I'm not going to acknowledge any of my
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colleagues might have a point. He knows they have a point. That's why he's aggressively doing media
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interviews and putting up press releases and having lackeys like Christian Freeland go out and say,
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no, he's the strong leader we need, because he's trying to create like a wall of propaganda now between
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himself and his own colleagues. He used to do this to try and insulate himself from the Canadian people,
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having the media just repeating his talking points over and over again, talking to cabinet colleagues
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saying that, no, actually, Justin Trudeau is doing a brilliant job. It doesn't matter that
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there's more poor people than ever. Look at this fake metric that we have that says we're doing a
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good job, but now he's having to do this inside his own caucus, going out himself and having other
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cabinet ministers go out like Mark Holland and Christian Freeland saying, yes, we hear all the
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concerns of our caucus colleagues, but, you know, things are tough, and that's why we need the guy
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who's been failing for eight years. That's the hilarious thing. Like, no, no, this is not just
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like a rolling up your sleeves kind of a moment and saying, now we got to really get down to the
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hard work. You're on your third term, bro. I'm not sure if I have to explain this to him. I, in a
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certain sense, think he understands all this. He's just gaslighting now his own colleagues.
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But once you're at your third term, there's no like, well, you know, we've had a bad day and now
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we had to push forward. It's been eight years. If this was year three and he's been taking some lumps,
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but, you know, it's not time to, you know, change out horses yet, that would make sense.
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Eight, going on nine years now, I think we're actually closer to year nine than we were to the
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beginning of year eight. This is the time when you need at least a leadership review. The fact that
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he's denying the chance for even a leadership review proves he knows he's vulnerable. When MPs like
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Wayne Long are coming out and saying that you have to go, Wayne Long, who's been a massive Trudeau
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sycophant, that's when you know you need to go. When even your sycophants are getting uncomfortable
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defending your record and they think that maybe you should be taking, you know, a long walk off a
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short pier, that's deeply telling. When George Chahal thinks you need to go, that's scary. George
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Chahal is one of the most useless liberal MPs and he's thinking that if he wants to have even a 10%
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shot of winning re-election in Calgary Skyview, he cannot be on the same ticket as Justin Trudeau.
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You can even tell from the by-election in Toronto St. Paul, a riding that the Liberals had held since
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1988, the Team Trudeau thing that used to be like a big part of their marketing and branding in 1921
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suddenly shrank to like a tenth of the size. Like if you take a magnifying glass, you can see
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the little thing that says Team Trudeau on it, but it's been de-emphasized because he's a boat anchor
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on the brand. And in a certain sense, you could say at this point, the Liberal brand does not exist
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anymore. It's either that you like Trudeau or you hate Trudeau. If you don't like Trudeau,
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you're not then going to say in the next thought, but I do like the Liberal Party because every
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single Liberal MP and cabinet minister might as well just be wearing a mask of Justin Trudeau's
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face because they have no ability to do anything that Justin Trudeau doesn't order them to do.
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You can have criticisms of Stephen Harper when he was prime minister. In a certain sense,
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Stephen Harper was very much someone who liked to control things. Like he liked to micromanage
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things a little bit too much. He's a bit of a perfectionist. But when a minister was put into
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their role, they would very much shape their personality, their priors would shape that
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minister's office because they were actually allowed to do what they wanted to a certain extent.
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With Trudeau, that does not exist. If Trudeau does not want it to be done,
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then it does not get done. That's what's made all of these cabinet shuffles such comedies.
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Is that, well, you know, Sean Frazier was not really the right man for immigration. So let's
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make him the new housing minister. And now let's slot in Mark Miller. There's no difference. It's
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still Justin Trudeau controlling 100% of the decisions that those people make. That's why as
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this, like the lesser names being slotted into cabinet, as like the smaller, the names that have
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been put in start happening, nothing's changed. Aref Arani is frankly just a complete loser. And he's the
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justice minister now, but there's no difference between him and David Lametti. Aref Arani is
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completely incompetent. But the whole point is that the decisions have not changed in their tone
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and tenor because it's still just Justin Trudeau doing it. The minister is purely just a delivery
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system for what Justin Trudeau wants. And that's somewhat true in every government, but it's especially
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true in the liberal government. That's why they can't go into 2025 with him as the prime minister if
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they want even a chance of keeping the conservatives to just a minority government, because every
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negative is baked into his name. There is no positives that really come along with Justin
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Trudeau anymore that the liberals would not keep by swapping out a different leader. There's some
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benefits that they get from Justin Trudeau just being a highly recognized name in Canadian politics
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that you might not get with Mark Carney. But at the same time, the benefits are just so heavily
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outweighed by the negatives. And the negatives are not being, you know, I guess what you would
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just say is the negatives are not being then remedied by a good bench by a good like, you know,
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by good cabinet ministers that people trust or good MPs who are, you know, local pillars of the community
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because they're not allowed to be because they are purely just there to serve Justin Trudeau. And so
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there's no such thing as a liberal MP. There's just the guy who is representing Justin Trudeau in your
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area. Anyways, a bit of a longer rant, but this has been a lot of fun to watch seeing Trudeau
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bumbling around these different interviews, trying to basically shore up all the support. He's in a
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very uncomfortable position right now, which is very comforting for me to watch. Anyways, that should
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