The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 06, 2025


Justin Trudeau RESIGNS - Parliament prorogued for Liberal leadership race


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9 minutes

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1,467

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99

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Justin Trudeau resigns as Prime Minister of Canada and calls for a new party leadership election to be held after a Liberal leadership race. He also announces a plan to prorogue Parliament to prevent the NDP and Tories from forcing an election.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and Justin Trudeau's resigning.
00:00:06.000 You can't really add anything else to the news cycle other than that.
00:00:10.020 So, on the one day where I was most tired, thank you Trudeau for the last indignity,
00:00:15.740 Trudeau decided to saunter out from his residency and declare that he is going to resign as Prime Minister,
00:00:22.200 not until March, but he is resigning after a Liberal leadership race is held,
00:00:27.960 and he is going to prorogue Parliament to prevent the NDP and the Conservatives from having a no-confidence vote and forcing an election.
00:00:37.600 Let's just check out the video, because I think we all need to see it.
00:00:41.000 It is a point in Canadian history right now, seeing Trudeau finally leave office.
00:00:46.520 And I'll just note, as this plays, you can actually tell that Trudeau is visually upset.
00:00:51.620 It probably is something that he only decided to do yesterday, like he ends up saying in the clip.
00:00:57.960 So, I thought it might be fun for us to do this again.
00:01:19.780 Bon matin.
00:01:23.460 Every morning I've woken up as Prime Minister, I've been inspired by the resilience, the generosity, and the determination of Canadians.
00:01:33.560 It is the driving force of every single day I have the privilege of serving in this office.
00:01:39.200 That is why, since 2015, I've fought for this country, for you, to strengthen and grow the middle class.
00:01:50.720 Why we rallied to support each other through the pandemic, to advance reconciliation,
00:01:55.940 to defend free trade on this continent, to stand strong with Ukraine and our democracy.
00:02:05.620 My friends, as you all know, I'm a fighter.
00:02:10.260 Every bone in my body has always told me to fight because I care deeply about Canadians.
00:02:16.460 I care deeply about this country, and I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians.
00:02:26.300 And the fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months
00:02:35.160 after what has been the longest session of a minority Parliament in Canadian history.
00:02:42.380 That's why, this morning, I advised the Governor-General that we need a new session of Parliament.
00:02:50.160 She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24th.
00:02:56.160 Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future.
00:03:07.560 I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today.
00:03:13.220 I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime Minister,
00:03:17.780 after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
00:03:27.480 Last night, I asked the President of the Liberal Party to begin that process.
00:03:33.300 This country deserves a real choice in the next election,
00:03:37.060 and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles,
00:03:43.020 I cannot be the best option in that election.
00:03:47.140 I do like that even on the way out of office,
00:03:52.580 Justin Trudeau is still blaming other people.
00:03:55.060 You think the classy thing to say right there would be that,
00:03:57.840 and I have, you know, I've seen the polls,
00:04:00.940 I've seen what people think, and I am not that option.
00:04:03.300 No, he's saying, I can't be that option.
00:04:06.220 With their internal struggles happening inside the Liberal Party.
00:04:09.380 It's like, okay, dude, yeah, you're so cool.
00:04:12.500 Yes, it's the Liberal Party that's holding you back and cramping your style.
00:04:16.400 Now, right after this happened, we immediately had Christy Clark declare her intention to run for the Liberal Party leadership,
00:04:26.140 which was really pathetic to see because everyone knew she was trying to run for it.
00:04:30.620 What's the point of even announcing it?
00:04:32.780 I guess she wants the headlines to be,
00:04:34.720 Justin Trudeau resigns, and Christy Clark's running for leadership.
00:04:38.720 But nobody cares who Christy Clark is going to be.
00:04:41.620 This is going to be the most boring Liberal leadership race we've ever seen in our lives,
00:04:46.220 or leadership race in general.
00:04:48.080 Because all of the top Liberals who want this job are the most boring people you've ever seen in your entire lives.
00:04:55.300 They're as incompetent as Trudeau, but they don't even have any of the fun of the personality.
00:05:00.160 So that's the thing that we have to mourn today.
00:05:03.180 Guys, ding dong, the witch is dead. 0.98
00:05:05.700 Trudeau is going to resign from office, and he's not going to be the Prime Minister after March 24th.
00:05:11.380 But what? Trudeau's not Prime Minister anymore?
00:05:14.580 We're going to have to talk about Christy Freeland or Mark Carney or Christy Clark as Prime Minister?
00:05:19.900 What the heck?
00:05:21.080 And we're going to have three Prime Ministers in one year.
00:05:23.160 We're going to have Trudeau.
00:05:24.740 We're going to have whoever the person who's replacing him is going to be.
00:05:28.460 Maybe someone even convinces him to have an interim Prime Minister for a little bit.
00:05:32.880 But we're going to have Trudeau, the idiot who replaces him, and then we're going to have Pierre Polyev.
00:05:38.340 We're trying to compete with Kim Campbell on how to cheapen the Prime Minister's office.
00:05:45.860 Here's what Christy Clark said.
00:05:47.320 After a lifetime of public service, Justin Trudeau has stepped aside as both leader in the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.
00:05:54.720 I want to thank him as a Canadian for a service to the country that he so clearly loves.
00:05:58.900 I wish him and his family well.
00:06:00.660 As a lifelong Liberal, I look forward to joining the tens of thousands of Canadians to choose our new leader.
00:06:06.180 This is the biggest opportunity over a decade we've had to grow our party and to welcome new Liberals,
00:06:10.920 including Canadians concerned about the future of our country.
00:06:14.180 Let's seize it.
00:06:14.960 She's doing the whole, I look forward to joining tens of thousands of Canadians.
00:06:19.500 It's also going to be like hundreds of thousands of people who are going to vote in this thing.
00:06:23.180 But she's doing this whole, like, I want to, I'm with them.
00:06:26.120 No, you're running.
00:06:27.200 Everyone knows you're running.
00:06:28.820 That's the only reason you're in federal Liberal politics right now,
00:06:32.660 palling around with random MPs doing door knocking with them,
00:06:36.860 is because you want to run someday.
00:06:39.400 And now, today is that day.
00:06:41.760 It's kind of wild to just live in this moment right now.
00:06:46.300 It's surreal.
00:06:47.960 Just seeing all of the people reacting to Trudeau resigning.
00:06:53.980 Like, Fox News having a massive alert and talking about it, like, wall-to-wall right now.
00:06:59.800 Like, what can you say?
00:07:03.140 Like, here is Fox News talking about it right here.
00:07:06.460 We've got some breaking news north of the border.
00:07:13.100 Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, moments ago says he will resign today.
00:07:18.880 Says he will stay on until a replacement is picked.
00:07:21.560 CBC is reporting that he set to hold a news conference next hour.
00:07:25.920 Trudeau is facing mounting pressure for within his own Liberal Party to step down.
00:07:30.580 He trails behind opposition conservatives in Canada.
00:07:34.640 His job approval, rather, is in free fall.
00:07:37.680 He got affordable housing shortages.
00:07:39.480 He got persistent inflation.
00:07:40.780 He got worsening economic outlook.
00:07:42.420 He got all that up against him for Canadian citizens.
00:07:46.200 So we'll get...
00:07:47.120 But like Trudeau said, it was just the internal dysfunction that made him leave.
00:07:51.240 He was ready to fight.
00:07:52.280 And in a certain sense, I actually do believe him, that he was ready to fight.
00:07:57.320 But he believes, at least, that his unpopularity wasn't a big problem.
00:08:02.540 And it was Christian Freeland stabbing him in the back that was the problem.
00:08:06.860 Now we wonder, who is Justin Trudeau going to be backing?
00:08:10.220 What's the Liberal leadership race going to be about?
00:08:12.660 What are the issues going to be?
00:08:14.760 Because none of these people seem to disagree on any policy.
00:08:17.320 It's going to be a personality war with the most boring people you've ever seen on the planet.
00:08:22.280 I don't even know what to say.
00:08:25.040 I can say I was wrong.
00:08:26.580 I thought he wasn't going to resign until the caucus meeting on Wednesday if he decided to resign today.
00:08:32.660 Weak move, Justin.
00:08:33.920 I wanted to see you go to the end, even though I think it is good for the country to have bad prime ministers
00:08:39.680 or bad politicians in general resign when they clearly can't do anything else in office.
00:08:45.160 But, wow, this is going to really change how things are done in Canadian politics.
00:08:50.100 I don't know how many times I can emphasize that.
00:08:52.820 I'll be back probably later today making another video about the fallout that's happening with this.
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