Justin Trudeau RESIGNS - Parliament prorogued for Liberal leadership race
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and Justin Trudeau's resigning.
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You can't really add anything else to the news cycle other than that.
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So, on the one day where I was most tired, thank you Trudeau for the last indignity,
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Trudeau decided to saunter out from his residency and declare that he is going to resign as Prime Minister,
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not until March, but he is resigning after a Liberal leadership race is held,
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and he is going to prorogue Parliament to prevent the NDP and the Conservatives from having a no-confidence vote and forcing an election.
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Let's just check out the video, because I think we all need to see it.
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It is a point in Canadian history right now, seeing Trudeau finally leave office.
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And I'll just note, as this plays, you can actually tell that Trudeau is visually upset.
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It probably is something that he only decided to do yesterday, like he ends up saying in the clip.
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So, I thought it might be fun for us to do this again.
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Every morning I've woken up as Prime Minister, I've been inspired by the resilience, the generosity, and the determination of Canadians.
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It is the driving force of every single day I have the privilege of serving in this office.
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That is why, since 2015, I've fought for this country, for you, to strengthen and grow the middle class.
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Why we rallied to support each other through the pandemic, to advance reconciliation,
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to defend free trade on this continent, to stand strong with Ukraine and our democracy.
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Every bone in my body has always told me to fight because I care deeply about Canadians.
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I care deeply about this country, and I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians.
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And the fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months
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after what has been the longest session of a minority Parliament in Canadian history.
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That's why, this morning, I advised the Governor-General that we need a new session of Parliament.
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She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24th.
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Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future.
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I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today.
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I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime Minister,
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after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
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Last night, I asked the President of the Liberal Party to begin that process.
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This country deserves a real choice in the next election,
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and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles,
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You think the classy thing to say right there would be that,
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I've seen what people think, and I am not that option.
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With their internal struggles happening inside the Liberal Party.
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Yes, it's the Liberal Party that's holding you back and cramping your style.
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Now, right after this happened, we immediately had Christy Clark declare her intention to run for the Liberal Party leadership,
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which was really pathetic to see because everyone knew she was trying to run for it.
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Justin Trudeau resigns, and Christy Clark's running for leadership.
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But nobody cares who Christy Clark is going to be.
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This is going to be the most boring Liberal leadership race we've ever seen in our lives,
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Because all of the top Liberals who want this job are the most boring people you've ever seen in your entire lives.
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They're as incompetent as Trudeau, but they don't even have any of the fun of the personality.
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So that's the thing that we have to mourn today.
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Trudeau is going to resign from office, and he's not going to be the Prime Minister after March 24th.
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But what? Trudeau's not Prime Minister anymore?
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We're going to have to talk about Christy Freeland or Mark Carney or Christy Clark as Prime Minister?
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And we're going to have three Prime Ministers in one year.
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We're going to have whoever the person who's replacing him is going to be.
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Maybe someone even convinces him to have an interim Prime Minister for a little bit.
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But we're going to have Trudeau, the idiot who replaces him, and then we're going to have Pierre Polyev.
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We're trying to compete with Kim Campbell on how to cheapen the Prime Minister's office.
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After a lifetime of public service, Justin Trudeau has stepped aside as both leader in the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.
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I want to thank him as a Canadian for a service to the country that he so clearly loves.
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As a lifelong Liberal, I look forward to joining the tens of thousands of Canadians to choose our new leader.
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This is the biggest opportunity over a decade we've had to grow our party and to welcome new Liberals,
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including Canadians concerned about the future of our country.
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She's doing the whole, I look forward to joining tens of thousands of Canadians.
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It's also going to be like hundreds of thousands of people who are going to vote in this thing.
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But she's doing this whole, like, I want to, I'm with them.
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That's the only reason you're in federal Liberal politics right now,
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palling around with random MPs doing door knocking with them,
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It's kind of wild to just live in this moment right now.
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Just seeing all of the people reacting to Trudeau resigning.
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Like, Fox News having a massive alert and talking about it, like, wall-to-wall right now.
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Like, here is Fox News talking about it right here.
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We've got some breaking news north of the border.
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Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, moments ago says he will resign today.
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Says he will stay on until a replacement is picked.
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CBC is reporting that he set to hold a news conference next hour.
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Trudeau is facing mounting pressure for within his own Liberal Party to step down.
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He trails behind opposition conservatives in Canada.
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He got all that up against him for Canadian citizens.
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But like Trudeau said, it was just the internal dysfunction that made him leave.
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And in a certain sense, I actually do believe him, that he was ready to fight.
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But he believes, at least, that his unpopularity wasn't a big problem.
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And it was Christian Freeland stabbing him in the back that was the problem.
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Now we wonder, who is Justin Trudeau going to be backing?
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What's the Liberal leadership race going to be about?
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Because none of these people seem to disagree on any policy.
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It's going to be a personality war with the most boring people you've ever seen on the planet.
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I thought he wasn't going to resign until the caucus meeting on Wednesday if he decided to resign today.
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I wanted to see you go to the end, even though I think it is good for the country to have bad prime ministers
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or bad politicians in general resign when they clearly can't do anything else in office.
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But, wow, this is going to really change how things are done in Canadian politics.
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I don't know how many times I can emphasize that.
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I'll be back probably later today making another video about the fallout that's happening with this.
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I don't even know how you comment on any of this, this cataclysm that's going on right now.