Rumours swirl that Justin Trudeau is preparing to resign!
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool discusses the possibility of Justin Trudeau stepping down as Prime Minister of Canada and why it would be a good thing for the party and the country. He also discusses the growing number of people who want him out of office.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I'm going to cut right to the chase. So there are rumors swirling
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about that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is going to resign from office. Some of the rumors say he's
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just going to resign from office this next week. Some are specifically saying on Monday. What do I
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believe? I don't really even know at this point. I could see Trudeau resigning in this next week.
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Monday, not quite because we now know there is a liberal special caucus meeting scheduled for
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Wednesday. I don't know why Trudeau would resign from office on Monday and then lead a caucus meeting
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on Wednesday or have somebody lead a caucus meeting on Wednesday. You don't resign and then wait two
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days to give everyone all the details. You just give everyone all the details. So if he was to
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resign, my gut would say that if it was to happen this week, it would be Wednesday, not Monday. But
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the tweet that is setting the internet ablaze right now and kicking off all the rumors is this
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comment by Lawrence Martin, who has worked at the Globe and Mail as a political columnist for a very
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long time, since 2002. And he says, everybody's gearing up for Trudeau's resignation announcement
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expected by Monday. You know, because he says Monday, I do have to give it some credence. That's
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the date that Michelle Rempel-Garner is banking on. She says, Trudeau may announce decision to leave
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before Monday in this article she published on X. And I've read through her article. I generally agree
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with her analysis of it, that this would be the perfect way of also giving Jagmeet Singh and the
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NDP an out to delay the election further. They don't have to vote null confidence because we're
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going to let the liberals either have some more time for their new leader to get settled into office
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or more time for the liberals to hold a leadership election. Either that or Justin Trudeau,
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and this is maybe the theory I lean to a little bit more, is going to basically challenge people
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to take him on at the Wednesday caucus meeting. Because really, who is actually going to vote
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for the Liberal Party just because Freeland is the leader because Anita Anand or Francois-Philippe
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Champagne or Dominic LeBlanc? Mark Carney? Christy Clark? Who cares? I've said it before. All these people
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have beige personalities. They add nothing to the Liberal Party. Justin Trudeau is a terrible
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Prime Minister. Obviously, I think that I'm a conservative. I've never liked him. But at least
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he's a character in a certain sense. He's somebody who's compelling, not always compelling in the right
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way because everyone hates his guts and he's a complete turd in how he treats people. But at least
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you want to talk about him where the worst thing you can be in politics is hated and nobody even cares
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to talk about you. And that is who Chrystia Freeland is. Plus, there is an entire Truanon cult
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of Trudeau cheerleaders online who will turn on the Liberals if Trudeau is removed and especially
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replaced by Freeland because they just put so much in the bank on Freeland being a bad person and
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cheering Trudeau on for getting rid of her. That's something that actually happened. It's absolutely
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wild to witness. Another thing, and again, it's absolutely plausible that Trudeau could resign.
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Let's just highlight some of the reasons why quickly here. Not only is the Quebec Caucus part
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of it, it wasn't true that the Quebec Caucus wants him to resign. Part of the Quebec Caucus wants to
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resign, as in most of them. Obviously, all of them don't want Trudeau to step down because Trudeau is
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one of those Quebec MPs. And a couple other Montreal Liberals and some safe seats are also still backing
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the guy up. But we have this gentleman right here from South London. I believe his name is Peter
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Fragiskatos, who wants Trudeau to step down. That just came out yesterday. And then Kirk Lubomov here
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highlights that Ben Carr, Liberal MP from Winnipeg Centre, also wants, or South Centre, also wants Trudeau
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to step down. These are two really big MPs to be losing, not because they're massive figures,
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although Ben Carr reasonably is a decently well-known MP. The problem is, is that it's showing
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that the drift in terms of Trudeau and the caucus overall is getting further and further away. If it
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was just the Atlantic Caucus, maybe it's just the Atlantic MPs are freaked out and we can ride this
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one out and they'll eventually come back. But when it turns into the Quebec Caucus also wants him out,
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or most of them, and then someone from South London wants him out. Someone from Winnipeg wants
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him out. Someone from Calgary, George Chahal wants him out, which is kind of laughable. George Chahal
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should be out of Parliament himself since he cheated to get in by removing literature from his opponent
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during the campaign. And, you know, but when people all over the country want you out, there's kind of a
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consensus inside the Liberal Party that you're the wrong leader to lead them into the election. But again,
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I go back to point out, there is no right person to lead the Liberals either, because the problem is the
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Liberal Party. Polyev, and just as I have and other people have, pointed this out in the Jordan Peterson
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interview. Well, it's very nice all these Liberals think Trudeau's doing a bad job now and he needs to go,
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but when did Trudeau start doing a bad job? Because if you look at all the Liberal Party propaganda,
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which you could argue still in the control of Katie Telford and Justin Trudeau, it's still
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repping everything that the Liberals have ever done. So when did the policy get bad? Or are they
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going to go on the line that the policy is great? It's just that Trudeau is toxic. Well, why is Trudeau
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toxic? It's almost like the policy is bad, making people's lives worse. And but you guys don't want
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to acknowledge that. So you want to replace Trudeau, but not actually replace Trudeau. Also, they can't
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replace Trudeau. All they can do is shame him into maybe leaving office. But fame isn't really a
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word Trudeau knows. He is a shameless man who is very full of himself and likes basically collecting
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shiny objects the way Jagmeet Singh likes to. He likes collecting titles. He likes knowing that
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he's prime minister. Even if he's doing a bad job, he likes being prime minister more than he likes the
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country. But here's a here's a propaganda video that he released just today on Trudeau's ex account.
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This does not strike me as a guy who's not ramping up to be the leader in the next election. So
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take this for what you would take this for what it is, I guess. But he says more than 1.2 million
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Canadians like Bev have been have gone to the dentist because of the Canadian dental care
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plan. Here's to getting even more people the care they need in 2025.
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Okay, this is such weird fake energy like nice lady. But yeah, everyone qualifies pretty much for the
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universal dental care program because it's universal. I know some people don't. It's a really stupid policy
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because it's going to reduce the supply of dental care in favor of giving some people heavily
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subsidized care, which means dentists don't want to take it because the dental care is not, you know,
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it's not worth it to accept their their public dental insurance because it doesn't pay the dentist
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pretty much anything to do it. Someone even told me it was like a liberal minister who has a connection
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to the private company who is basically, you know, implementing the public insurance scheme.
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So that's, you know, another form of graft, but we're used to it in the liberal government.
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In the past three weeks, 100,000 seniors have gotten dental care.
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By the way, it would actually be very easy to get dental care if Stephen Harper was still the prime minister.
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Guess what? Dental care per month, if you go to Alberta Blue Cross, which I assume there's probably an
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equivalent in every province. But Alberta Blue Cross, you can get dental care. And this is without
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packaging it with any other type of care, car insurance, any other sorts of extra health coverage
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that you can get, because obviously we don't actually have a free health care system. We have
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a public option, which basically tries to cover general necessities, but doesn't really do it fully.
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But in Alberta Blue Cross, it also does like eye stuff and whatnot. But Alberta Blue Cross, I can get dental
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care covered per month with two teeth cleanings a year for 30 bucks a month. That is pricey compared
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to like, you know, a Netflix subscription or whatever. But considering that if you packaged
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it, it'd probably only be costing you 20 bucks a month or whatever. And people used to have way
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more money in their pockets to pay for this sort of thing when HAARP was around. What's the actual
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utility of the public version, which costs way more money to implement because of the bloated bureaucracy.
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And it's probably going to make it less likely that people are going to be able to see their dentist,
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because the dentist is going to be weighed down by a lot of people who are barely compensated at all,
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or basically barely compensating for the labor the dentist is putting into doing like teeth
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cleanings and whatnot. It's a long, complicated thing. It's so but it's so annoying that the liberals
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think this is like a keystone policy people are going to vote for them on. Dark secrets, dark
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secrets, in fact. But yeah, the honestly, though, watching that clip, this is Freeland that charismatic.
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Again, Trudeau's slimy. He's a terrible person. Also, Freeland couldn't interact with a normal
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person like that. Mark Carney couldn't interact with a normal person like that. And speak of the
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devil, Mark Carney, he's also ramping up for a leadership race. So Mark Carney has reportedly
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been going around calling up liberal MPs, basically seeing if they will back him in a leadership race,
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which in my mind is the stupidest person they could possibly make the new leader is Mark Carney.
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You know why? Because nobody knows who he is. People know the name, but nobody has an affection
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for Mark Carney. This is like the liberals because they wanted intellectual credentials because they
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were a very credentialistic type party. They like people with degrees. They've made Michael
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Ignatieff their leader for the 2011 election. And he got stomped on because nobody wants somebody
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who's smarter than them, not literally smarter than them, but thinks they're smarter than you
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to be the prime minister. Obviously, the prime minister should generally be a fairly smart
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individual, a much more, you know, higher than average IQ. But Mark Carney gives you the feeling that
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he enters the room thinking he's smarter than you. And that's the main thought on his head.
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He wrote this article the other day for the Globe and Mail. It was some the year 2024 in review,
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plus a looking forward to 2025. It was the most dull thing you will ever read in your entire life.
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It is full of dumb consultant strategy firm type phrases about how if we unite, the future can be
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brighter than ever type language. And it's like nauseating. This is why people don't like these liberal,
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like elites. I don't even usually like to use the word elite or establishment because they tend to
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be overused to the point where they mean nothing. But he truly is like a Bay Street, Toronto,
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you know, Laurentian elite, where he believes like where he talks in the platitudes. He talks in
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platitudes that he believes that you should value because he tells you that you should value the sorts of
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things that he puts out platitudes about. I think I have a poll here. I want to find it.
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Somebody did an analysis of how the liberals would actually fare if they've swapped out Trudeau for
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different leaders. And it's not looking great. It's in fact, probably some of the worst options
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I've ever seen on the table right now. I'm going to try and I think it's on polling Canada. If I cannot find
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this, I apologize. By the way, guys, make sure to subscribe to the channel. I'm trying to find this
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stuff. I don't think I can. Oh, yes, here we go. Yes, it's from polling Canada. So good job polling
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Canada, even though it's run by an NDP guy. He does a good job. He has this for because people were
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basically being pulled on which leader they like and how well the liberals would do if they implemented
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each of these leaders, installed each of these people. And based on the Angus Reid polling numbers,
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if they brought in Chrystia Freeland, the party would in fact be doing better than they are
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currently with Justin Trudeau. I don't think that would hold up. They would win 52 seats.
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Melanie Jolie, the closest minister I always find to Trudeau, basically gets very Trudeau-like
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results with only 25 seats. Carney gets 14, Dominic LeBlanc 12, Francois-Philippe Champagne 11,
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and Anita Anand 6, and presumably everyone else not on this list would perform somehow even worse
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than Anita Anand. But I'm going to give the pleb credit for bringing this up because it's very funny.
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Know who I nominate to be leader along with the pleb. It's time, guys. We got to do it. It's time for
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it's time for Mark Gerritsen. Mark Gerritsen is the leader we need right now at this time in Canadian
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history. We need somebody who is just not even trying to be appealing to the public. We need
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somebody who reminds me of a sweaty water buffalo, who reminds me of Chank Uyghur from the Young Turks
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in the US. It's Mark Carney's time. As the pleb said, with Trudeau expected to resign in the coming days,
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I'm officially endorsing Mark Gerritsen to become the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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You know what? I do too. Mark Gerritsen, it's time. The Liberals need to go balls to the wall,
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or they might as well just dissolve the party because if we're going to drag this next election
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out any longer, we might as well make it a little bit funny by having Mark Gerritsen play a big role
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in it. Anyways, also he looked really upset the other day when Trudeau shuffled his cabinet a couple
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weeks ago and he wasn't actually given a senior position. That guy looked like just beside himself,
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and I felt bad for him at the time because that guy has tried the hardest in the Liberal caucus to
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be noticed by Trudeau and given some senior role. He's like deputy house leader, which basically means
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nothing. It means when the house leader is tired of lying to the conservatives asking questions,
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they pass the script off to Mark, and then he starts freaking out and waving his arms and trying
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to challenge Kevin Vaughn to fights in the hallway. That's what Mark Gerritsen is. Anyways,
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so that's it for me today, guys. Will Trudeau resign? Could he? I don't even know. Again,
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I'm a conservative. I want the Liberals to fall on their face. At the same time, if I put myself in
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the shoes of the Liberal Party, who is even replacing Trudeau and would it be better? That's really the real
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question. And if I'm Trudeau, at that Wednesday caucus meeting, I would basically throw down the
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gauntlet and say, show me any of you guys could actually do better than me. Show me anyone knows
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who you guys are. Show me that you can beat me in a leadership. If I was Trudeau, I would run in a
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Liberal leadership race. I would declare a new Liberal leadership race, and then I'd run it myself
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just to show I could stomp everyone else. Again, does Trudeau deserve to be Prime Minister? No,
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never has. But if I'm Trudeau and I'm a massive narcissist, I would do it that way. So anyways,
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