00:04:55.160And I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians.
00:05:00.600And the fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, Parliament has been paralyzed for months after what has been the longest session of a minority Parliament in Canadian history.
00:05:18.120That's why this morning, I advised the Governor-General that we need a new session of Parliament.
00:05:25.000She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24th.
00:05:33.700Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future.
00:05:43.040At the course of my career, any success I have personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement.
00:05:51.000encouragement so last night over dinner i told my kids about the decision that i'm sharing with you
00:05:58.200today i intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects its next leader
00:06:10.040through a robust nationwide competitive process last night i asked the president
00:06:16.920the Liberal Party to begin that process. This country deserves a real choice in the next election
00:06:25.080and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best
00:06:33.240option in that election. Mes chers amis, comme vous savez, je suis un fighter. Dans mon fort
00:06:41.880all right all right so this means uh that the house will not be returning on january 27th
00:07:04.840obviously all committees because of prerogament or prorogation all committees will be shut down
00:07:11.400So the January 7th committee will not be able to meet and discuss the vote of non-confidence.
00:07:20.280This also means the Liberal Party is going to be holding a, I guess, an abbreviated leadership.
00:07:26.860And we don't know who the front runners are yet, but we can imagine it's Mark Carney, Christia Freeland, maybe Melanie Jolie, Francois Philippe Champagne.
00:07:38.380Those are the only four I can think of right now.
00:07:41.400And then they come back on March 24th.
00:07:43.640They're going to have to do a speech from the throne where they will be defeated by a vote of confidence.
00:07:48.440So expect an election sometime at the end of April.
00:07:52.140That's what I say right now, although I'm maybe talking out of my ass because I haven't got all the details.
00:07:59.580But he's still speaking French. So let's get back here.
00:08:11.400Yesterday, I asked the president of the party to start the necessary steps.
00:08:18.400The country deserves a clear and real choice during the next elections.
00:08:25.400It is clear to me that if I have to focus on internal battles, I can't be the best option during these elections.
00:08:35.400The Liberal Party is an important institution in the history of our great country and our democracy.
00:08:44.400A new Prime Minister and Chief of the Party will bring the values and ideas of the Liberal Party in the next election.
00:08:53.400I hope to see the progress of this process in the months to come.
00:08:59.400So this is what Mulroney did when he stepped down in 93.
00:09:12.580You stay on, generally speaking, until they elect a new leader.
00:09:16.180Your party elects a new leader. That's nothing new.
00:09:21.260The Liberal Party of Canada is an important institution
00:09:24.820in the history of our great country and democracy.
00:09:27.560A new Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party will carry its values and ideals into that next election.
00:09:37.360I'm excited to see the process unfold in the months ahead.
00:09:43.080We were elected for the third time in 2021 to strengthen the economy post-pandemic.
00:19:37.080He's, I guess it's not a lie if you believe it, but it's truly pathetic.
00:19:45.360And now we've got a lot of cleaning up to do because the Liberals will be toast in two and a half months.
00:20:15.360Alors, j'aimerais savoir pourquoi ce qui était mauvais pour les conservateurs de Stephen Harper devrait être bon pour les libéraux de Justin Trudeau.
00:20:23.580The General Governor, in 2008, had correctly concluded that the House just came to give their trust in a formal way to Mr. Harper's government.
00:20:42.580Even though a letter signed, which was a political document, the vote of the chamber counts.
00:20:55.580However, before we stop working at the chamber for the Fêtes, we gained three votes of non-confidence.
00:21:10.580And we will have to test the trust of the chamber since March
00:21:20.580to pass the necessary elements to make the government work.
00:21:28.580In 2008, the Governor-General correctly concluded that
00:21:35.580Because the very last times in the previous weeks that the confidence of the House had been tested, it had passed that confidence test, Stephen Harper continued to have the confidence of the House.
00:21:55.400And it actually would bear out because as soon as they came back from the prorogation, Stephen Harper won a confidence vote once again.
00:22:02.940So a political document or political speeches doesn't carry the kind of weight that winning a confidence vote means.
00:22:14.300But this prorogation will take us only into March, and there will be confidence votes in March in the passing of supply
00:22:25.560that will allow Parliament to weigh in on confidence
00:23:50.300candidate who won which was heather steffensen became the premier until the end of the conservative
00:23:55.260term a couple of years ago or a year and a half ago so she was an unelected premier
00:24:03.460just like this next prime minister whoever it is will be for a period of probably a month
00:24:11.020a month and a half tops so whoever is running for that job knows this which means i'm thinking that
00:24:20.300there's going to be only two candidates and mark carney won't
00:24:25.180he knows he's going to be annihilated anybody who steps into that void knows they're going to be
00:24:30.780annihilated moment complex and these two elements will represent the reset necessary for the parliament
00:24:46.620the parliamentary press gallery and anyone who's been watching politics closely over the past
00:24:55.740months will know that parliament has been entirely seized by obstruction obstruction you all you
00:25:06.300needed to do was reveal a total lack of productivity the documents over the past few months that you
00:25:11.860were ordered to reveal the longest serving minority government in history and it's time
00:25:17.760for a reset it's time for the temperature to come down for the people to have a fresh start
00:25:25.780in parliament to be able to navigate through these complex times both domestically and
00:25:32.380internationally and the reset that we have is actually two parts one is the prorogation
00:25:39.840But the other part is recognizing that removing me from the equation as the leader who will fight the next election for the Liberal Party should also decrease the level of polarization that we're seeing right now in the House and in Canadian politics and allow people to actually focus on serving Canadians in this House.
00:26:03.960So they haven't been then, Justin. That's what you're saying. They haven't been serving Canadians.
00:26:08.000Good morning, Prime Minister. Stephanie Taylor with the National Post.
00:26:12.420Given, as you just said, there's going to be confidence votes in March, opposition parties have said they are prepared to bring down your government.
00:26:18.860What kind of chances do you think you are leaving to your successor, given that there will only be mere weeks for them to introduce themselves to Canadians before heading into an election, potentially?
00:26:28.780I have a tremendous amount of confidence in both Canadians and in parliamentarians' interest in serving Canadians in the right way.
00:26:40.920He knows they're going to be decimated. I can't believe he can keep a straight face here.
00:26:44.820a minority government right now and there hasn't been an active leadership in a minority government
00:26:51.220in more than 50 years in this country and there is always going to be the challenge of having a
00:26:59.780leadership race while a parliament would face confidence votes uh in in uh in the course of
00:27:08.580of delivering supply to the government so this is something that we're going to navigate through
00:27:16.580but i truly feel that removing the contention around my own continued leadership
00:27:26.900is an opportunity to bring the temperature down have a government that will focus on the complex
00:27:34.580issues that are coming forward in the coming months while the party gets to have a full
00:27:43.140national process that brings in people from right across the country and makes a determination about
00:27:51.700the best person to carry the progressive liberal standard into the next election can you clarify
00:28:00.420whether ministers who would like to campaign for your job will have to step out of cabinet and how
00:28:06.900can the liberal government be in a position to protect canadian businesses and canadians from
00:28:12.980the threat of tariffs from incoming president donald trump when members of the government
00:28:17.620are going to be focused on who's going to be taking your job good question um the government
00:28:22.980will still and the cabinet will still be very much focused on doing the job that canadians
00:28:28.900elected us to do in 2021 which is fight for their interests stand up for their well-being
00:28:36.420and make sure that they are good and that canadians are are protected and strong
00:28:45.460there will be a leadership process and the rules will unfold over the coming weeks but i can assure
00:28:51.620you that the tools and the need to stand up for Canadians, to protect Canadians in their
00:29:00.360interests and continue to fight for the economy, is something that everyone in this government
00:35:28.420A lot of people are making reference to the World Economic Forum here.
00:35:36.780Kevin O'Leary, Jeff, that's a great idea.
00:35:38.960Maybe Kevin O'Leary can get the ear of Donald Trump and say, you know, Mr. President, I mean, we're kind of going through a hard time in Canada right now with this election.
00:35:49.760And once we get a guy in there, but please hold off on the tariffs until, who knows?
00:35:54.740I mean, maybe O'Leary can make that pitch successfully.
00:36:06.280We're going to find out who all of the candidates are as we move forward.
00:36:10.340I don't think there's going to be time for any liberal to hold off on deciding whether or not they're going to be running for this job, right?
00:36:17.400It's not like, well, we're going to be waiting around for Seamus O'Regan to make his decision.
00:36:21.780No, no, this is going to have to be very, very soon.
00:36:24.620This is going to be, like I say, a very short campaign.
00:36:30.100But it's also a chance for the liberals to raise money.
00:36:33.040apparently we're hearing uh well they have been raising money they're not poor or anything going
00:36:38.900into an election versus the conservatives and the conservatives are by far and away
00:36:42.340the number one raisers of money across the country uh they would have been hampered by the fact that
00:36:50.020the conservatives could outspend them probably two to one so this will be an opportunity for the
00:36:56.340liberals to raise money as well for an election campaign and the same for the ndp you know they're
00:37:00.700going to take this time to run Jagmeet Singh all across the country and raise money. And,
00:37:07.760you know, the other thing that people are asking me here in comments is, will Jagmeet Singh get
00:37:15.080his pension? Well, if Parliament is prorogued, he's supposed to be an MP until February 25th.
00:37:24.460That's his six-year anniversary, and that means that he gets his pension. So just because
00:37:30.560parliament is prorogued doesn't mean he's not an mp so yes jagmeet will get his pension and if
00:37:38.680that's the reason you think the ndp have been holding off on pulling the pin on these liberals
00:37:42.980then he will in fact be voting non-confidence on march 24th i think it's more than that
00:37:50.900i think that singh has agreed with trudeau at every step and wanted him to go even further
00:37:58.400If you haven't watched the Pierre Polyev-Jordan Peterson interview, I rewatched the last part of that the other day, and there's some interesting things that they discuss, including the relationship between Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau.
00:38:16.200And, you know, they're both young global leaders. Neither one of them, Peterson nor Polyev, goes as far as to bring in the World Economic Forum.
00:38:23.640They do talk about the Marxist philosophy they both hold, Singh and Trudeau, but they
00:38:31.300don't equate it with the World Economic Forum.
00:38:33.400They don't equate it with stakeholder capitalism or any of the other agencies that you and
00:41:40.440And remember, they're both Marxist parties.
00:41:42.680When you look at the polling, a lot of people don't look at it this way, but you see the
00:41:48.600conservatives at 45%, let's say, and the PPC at one or two points.
00:41:53.860So let's put that together for a conservative vote of 47% in this country, and then you
00:42:02.200put the liberals and the NDP and the Greens together, and you're talking about almost
00:42:11.540the same and then the bloc is the rest and the bloc doesn't count because they don't run as
00:42:17.420as a left party or a right party on the spectrum they run as a separatist party only in quebec so
00:42:23.980you can't include them and they get the other six or seven percent of the vote so this means the
00:42:30.260zeitgeist of our country is heavily divided and almost exactly even 47 47 47 46 conservative
00:42:38.900minded people and and when i talk about conservative minded people there's a lot of
00:42:43.040people who are progressive conservatives they're not social conservatives they're fiscal conservatives
00:42:49.040but social liberals red tories is their note and those people obviously haven't thought through
00:42:56.300all of the policies of the left at least not very much and the only reason that they're voting
00:43:02.720conservative is to get rid of Trudeau or the liberals in general. So we've got a lot of,
00:43:08.400I don't like to use this word, but I'll say it anyway, a lot of educating to do
00:43:13.540when it comes to other conservatives in this country, not as conservative as you may be or
00:43:21.420I might be. And that's, again, you know, when you say I'm conservative, that's not anything to be
00:43:26.400ashamed of. And that's the first thing that the far left will do. They'll try to shame you for
00:43:33.100being a conservative. There's nothing wrong with being a conservative. It means to conserve. And
00:43:37.700in this case, we're talking about conserving our country and our way of life before all of these
00:43:45.320progressives can take it over and change it into what they envision. And I don't even think there
00:43:49.680really is a vision from them anyhow. Anyway, that's a whole other conversation to have.
00:43:56.400And Justin Trudeau, in case you're just joining now, has resigned as Prime Minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:44:06.280His resignation will take effect when the Liberals choose a new leader.
00:44:10.840And the House is prorogued until March 24th.
00:44:13.940More coming up on Shadow at Night livestream tonight at 8 o'clock central.
00:44:18.140Thank you for tuning in to this special broadcast.