Western Standard - March 11, 2026


The Political Cost of the Trudeau Era

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Justin Trudeau
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

205.73

Word count

213

Sentence count

8

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Toxicity

1

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Justin Trudeau was one of the worst prime ministers in Canadian history. No politician has ever managed to undercut Canadian pride and identity more than Justin Trudeau did. I tell you when we ve got this country where everybody s expected to look at their feet and be ashamed of themselves and not show pride in anything, it s not so hard to pull them away and say, well, why don t we vote to form another one? Is it?

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00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau was one of the worst politicians, worst prime ministers in Canadian history by far.
00:00:05.760 No politician has ever managed to undercut Canadian pride and identity more than Justin Trudeau did. 0.95
00:00:13.260 I mean, when he started out with his fluffy vacuous, and that was the problem, Canada voted for hair, not for brains.
00:00:20.900 And they kept him in for 10 years, and it showed.
00:00:23.560 So you wouldn't hear Justin talking about history. He'd never read a history book in his life. He read comic books.
00:00:27.600 and he talked about this post-national state what a beautiful country where we aren't uh you know
00:00:33.140 we aren't Canadian we're everything else and what do you think is happening we have ethnic
00:00:37.240 we have ethnic clashes in the streets we have protests and yes we have independence movements
00:00:42.520 springing up across this country and yeah I was an independent supporter prior to Justin Trudeau
00:00:46.900 and he made my work a heck of a lot easier for me I tell you when we've got this country where
00:00:52.220 everybody's expected to look at their feet and be ashamed of themselves and not show pride in
00:00:57.600 anything, it's not so hard to pull them away and say, well, why don't we vote to form another one,
00:01:01.880 is it?