Western Standard - December 19, 2024


Trudeau must be removed


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

211.6597

Word Count

996

Sentence Count

60

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Justin Trudeau fired his Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and now he needs a new finance minister, but who's coming in to replace her? And how will he fill the role if he doesn t have a finance minister of his own?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I've got to talk about Trudeau.
00:00:03.140 There's no avoiding that, is there?
00:00:05.680 So as the information trickles out to the public
00:00:08.440 in the latest Trudeau debacle, there's so many,
00:00:11.380 and it's becoming evident how unhinged and desperate
00:00:14.580 the Prime Minister's becoming.
00:00:16.340 Every move made by Trudeau in the last year,
00:00:18.740 I mean, everything he's tried
00:00:19.720 has just made him sink more deeply in the polls.
00:00:21.980 It just seems impossible for the Liberals
00:00:23.740 to maintain even a minority government
00:00:25.800 if they were gonna go into an election,
00:00:27.060 much less, you know, regain a majority.
00:00:28.460 And it appears that Trudeau's gotten to the point
00:00:30.900 of fabricating a scenario in his mind
00:00:32.540 where Mark Carney would join his team
00:00:34.400 as Finance Minister, and his presence alone
00:00:36.260 would turn around the fortunes of the party.
00:00:38.340 Unfortunately for Trudeau, Carney hasn't signed on
00:00:41.060 with his fantasy, and when Trudeau fired
00:00:43.280 Chrystia Freeland to make room for Carney,
00:00:45.860 things really blew up.
00:00:47.500 And the heartless arrogance and vanity
00:00:49.040 on the part of Trudeau was breathtaking
00:00:50.380 in his treatment of former Finance Minister
00:00:52.800 Chrystia Freeland.
00:00:53.900 I mean, love or hate Freeland,
00:00:54.760 and I'm not a big fan of hers,
00:00:55.800 but still, it's undeniable.
00:00:56.580 She's proven herself a loyal member of Trudeau's team.
00:01:00.320 We assume she earned a modicum of respect
00:01:02.800 from the Prime Minister.
00:01:04.560 Even when Trudeau proposed the most absurd policies,
00:01:07.460 Freeland would stand behind him
00:01:09.040 with her head bobbling in a frenetic way of support,
00:01:11.760 wired as usual.
00:01:13.220 She offered modest resistance
00:01:14.940 to some of Trudeau's spending increases,
00:01:16.500 but still, she would back down,
00:01:18.200 and until the federal budget,
00:01:19.860 the deficit had ballooned to a staggering $62 billion.
00:01:22.880 Freeland was still willing
00:01:25.440 to stand in the House of Commons
00:01:26.760 and deliver that terrible budget update.
00:01:28.880 She would take one more for the team,
00:01:30.340 yet again.
00:01:31.160 That is, until Trudeau fired her.
00:01:33.220 Trudeau didn't even have the grace
00:01:34.340 to speak to her face-to-face
00:01:35.960 when he turfed her from her role,
00:01:37.360 although they were in the same city.
00:01:38.580 He did it through a Zoom meeting.
00:01:40.180 Cowardice right to the end.
00:01:41.460 It's surprising he didn't do it
00:01:42.460 through a text message.
00:01:44.000 Trudeau didn't just fire Freeland, though.
00:01:45.980 He expected her to deliver
00:01:47.400 that humiliating budget update
00:01:48.960 as her final act in the role.
00:01:50.500 He threw Freeland under the bus
00:01:52.480 and left her with a weekend to stew over it.
00:01:55.500 That's where Trudeau went beyond
00:01:57.000 being just heartless
00:01:57.780 and into where he went into idiocy.
00:02:00.340 He's so full of himself,
00:02:01.800 it never occurred to him
00:02:02.940 that Freeland had a breaking point.
00:02:05.280 He felt he could treat her with contempt
00:02:06.720 and cast her aside,
00:02:07.760 and she would simply take it on the chin
00:02:09.120 due to her unquestioning adoration of him.
00:02:11.740 Instead, Trudeau had unwittingly
00:02:13.280 pushed Freeland over the edge.
00:02:14.460 Who knows when Freeland decided to push back.
00:02:16.680 Maybe it was during the Zoom call,
00:02:17.880 or maybe it was over the weekend
00:02:18.820 when she had time to think about it.
00:02:20.340 The open letter she crafted
00:02:21.540 in her resignation, though,
00:02:22.540 was designed in time
00:02:23.460 to inflict maximum damage
00:02:25.180 to Trudeau's leadership,
00:02:26.060 and it worked.
00:02:27.260 Freedom posted the resignation letter
00:02:29.420 just hours before she was supposed
00:02:30.660 to deliver that turd
00:02:31.640 of a financial update,
00:02:32.800 leaving Trudeau in shock
00:02:33.880 and causing a full political storm.
00:02:36.180 She was also scathing of Trudeau
00:02:37.580 on the way out.
00:02:38.200 The shallowness of Trudeau's plan, though,
00:02:40.240 was quickly exposed
00:02:41.600 when it was realized
00:02:42.700 he didn't even have a person
00:02:43.620 to replace Freeland.
00:02:44.760 Freeland.
00:02:45.920 Yeah, freedom's not in his vocabulary.
00:02:47.180 He had to go through multiple MPs
00:02:49.100 before finding a member loyal enough
00:02:50.420 or foolish enough
00:02:51.220 to take on the role.
00:02:52.120 That person's Dominic LeBlanc,
00:02:53.860 who was rushed into office
00:02:55.520 and has awkwardly assumed the role.
00:02:57.340 So what happened to Carney?
00:02:59.100 I mean, at first,
00:02:59.700 I kind of thought,
00:03:00.380 well, Carney was probably set
00:03:01.580 to assume the role.
00:03:03.040 The following Wednesday,
00:03:04.140 but it backed away
00:03:04.800 when seeing how everything
00:03:05.920 turned into a mess.
00:03:06.720 Now, no, it's being leaked
00:03:07.640 that Carney wasn't even consulted.
00:03:09.320 He didn't commit to taking that role,
00:03:10.800 even though Trudeau told Freeland
00:03:12.120 that he was going to.
00:03:13.640 The scenario was apparently
00:03:14.860 a creation of Trudeau's imagination.
00:03:17.580 Carney, he couldn't turn
00:03:18.780 the Liberal Party around,
00:03:20.140 whether he's finance minister
00:03:21.200 or leader anyways.
00:03:22.180 The rot's gotten too deep for that.
00:03:23.920 Whatever Carney might be,
00:03:24.900 he's not a fool.
00:03:25.740 Why on earth would he give up
00:03:26.640 a respected career
00:03:27.420 to jump on with Trudeau's
00:03:28.640 crippled administration?
00:03:29.880 Who would want to be handed
00:03:30.840 the poison chalice
00:03:31.880 of leading the Liberals
00:03:32.720 after Trudeau?
00:03:33.700 The next leader of the Liberals
00:03:35.480 is more likely to see
00:03:36.260 electoral fate akin to that
00:03:37.420 of Kim Campbell
00:03:38.200 rather than the still humiliating
00:03:40.380 electoral loss
00:03:40.980 of Michael Ignatieff.
00:03:41.900 The party's going to be
00:03:42.780 in the political wilderness
00:03:43.680 for at least an electoral cycle.
00:03:45.660 With his caucus
00:03:46.240 finally going into rebellion
00:03:47.660 somewhat,
00:03:48.120 and even the Toronto Star
00:03:49.120 calling for Trudeau's resignation,
00:03:50.560 the Prime Minister's office
00:03:51.380 suddenly cancelled
00:03:52.320 all its year-end interviews.
00:03:53.880 It was assumed
00:03:54.280 he'd finally read the writing
00:03:55.260 on the wall,
00:03:55.800 or somebody read it for him,
00:03:56.840 perhaps.
00:03:58.160 Alas, though,
00:03:58.740 it isn't to be.
00:03:59.700 Trudeau arrived at the
00:04:00.420 annual Christmas party
00:04:02.060 for the Liberals,
00:04:02.720 full of smiles,
00:04:03.440 and delivered a speech
00:04:04.120 acting as if nothing had happened.
00:04:05.840 Members in attendance
00:04:06.480 were mortified
00:04:07.200 with Trudeau's clear
00:04:07.820 disconnect with reality.
00:04:09.060 Meanwhile,
00:04:09.340 Christia Freeland showed up
00:04:10.800 and garnered a hero's welcome
00:04:12.340 at the event
00:04:12.840 in what might be
00:04:13.420 the unofficial beginning
00:04:14.620 of a leadership bid.
00:04:15.820 The only person
00:04:16.720 who doesn't seem to understand
00:04:17.700 Trudeau's finish
00:04:18.220 is Trudeau.
00:04:19.680 Unfortunately,
00:04:20.220 the mechanisms
00:04:20.780 to remove an unwilling
00:04:21.760 Prime Minister
00:04:22.320 are pretty limited
00:04:22.920 in Canada's system.
00:04:23.800 The Liberal Caucus
00:04:24.460 can force the issue,
00:04:25.940 but they've got to
00:04:26.340 find some balls, guys.
00:04:27.800 And they haven't shown it yet.
00:04:29.260 It's becoming clearer
00:04:30.000 by the day, though,
00:04:30.700 that Trudeau won't leave
00:04:31.520 until a boot
00:04:32.180 is pushed firmly
00:04:33.200 on his butt.
00:04:34.840 His competence
00:04:35.660 has always been questionable,
00:04:36.740 but now it's his sanity.
00:04:38.860 He must be removed
00:04:39.880 for the sake of Canada.
00:04:41.360 It's way overdue.