Western Standard - Trudeau must be removed

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, 1.00

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. 0.99

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? 0.97

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. 0.87

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.

Western Standard - December 19, 2024

Trudeau must be removed

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