Western Standard - Under Trudeau, Canada's Global Image Continues to Deteriorate

00:00:00.000 The Liberal Party of Canada, they are in dire straits. I mean, the loss of Toronto St. Paul's

00:00:06.220 in a by-election, it's more than just a setback for the party. It's a catastrophe.

00:00:11.220 I mean, Toronto St. Paul's isn't a bellwether seat that you can look at that might swing either way

00:00:16.060 in the political winds. It was one of the safest Liberal seats in all of Canada. It's been in their

00:00:21.960 possession for more than 30 years, almost 35. So if Liberal MPs weren't already in a panic before

00:00:29.360 with their dropping support numbers, they certainly are now, or they're completely deaf and blind,

00:00:34.920 which is possible with them. I mean, if Toronto St. Paul's can fall to the Conservative Party of

00:00:38.920 Canada, any seat can. No Liberal seat is safe. Justin Trudeau, he's stubbornly clinging to the

00:00:46.160 party leadership anyways, though, despite party support obviously collapsing across Canada and

00:00:50.460 has been doing so for over a year now and continuing to decline. He's vacuously continuing to pretend that

00:00:57.340 sunny ways are still going on and his party's electoral viability is crumbling all around him.

00:01:03.860 I mean, we've had scandal after scandal just pummeling the Liberals and Trudeau just shrugs

00:01:08.220 them off. He's convinced himself he can overcome this dearth in electoral support and turn things

00:01:13.420 around. Now, while demands from citizens for Trudeau's resignation have been going for a long

00:01:18.280 time and they're increasing in volume, the culture of submissiveness within the Liberal caucus has kept any

00:01:23.360 internal critique muted. With every Liberal MP now fearing for their political lives, cracks in the

00:01:30.240 united front of the party support for Trudeau are about to break wide open, I think. Party loyalty,

00:01:34.440 it's going to be tossed to the curb as Liberal MPs try to salvage at least their own jobs.

00:01:39.680 Will that be enough, though? Will Trudeau finally succumb to pressure and resign? I mean, it's hard to say.

00:01:45.800 The pressures of Trudeau's position, I mean, they've been clearly getting to him. He's always been weird,

00:01:50.140 but he's been increasingly bizarre and acting out at events lately. He doesn't appear mentally stable

00:01:55.700 and he could be delusional enough that he's convinced himself that he can still pull his

00:01:59.480 party out of this ditch. There's certainly signs he has a messiah complex and, you know, such a

00:02:03.640 disorder can shield a person from reality. Look, the knives are sure to come out and if Trudeau keeps

00:02:08.900 fighting against the pressures to resign, the Liberals might tear themselves to shreds. And,

00:02:13.420 you know, that appeal, that scenario holds some appeal for us, but you got to remember it comes at a

00:02:18.080 cost. I mean, some people are saying it's best that Trudeau remains at the helm because it'll put the

00:02:23.700 Liberals into the electoral doldrums for years, maybe a couple of electoral cycles even. But the problem is

00:02:29.220 the cost of his continued tenure is too high. He's not harmless while he sits in there. So from a partisan

00:02:35.020 perspective, Trudeau, yes, he's Pierre Pagliau's best friend. From a citizen's perspective, though, Trudeau's

00:02:40.360 continued time as Prime Minister is a disaster. With one or two more years in power, remember, he could stretch it

00:02:46.040 up to 2026 according to the Constitution. Trudeau could really grind our economy fully into the

00:02:51.380 ground. Affordability, productivity, and the GDP per capita are already in the toilet, but they can

00:02:56.200 still get worse. Under Trudeau's continued guidance, it will. It surely will. Canada's international

00:03:02.200 reputation, I mean, again, we're turning into a laughingstock and it's going to continue to slide

00:03:06.180 under Trudeau's incompetent leadership. He needs to be removed and as soon as possible for the sake of

00:03:12.520 the nation. Look, the Liberals are already crushed enough. They won't be able to recover for an

00:03:17.180 electoral cycle or two anyway. The party's going to need to rebuild and it's going to take them time.

00:03:22.140 I mean, there'll be no shortage of applicants for Trudeau's job whenever the heck he does resign.

00:03:26.720 But the most qualified for that role are probably going to stay on the sidelines actually for a while.

00:03:30.720 The next Liberal leader is going to be a placeholder who's never going to see beyond being an opposition

00:03:34.960 leader. I mean, remember last time the Liberals burned through three leaders after

00:03:38.940 Chrétien's departure before they managed to win another election. It was Ignatieff, Dion, and Martin.

00:03:45.100 So not many serious contenders are going to want to finish their political careers as the Kim 0.99

00:03:49.400 Campbell of the Liberal Party. The loss of St. Paul's is cause for celebration among common-sense

00:03:54.840 Canadians. I mean, we're exhausted by the terrible governance under Trudeau. The chances the Liberals

00:03:59.720 surviving the next general election, no matter who's leading them, are slim to none. If Trudeau steps down,

00:04:05.220 some Liberal seats could be salvaged, though, even if the election's lost. The clock is ticking,

00:04:09.960 though. Even if Trudeau resigns today, it'll likely take it until the new year for a new leader to be

00:04:15.820 selected, and that leaves the Liberals with less than a year to try and turn things around before

00:04:19.740 at least the scheduled election date. Until Trudeau steps out of the role of Prime Minister, though,

00:04:24.760 nobody should be breaking out the champagne flutes. He's an unstable and desperate man who's still

00:04:29.440 capable of wreaking havoc on the nation. Trudeau has to go, and the sooner the better.

00:04:35.300 That's kind of what's got me going today, guys. Like I said, I've seen a lot of online discussion

00:04:38.860 about it. You know, people have been talking about that, saying that, again, you know, we got to keep

00:04:43.840 him in there. We want to have the joy of seeing him crushed in an election. We want to see him,

00:04:49.400 you know, turn into another Kim Campbell sort of situation. We want to see the Liberals reduced down

00:04:53.740 to two seats. And again, I know the partisan in me, the person who can't stand the Trudeau Liberals in me

00:05:00.160 wants to see that too. But we've got to look at the damage if that dingbat stays at the helm of 0.92

00:05:06.240 this country that much longer. As I said, internationally, we are a laughingstock. Our

00:05:11.400 country is not trusted. The Trudeau government is hiding traitors amongst their midst. They're 0.75

00:05:16.540 taxing us into oblivion, and they're leading this country into the economic toilet. Is it worth

00:05:23.460 garnering an extra 10, 15, 20 conservative seats when there was going to be a majority anyways?

00:05:30.840 You know, just keeping Trudeau in just to knock it down by that much is not worth it. The cost is

00:05:36.360 too high. The thing is, the only ones who can pull him out, though, the only ones are his fellow

00:05:42.180 Liberals. So what's it going to take? How bad is it going to have to get? I got to think a lot of them,

00:05:47.520 I mean, I know there's, believe it or not, I will concede, there are some good people in that

00:05:52.120 caucus. There really are. I mean, people, most of them, Liberal, any of them, go into politics with

00:05:56.960 what they feel are the best interests of the country in mind. I know some people don't believe

00:06:00.460 that, but it's true. Often they morph into something else later on. But there are some

00:06:04.620 good Liberals. There are some principled Liberals. They've been biting their tongues for a long time.

00:06:09.840 And if only to save their own butts, they've got to speak up. They've got to take that clown out of 0.99

00:06:16.320 the leadership of their party for their own sake, for their party's sake, and most of all, 0.97

00:06:22.120 for Canada's sake. Are they going to do it? I can only think so. I mean, if I was, I don't have a

00:06:29.580 political membership anymore. It allows me to be more critical and in all directions with things.

00:06:33.860 And if I was, though, still in a party, I spent a lot of time in parties and everything, and my

00:06:38.660 leader was that off the rails, my leader was sending us that far into the toilet, I would be

00:06:43.660 critical of that leader. I'd be looking to move that leader along. I mean, you have to if you want a

00:06:49.120 future for your movement. But these Liberals just seem to be determined to float on the Titanic

00:06:56.700 until it hits the iceberg. We'll see what happens.

Western Standard - June 27, 2024

Under Trudeau, Canada's Global Image Continues to Deteriorate

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