Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Resigns as Liberal Party Leader
Trudeau said he will stay on as prime minister until the party elects a new leader.
Justin Trudeau intends to resign as Liberal Party leader.
Trudeau wants liberals to back his replacement because Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s has a dark vision for Canada.
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Trudeau justifying shutting down the government to calm down the temperature and polarization.
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From my Canadian friend: He’s effectively shut down government until March and then will slow rollout a leadership race that will push the election out as long as possible.
That means the election likely won’t happen until October.
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Trudeau told reporters he decided to step down now because it’s become clear that he would not be leader due to internal party conflicts that he cannot be the one to carry the liberal standard into the next election.
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Trudeau said the session of parliament will be prorogued (discontinue the session) until March 26.
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What happens next? According to a friend in Canada, the Liberal Party might appoint an interim prime minister while they hold a leadership vote.
The next election does not have a set date but can be called any time before the end of this government’s four-year term, which would be October.
A no-confidence vote will do it, meaning a majority of House members vote in the House of Commons against the government. That would trigger an election.
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Parliament was supposed to come back into session in a couple weeks, but that has been postponed: Parliament is going to be prorogued until March 24. This will allow time for a truncated leadership race to take Trudeau’s spot as Liberal Party leader and (for a very brief time) Prime Minister. Once a new Liberal Party leader has been chosen, he will step down as leader and PM.
But it is expected that when Parliament returns March 24, it won’t be for very long. Three of the 4 opposition parties will very likely vote together to bring down the Liberal minority government and force an election in late April. Even if the Liberals can somehow keep from being brought down, there has to be an election by the end of October.
LOL …. I have some hot buttery popcorn
fresh out of the popper … anyone want
some ….
so .. is Trudeau gonna fly to Cuba?
Did any of Trudeau open the door to criminal prosecution, 2nd best is there any protentional for civil action?
How many farmers and trucked lives were destroyed?
He needs Ozzy to translate…
One more thing: Trudeau’s hubris has put his party and the country in this situation. The Liberals’ polling has been in the toilet and going down the drain for 2 years now, and if an election were held today they would be left in a position reminiscent of 1993 when the Conservatives went from a majority of seats to 2 after Brian Mulroney stuck around too long and Canadians got utterly fed up with them. If he had left even a year ago it would have given the party time to hold a full leadership race and a new leader a chance to turn the tide. But nope, he had to stick around because, damn the polls and public sentiment he thinks Canada needs him and he is the one to save the country from Pierre Poilierve.
I have zero sympathy for Canadians here. They chose, and kept Trudeau. Yeah, yeah, yeah, WE ‘chose’ Biden (with a little help from the printing press and the USPS) but we’ve dumped him at the first opportunity. The Canadians went back for second helpings of Justin
The NDP (socialists) also kept the Liberals in power longer than they should have been; after the last election they signed an agreement to prop up the Liberals so the Conservatives couldn’t try to form a minority government of their own. Since then, there have been 8 non-confidence votes defeated because the NDP stuck with the Liberals, including 3 or so after the NDP said that the Liberals had reneged on the agreement. But now that Parliament has been prorogued the NDP leader is in line for a $2.2 million pension once he retires from public office.
I thought they went back for thirds, even. Or does it just seem like he’s been in power that long?
They went back for THIRDS.
Parliament systems are a little weird because elections can be called at somewhat random points.
Trudeau was elected THREE times, in 2015, 2019 and 2021.
In fact according to teh internetz, he’s now the 7th longest serving Prime Minister in their history.
Actually the Village Idiot’s party lost the popular vote in 2019 and 2021 but political representation is heavily skewed in favour of the Liberal party. For historical and cultural reasons, that will never be corrected.
Guess he won’t be governor when Trump buys Canada. Oh well.
Canada is very liberal, what impact would absorbing Canada have on America?
One of my children attended college there, over 5 years a condo complex they lived in that had served students, became almost all Muslims.
So, as an ignorant southern North American who doesn’t understand the nuances of parliamentary governance, “who” is actually running Canada for the time being?
He’s staying on as PM (it’s in article)
As mentioned, Justin is still the prime minister, and the members of parliament who are in charge of cabinet departments are still running them. But parliament itself is shut down, so no legislation can get passed, even stuff that is considered to be pretty important. A rough analogy is how the US government and state governments keep running even when Congress or the legislature are out of session: there’s just no legislating going on.
The Stinky One is Done
Did he say “You won’t have Justine to kick around any more!”?
About time. Doonesbury hasn’t been funny in decades.
The purchase of Canada will be referred to as Trudeau’s kudos.
Now we can’t say that he has never done anything good for Canada. Ditto for Kamala and her spectacular defeat and subsequent damage to the DNC.
Oh, well. There’s always a career doing blackface and minstrelsy, for this vile twit.
Trudeau will be laughing all the way to the bank, like narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama. He wants some of that loot from the private sector.
A government paycheck doesn’t go far to substantially increase your net worth (unless you possess the racketeering skills of crime boss, Biden).
More like little prick.
Not sure this is that good a thing really. His party probably threw a fit that he wanted to work with Trump.
Trudeau said his only regret was that he didn’t resign sooner so that he could have campaigned to Kamala Harris.
…for Kamala Harris.
As people who owned a summer home in Canada for fifteen years, we sold and departed Canada’s smallest Province three years ago.
Our neighbours and friends in our little fishing village are the finest of people, but many in the village were gaga over Truedope and crazy liberal. Even some of our friends who called themselves “Conservatives” still had liberal ideas and believed everything Canada Broadcasting spewed out.
Many Americans don’t realize how greedy a socialistic country is, and those governments CONSTANTLY have its’ hands in the pockets of the people. Americans are amazingly overtaxed, but Canada takes it to a higher level and right through the stratosphere.
Now, even the liberals have had it with Justine and he is irreparably ruined politically. About time!
What will happen with the orders banning semi auto rifles in Canada?
Will the next prime minister reverse them?
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