Your middle of the week barn-storming session ...
Justin Trudeau hasn't resigned.
He may never.
He says that he intends to, which means nothing, really.
This is a stall tactic. He is biding his time while still wasting money. Either the Canadian electorate will forget his rotten legacy or his lacklustre replacement will forge ahead with the same ruinous policies that made Justin so appalling:
**Justin Trudeau ducks his last fight
— Sean Speer (@Sean_Speer) January 8, 2025
Trudeau leaves office as he has lived his life: careless of the consequences for others. A spoiled rich kid, a narcissist, and a foolish dreamer, he couldn’t even exit without making a new mess for his party to clean up. As I write this, the… https://t.co/BpPIl1D0Ur
Justin Trudeau’s resignation marks the end of one of the most polarizing eras in Canadian politics. He ascended to power with promises of “sunny ways,” but his leadership has left Canadians angrier, more divided, and less confident in our institutions.
Trudeau consistently pitted Canadians against one another, exploiting fault lines for political gain during a time when disinformation by foreign bad actors was also running rampant. His willingness to import American-style culture wars into Canada fanned the flames of identity politics and dismissed dissent as unacceptable. Trudeau’s embrace of this approach polarized Canadians and alienated large swaths of the electorate who felt condescended to or dismissed. The new hyper-partisanship he ushered in will haunt Canada and take decades to untangle.
Among Canada’s allies, there will be little wistful nostalgia for Trudeau. His disastrous India trip made him appear deeply unserious to a country our government has since made credible allegations against regarding foreign interference. His alienation of key partners like the United States and Israel diminished Canada’s reputation. And his utter neglect for our military has put us in a perilous position as the tides of global order turn and we enter a period of heightened geopolitical risk.
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On Jan. 6, however, Trudeau announced he will step down and allow for a leadership race within the Liberal party. Parliament is prorogued until March 24.
There will be no January non-confidence vote. Canadians will not get the satisfaction of an election at the (likely) nadir of the Liberal party’s popularity. Or the satisfaction of voting Trudeau out of office.
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Over his nine-year reign as Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau has championed causes that directly contradict fundamental Catholic teachings with respect to human life and undertaken other actions that have harmed the local Church.
His long run of damaging policies appears to be coming to an end, however. With polls showing his Liberal Party facing almost-unsurmountable headwinds in the upcoming election, the Catholic leader announced his resignation as party leader on Monday, leaving a legacy marked by this unmistakable opposition to Catholic teaching and priorities. Most notably, his policies and advocacy for the advancement of abortion and euthanasia rights have made Canada a global leader in the culture of death. Additionally, his role in perpetuating Canada’s “mass graves” narrative, involving unfounded claims that hundreds of Indigenous children had been buried covertly at Catholic residential schools, resulted in a rise in Catholic hate crimes and a spate of church burnings.
Courts stacked with Liberal/liberal judges will not ever do the right thing:
Lawyers for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms yesterday challenged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament. The Justice Centre in a Federal Court application said suspending parliamentary business for a Liberal Party leadership contest was “incorrect, unreasonable or both.”
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The statement of claim filed by lawyer Rocco Galati challenged the firing or suspension of hundreds of Ontario health-care workers who refused to get vaccinated against the virus.
Not even toady Dominic LeBlanc wants to lose:
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has officially ruled himself out of the race to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In the wake of Trudeau’s announcement Monday that he intends to resign as prime minister, LeBlanc had been encouraged to run by Liberal MPs Mark Gerretsen and Joël Lightbound, who declared in separate media interviews that they would be favourable to LeBlanc’s candidacy.
Opposition House Leader Andrew Scheer expects traitors to out themselves:
Cabinet must release names of parliamentarians suspected of acting for foreign embassies prior to any Liberal Party leadership contest or general election, Opposition House Leader Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle) said yesterday. The identities of suspects were detailed in a confidential 2024 report: “Release those names.”
Also - it's called foreign interference. Or, Tuesday, as the Liberals call it:
Liberal MPs say the party must change the rules to allow only citizens and permanent residents to vote for its new leader, which they argue is necessary to guard against the threat of foreign interference.
The Liberal party is the first federal party to hold a leadership contest after concerns about countries like China and India meddling in Canadian elections broke open, prompting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to call a public inquiry following months of pressure.
How about a nation-wide strike, as well?:
Canada is quickly descending into failed state territory as we approach the three-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy.
It has a government lacking in democratic legitimacy. Its governing party is by some polling measures the least popular in the country's history. Its ruling party lacks the key constitutional requirement of holding the confidence of the House of Commons. Its leader has lost the moral right to govern, even among its own elected MPs.
In mere days, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States, promising a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, representing an existential threat to the trade-reliant Canadian economy. And as Canada faces this generational challenge, Canada has no effective government.
President Trump will either refuse to negotiate with a Canadian delegation which has no mandate to represent Canada or — more worrisome — he will negotiate with a weak government he knows he can walk all over.
During the Liberal leadership race, candidates will be mighty tempted to descend into (Pierre) Trudeau-esqe anti-Americanism to drum up (post) nationalist support from a reflexively anti-Trump Liberal membership base. That may serve their short-term political interests well, but it would leave Canada in an impossibly no-win negotiating position.
And then that Liberal leader will very likely go on to lose the general election anyway.
In the best-case scenario from where we sit today, Canadians will have to wait half a year before a new government is sworn in with a democratic mandate to deal with Trump.
No matter how you slice it, the Liberals are in an impossible position. There is only one answer to the deep crisis enveloping Canada.
An election. Right. Bloody. Now.
Every single day that the Liberals keep Parliament suspended and focus on delaying the inevitable, they sink Canada deeper into an economic and political crisis. Every day they focus on trying to save the furniture with internal political bunfights, is a day that what little regard is left of Canada's institutions deteriorates into contempt.
No amount of political intrigue is going to place the Liberals back into a position of being seen by Canadians as a credible government able to meet the moment of crisis.
Only an election can clear the air and return some small degree of legitimacy to our government. The Liberals won't win that election, but if they do, fine. At least someone will have a mandate to address this threat. Right now, no one does. That is why premiers like Danielle Smith and Doug Ford have had to fill the power vacuum left by the vandals occupying Parliament Hill.
But Trudeau will not allow an election. He has prorogued (suspended) Parliament so that the Liberals can select someone else to take the fall in the next election. But how much damage will Canada suffer in the meantime? How many jobs will be lost? How far into depression will we fall? How far will they drag the legitimacy of Canada's very government through the mud?
The Liberals debase themselves, and Canada. They refuse to allow an election and live up to their own tut-tutting about democracy.
If Canadians want an election, they will have to demand one. Boldly.
In January 2022, Canadians — led by regular Albertans that most had never heard of before — decided that the authoritarian actions of the Trudeau-Singh government had gone too far, and they organized the Freedom Convoy.
That convoy made its way from the West — and eventually the East — converging on a panicked Parliament Hill. They threw the Liberals and the entire governing class into spasms of still more authoritarian pique. Completely unable to grasp what this "small, fringe, minority" really wanted, they and their government-funded media allies painted them as violent, degenerate fascists.
When that failed, they invoked the War Measures [Emergencies] Act, which had only thrice been used before in Canadian history: World War One, World War Two, and the FLQ terrorist crisis. They forcibly dragooned unwilling tow truck drivers into forced labour and sent armed goons to violently clear out the bouncy-castle rabble. Then they engaged in lawfare against their political opponents, which is still ongoing.
But the Freedom Convoy sure as sßiess scared the hell out of them, and they realized that they had pushed the people too far. The lockdowns and mandates ended.
January 2025 marks three years since the Freedom Convoy took its stand against the authoritarian Trudeau government. But in 2025, that government lacks even the basic moral authority to govern. It is desperately afraid of an election that it knows it will lose in a historic fashion, so much so that it has suspended Parliament.
The Liberals have surrendered any claim that they might have at this point to represent the country. If Canadians really want an election, a new convoy may be the only way to force one.
THIS:
It doesn’t matter who leads the Liberal party, whether it is Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Mark Carney, or, for that matter, if it is Ryan Reynolds, or that French-speaking pineapple that still haunts Canadians of a certain age (if you know, you know). Nothing can alter the party’s parasitic nature that has seeped into all walks of Canadian life, poisoning every government, business, media and cultural institution. The only solution is for the party to be torn out of the country, root and branch.
While the Liberal party has grown particularly obnoxious of late, it has, for at least 100 years, existed to direct state resources to maintain its own power centres.
Liberals cannot fathom the notion that anyone else can govern this god forsaken land. Even less, can they fathom why anyone would vote for another party. To Liberals, anytime another party is in power, that government is, by definition, illegitimate on the account of it not being Liberal.
This arrogance is a defining feature of the Liberals, inseparable from who they are.
Less than seven months after the John Diefenbaker Conservatives won a minority in the 1957 election, then-Liberal leader Lester Pearson demanded the Governor General declare him prime minister, for no other reason than that he was leading the Liberals, and the “Tory pause” had gone on, in his view, long enough.
He presented a motion to the House of Commons that read: “In view of the desirability, at this time, of having a government pledged to implement Liberal policies, His Excellency’s advisors should … submit their resignations forthwith.” In response, Diefenbaker requested, and was granted, an election and was re-elected with the largest parliamentary majority to date, no doubt dumbfounding the ever entitled Liberals. ...
If it weren’t for Canada’s geographic proximity to the U.S., and the wealth that comes with that, this country would be a failed state. There is only one solution and that is the destruction of the Liberal party.
It needs to be done because the damage to Canada is incalculable.
Oh, burn!:
Two-term MPs have lost automatic pension eligibility with the prorogation of Parliament. A bill guaranteeing payments worth an average $77,900 a year for dozens of MPs has now lapsed: “We can show Canadians that we hear them.”
Why not deal with the dysfunction on your reserve instead?:
Chief Angela Levasseur of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in remote northern Manitoba has a big knife problem. Machetes — foot-long bush knives popular with campers and farmers — have become the weapon of choice for young gang members terrorizing her 3,500-member reserve.
“Over the last two years we have seen a really high level of machete crimes committed by youth and on youth in our community,” she said from Nelson House, 850 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. “It’s just too easy for anyone to possess a machete.” Due in part to Levasseur’s lobbying, Manitoba recently passed Canada’s first machete law. The Long-Bladed Weapon Control Act regulates the sale of any knife longer than 30 centimetres. As of last week, sales are restricted to people 18 years and older, purchasers must show photo ID and retailers must track sales.
Article contentBased on the demands of advocates such as Levasseur, this may be only the beginning of new knife control measures in Canada — all troublingly modelled on our long and fruitless attempt at controlling guns.
The province claims its new law will keep big knives out of the hands of young criminals. That seems unlikely. Once the act takes effect, it will still be legal for an 18-year-old to buy an armful of machetes and hand them out to fellow gang members. Tougher measures require changes to the federal Criminal Code.
Canadian doctors have suggested killing euthanasia victims by taking their organs, according to multiple reports, whistleblowers, and public talks. Medical freedom advocates are documenting emerging ties between “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) and organ harvesting.**
Over the past decade, Trudeau morphed from the liberal golden child to an international cautionary tale. Trudeau’s personal wokeness redefined the Liberal Party and Canada’s international reputation. He poured billions of taxpayer dollars into funding abortion and LGBT causes at home and abroad, and rarely missed an opportunity to declare his support for feticide, sex changes for minors, or show up at a Pride event (or TV drag show). His anti-Christian bigotry was a feature of his government; despite his near-constant warnings and campaigns to combat “Islamophobia,” he virtually ignored over 100 churches being attacked and vandalized, including over thirty being burned to the ground.
Trudeau’s last diehard supporters are already claiming that he ably led the country through the pandemic; that, too, is a sick joke. Trudeau’s decision to call an election and campaign on vaccine mandates divided the country so starkly that he triggered the Freedom Convoy, in which hundreds of semi trucks and other vehicles descended on the capital in early 2022 and stayed there for weeks. Instead of talking, Trudeau invoked the Emergency Measures Act—once called the War Measures Act—and sent in police on horseback. His government also froze the bank accounts of Canadians and smeared all involved. A federal court affirmed that he had violated the basic rights of Canadians.
Canada’s euthanasia regime has also attracted international horror. Since 2016, over 60,000 Canadians have been euthanized. Canadians have been euthanized because they cannot access the healthcare they need; because mental health supports are unavailable; because disability assistance is nearly impossible to obtain. Reports of impoverished Canadians desperately opting for assisted suicide prompted the progressive Toronto Star to dub the regime “Hunger Games-style social Darwinism.” Around half of the 15,300 Canadians euthanized in 2023 cited “fear of being a burden” as one of the reasons they accepted it.
Notoriously apathetic, Canadians might even have tolerated all of that if it weren’t for the manifest incompetence of the Trudeau government on every single file. Canadians are now utilizing food banks in record numbers (2024 numbers show a 90% surge from 2019). The country’s housing crisis has made Canada one of the most unaffordable places in the world to obtain a home, with a generation unable to buy their way into the market. After scores of terrorist-sympathizing rallies and skyrocketing antisemitism—including multiple attacks on Jewish elementary schools—Canadians have soured on immigration, too. The Trudeau government aggressively increased the number of newcomers, and estimates indicate that more than three million immigrants arrived during Trudeau’s tenure before his government belatedly announced plans to curb arrivals.
It is not quite accurate to say that Canadians, when they finally get the opportunity to mete out the electoral punishment the Trudeau Liberals so richly deserve, are “rejecting woke,” as we have seen in recent elections across Europe and elsewhere. While it is true that Trudeau has likely soured millions of Canadians on wokeness for years to come, most, at this point, are simply voting in self-defence. Trudeau departs 24 Sussex utterly unburdened by the love of his countrymen, the respect of his international counterparts, and the dignity possessed by even moderately competent leaders. He no doubt hopes that the defining image of his premiership will be of him on the campaign trail, or perhaps clutching desperately at the Ukrainian president.
Instead, it should be a photo of police on horseback, advancing on working-class Canadian protestors in the snow in the shadow of Parliament’s Peace Tower.
Americans have had it with the educational status quo:
Can Keir Starmer imagine this game?:
The horrific Arabic “game,” Taharrush, first gained global attention in 2013 during the uprising in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where local women and foreign journalists were sexually assaulted by groups of Islamic men exploiting the chaos of protests against the Egyptian president.
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