Right after Trump threatened to impose high tariffs (25%) on all goods from Canada until Canada stems the flow of illegal aliens and drugs entering America from the Canadian side of the border, panic ensued north of the border, and it has only escalated into pandemonium on both the provincial and national levels. Now Trudeau is faced with a crisis from his own government. Even the Toronto Star editorial board stated that “it’s time for Justin Trudeau to resign,” and the UK’s Telegraph didn’t mince words in its headline: “Donald Trump may just have toppled Justin Trudeau’s government.”
Trudeau’s Deputy Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly resigned from the cabinet, merely days before she was to deliver a fiscal update. She also relinquished her position as deputy prime minister. Hours later, Dominic LeBlanc was Trudeau’s pick to replace Freeland as finance minister.
Freeland posted on X her formal letter to Trudeau. It showcases a clash in strategy and policy in the face of Trump’s tariff threat, and her grievance regarding no longer having Trudeau’s confidence to do her job:
See my letter to the Prime Minister below // Veuillez trouver ma lettre au Premier ministre ci-dessous pic.twitter.com/NMMMcXUh7A
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) December 16, 2024
On the heels of Freeland’s resignation came another shock for Trudeau:
The news seemed to catch Housing Minister Sean Fraser off guard Monday morning when he was asked about it during a press conference announcing his own resignation from cabinet.
Between July and now, six Liberal cabinet ministers have announced they won’t be running again.
Provincial politicians are no less unsettled over Trump’s threat. Ontario Progressive Conservative premier Doug Ford has threatened to shut down energy exports to the U.S. over Trump’s tariff threat, and got pushback:
#BREAKING: Quebec and Newfoundland Premiers say waging war with the U.S and threatening and cut their power…
Is an extremely dumb thing to do when all Trump wants is for Canada to secure its border.
Doug Ford to shut his fat mouth and listen. pic.twitter.com/6tN6ax3ScO
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) December 12, 2024
Actually, it’s three premiers who do not support Doug Ford’s threat: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Quebec Premier François Legault, and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Furey.
The federal government’s reaction to the provinces was to downplay the premiers’ response to Trump’s tariffs. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc warned: “One should be careful not to confuse the odd public comment, with what is a clear desire to work together with the Government of Canada…This is an important moment for the whole country.”
Ford also spoke to Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul, saying “they fully understood where I was coming from.”
Other side meetings that excluded Prime Minister Trudeau:
- Quebec Premier Francois Legault met with Trump in Paris to talk about the border and tariffs. Think about it. This is severely embarrassing to Trudeau as prime minister of Canada.
- Conservative Member of Parliament Jamil Jivani met with Vice President-elect JD Vance (whom he knew from college) amid Trump’s tariff threats. Another embarrassment to Trudeau. No one has confidence in him.
According to a new Léger poll, most Canadians agree with Trump on the border issue, while they lack confidence in Trudeau on ability to “successfully handle the new U.S. president and his tariff proposals.”
Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre pointed fingers in the right direction from the start, stating of Trudeau:
“He’s lost control of our borders, he’s lost control of immigration, he’s lost control of spending, and with that erratic performance, we now see that he’s lost control of himself…No wonder foreign leaders believe they can walk all over him, they see him as a weak, incompetent leader who does not even have the support of his own caucus.”
Poilievre is now seen as best leader to deal with Trump according to an Ipsos poll, as Trudeau scrambles to regain control of his own government, let alone Canada and Trump. A cabinet shuffle is expected soon with a puzzling new player: the unelected Mark Carney, former chief of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Even loudmouthed NDP leader and hypocrite Jagmeet Singh, who propped up Trudeau in the House of Commons to ensure the passing of every major bill and shield Trudeau from no-confidence motions, is now calling for Trudeau’s resignation. Others doing the same are Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, along with other politicians and the public.
On Monday night, Liberal MP’s from all over the country convened on Parliament Hill for an emergency caucus meeting in the face of “renewed calls from some members of his party to resign.”
Trudeau is expected by many to resign. If he does, it’s uncertain who will replace him. If he doesn’t, a no-confidence motion may be introduced in late January when parliamentarians resume after the holidays. In this scenario, he’s lost his Jagmeet Singh prop and the government will most likely fall. Otherwise, Canada is stuck with him until the October 2025 elections.
Billy says
Trudeau and his Political Party and its supporters along with Islam’s Muslims are enemies of Canada and its citizens. Moreover, Islam is a deceitful, totalitarian, terrorist, pedophilic Criminal Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims by using discrimination, deception, hatred, rape, murder, and violence to gain ultimate power and control as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran. Furthermore, Islam’s supremacist-genocidal Ideology, its intolerant Muslims, its propaganda Schools, its foreign terrorist Organizations, and its ‘Convert-or-Die’ Mosques fund, teach, inspire, and promote ‘Threats and Incitement of Violence’ as well as never-ending terrorism, loathing, and segregation against women, children, and all Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 2:191-3; 4:65, 89, 100; 5:14,82; 8:65; 9:5,14-15,29,111; 33:26; 47:4; 65:4; 98:6-7 and more).
Hank says
“Trudeau and his Political Party and its supporters along with Islam’s Muslims are enemies of Canada and its citizens. ”
When Oh when is Canada going to get rid of this Leftwing antichrist traitor nitwit and its Political Party that has destroyed Canada, exposed its citizens to a serious security risk and perpetual chaos, by importing Muslims who basically want its destruction to live among them.
joanofark06 says
Exactly! Agree!
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
JerkHisMeat the Wankmeat Singh needs to stop supporting Blackface Justin Screwdeau. Ofcourse he won’t because he wants his pension by screwing hardworking Canadians
࿗Infidel࿘ says
A question to Canadians here. Does their parliament have fixed terms, or do they get to dissolve it at will, like for instance Britain? If it’s the latter, why doesn’t Trudeau simply put himself out of his misery by dissolving parliament and calling new elections? At least that way, he may get a tactical advantage on his rivals
Also, open borders is his covenant, so when Trump threatens him on that issue, he first whines that Canada would be screwed, then he tries to troll Trump but ends up trolling US voters instead (the question of us refusing twice to elect the first woman president) and finally he’s twisting in the wind when his deputy refuses to screw Canada’s economy to help him purchase cheap popularity
All those Canadian politicians scared about what could happen to their country’s economy should note that this tariff threat is more based on Canada’s open borders, rather than any trade imbalance w/ the US. If they just fixed that and adhered to the USMCA, they’d be just fine. That said, Doug Ford’s comments seem to suggest why the conservatives are not the panacea for Canada, and that they’d do better supporting the PPC instead
E T says
Has Justine long ago received a directive from the New World Order clowns to get rid of Freeland, a WEF chair peoplekind and put in One World Government Mark Carney? He is a big fan of 15 minute cities and digital currency. A man who fancies himself far above the “little useless eaters”. The Elites take special joy in touting Carney as brilliant, gonna save everybody and the world. He is high above the clouds.
Justine and Freeland lost the people of Canada, well, the “fringe minority”, whose numbers are much higher than the 2 global clowns thought, when they turned on Canadian citizens with the disgraceful, unjust implementation of the Emergency ACT. The NDP voted totally in favour of the Emergency Act in support of the global, socialist clowns. Some went as far as mentioning an insurrection! Yeah a bouncy castle insurrection.
One can only hope Canadians will wake up to the WEF, EU, UN and WHO. Hopefully the Liberals and far left NDP will be reduced to no party status. Times are changing and they cannot rely on a mass number of 2+2=5 ballot counters.
Michelle Colcerin says
We have woken up. There are many wide awake Canadians. Over the past few months, the opposition has put forward votes of non confidence which the NDP have voted against, thus keeping the Liberals in power. Now Jagmeet Singh is asking JT to resign, when all along he has the power to disolve the government and go to election. We all know Jagmeet is waiting until Feb 2025 before he votes non confidence… that is when he qualifies for his pension… the NDP party has publically confirmed this. We do not have an electoral system like the States.
When Trudeau was elected in 2015, he changed the Liberal party rules with the approval of the Liberal party. The Liberal party leader stays as leader, no matter what… unless he loses an election or steps down willingly. So, here we are…
Skeptiker says
Welchen Mehrwert hat Trudeau während seiner Regentschaft Kanada gebracht ? Er ist ein Davos Clown und wirkt neben Donald Trump wie ein dummer Schuljunge oder wie Greta auf Testosteron. Wessen geistig Kind er ist, zeigte er während den Protesten gegen die menschenverachtenden Corona-Zwangsmaßnahmen. Ein Menschenfreund war der nie und von Demokratie, Meinungsfreiheit und Rechtsstaatlichkeit hält der auch nicht viel. Ist der nicht, wie sein Vater, ein großer MAO Bewunderer ? So nach dem Motto: Ein bisschen Diktatur kann doch nicht schaden. Und das bekommt man schneller und besser mit religiösen totalitären Gesellschaftsgruppen gebacken.
Andrew Blackadder says
Trump is not even sworn in yet as President and he has already shaken many World leaders up as they all know he aint a guy to mess with.
Wait until Jan 21st when many will see real actions taking place, 24 hours after we say once again. PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump.
WPM says
So Trump has Justin Trudeau resigning even before Trump is scorn in .He has NATO final saying they will pay the contractual amount to fund the defense of Europe for the first time .He has attracted up to 300 billion that the Japanese are willing to invest in America .He has many meeting with world leaders discussing future plans for American foreign policy .He has Mexico stopping the caravans from traveling from Central and South America to our borders .He has done all this before he is scorn in
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Has Trudeau already resigned? I saw some reports on Sky News Australia suggesting that he’s on the verge of resigning, but haven’t seen it confirmed. Has Trudeau finally decided to take the plunge, or call new elections?
Michelle Colcerin says
No, he hasn’t resigned. If you listen to YouTube videos of JT at a Christmas gala Monday evening… he will not resign…. period. We are going to election…
James Lincoln says
Pierre Poilievre appears to be the best hope for Canada – and I’m sure that he could work with Pres. Trump.
Make Canada Great Again!