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It shouldn’t have ended like this.
When it’s still 2015 Justin Trudeau ascended to the premiership his father held long before him, he was supposed to be a young, sexy, brash leader who could lead the Liberal Party and Canada for decades.
Today, Trudeau’s political career and reputation lie in the dustbin of history, like so many other slick neoliberals from Italy, Argentina to Germany, and beyond. Frustration with the progressive status quo of globalism boiled over.
And in any case, including The victory of the newly elected President Donald Trump in November 2024, over the Democratic Party machine and its media allies in the old USA, populism brought new thinkers to power and pushed 1990s progressivism to the curb.
In the Great White North today you could even say: Canadian truckers: 1, Justin Trudeau: 0
You remember the truckers, who parked their big trucks in Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandate in the bad old days of COVID in early 2022. They had the audacity to challenge Emperor Justin and paid a heavy price.
Trudeau and his government stooges vilified peaceful protesters, many of whom were families, as rebels and racists, and in some gruesome cases even froze the bank accounts of everyday Canadians who spoke out politically.
The reason I know Trudeau’s claims that Ottawa is under siege were lies is because I was there, there was no fear of violence, no dangerous radicalism, there were food tents, playhouses and a dance floor.
Not to mention hundreds of Canadian flags, many of which are proudly mounted on hockey sticks.
Trudeau seemed stunned and angered by the public rebuke. He should have been the leader of the great masses of workers in the streets, not their sworn enemy.
It only got worse with the emergence of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who for years has been calmly and carefully tearing apart Trudeau’s wretched socialist legacy, sometimes while casually eating an apple.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, speaks at the annual general meeting of the Assembly of First Nations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Thursday, July 11, 2024. (Photo: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
What Poilievre makes perfectly clear is that Trudeau has left his nation and his party in far worse shape than when he took office.
The the Canadian economy is a mess, free speech is under dangerous attack, immigration is out of control, and vigilantism has gone wild. The only achievement that Trudeau and the Libs in his country can point to is that it is now easier to kill yourself in Canada.
Trudeau’s writing has been on the wall for more than a year, but the latest dust-up with a key ally, Chrystia Freeland, could not survive for the prime minister. Incredibly, the root of that rift was that Freeland didn’t think Trudeau was treating populist Donald Trump as enough of a threat.
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Canadians know what the real threats are, so do the Americans and the British Italians and Hungarians and eventually maybe even the French. Throughout the West, the real threats are government interference in every aspect of our lives and its failure to secure our borders.
Justin Trudeau could have been built in the lab of a superpower NGO backed by billionaires. He championed every single left-wing policy, hunted down every globalist trade deal, and punished his own citizens if they dared to defy him.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida in December to discuss topics such as the economy, illegal immigration and proposed 25% tariffs. (Justin Trudeau X)
But clearly, in Canada, as in the United States, the people, not scions of powerful families or international think tanks, have the final say, and Trudeau’s resignation on Monday made it clear that the people have rejected him.
The vagaries of parliamentary systems such as Canada’s leave us in the dark as to when new elections could be held, this autumn at the latest, possibly much earlier, but in the end a victory for Poilievre and the Tories seems inevitable, another populist domino falling across Christendom.
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What will replace the last three decades of progressive rule in the West is not yet entirely clear, perhaps not even fully imagined, but the failed policies of globalism, open bordersmulticulturalism as well as national self-loathing are rejected.
For now, the people of Canada have sent their message to Trudeau loud and clear, they put it above, “Take your clothes off, eh. Ya hoser,” here in the States we’d say, “Don’t let the exit door hit you.”
