Trudeau stepped down but he also suspended Parliament to avoid a vote of no confidence.
Parliament is Prorogued
CBC Canada reports With Trudeau on his way out, Parliament is prorogued. Here’s what that means
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said he will be stepping down from the country’s top office and from his role as Liberal Party leader as soon as a replacement is chosen.
In the same breath, he also confirmed Parliament will be prorogued, or suspended, until March 24.
Prorogation effectively allows the prime minister to hit pause on Parliament. The government remains in power, but all parliamentary activity — from existing bills and committee work to studies and investigations — comes to a halt.
A speech from the throne is then scheduled to kick off the next parliamentary session and lay out the government’s intentions going forward.
Why prorogue Parliament?
Prorogation is different than dissolution, which terminates Parliament and triggers a general election.
In this case, it means the Liberals will avoid a confidence vote and get more time to run a leadership race. Trudeau said confidence votes that come after March 24 will “allow Parliament to weigh in on confidence in a way that is entirely in keeping with all the principles of democracy.“
“Anyone who’s been watching politics closely over the past months will know that Parliament has been entirely seized by obstruction, by filibustering and a total lack of productivity,” Trudeau said Monday when asked why he chose prorogation instead of immediately setting off the next election.
“It’s time for a reset. It’s time for the temperature to come down.”
Hoot of the Day
Trudeau says that he suspended Parliament “keeping with all the principles of democracy.”
The Likely Next PM Blasts Trudeau
Pierre Poilievre, a Conservative and likely next Canadian Prime Minister, Blasts the Liberals
Click above link for a video.
The following Text Transcription is by @VigilantFox.
“Over the last nine years, all Liberal politicians actively worked to pass into law the job-killing, inflationary carbon tax, a tax that Carney endorsed in his book. “All supported a law quadrupling the tax over the next five years. All voted for or actively supported Trudeau’s out-of-control spending, debt, and immigration. All passed Trudeau’s housing policies that doubled the cost of homes.”
“All Liberal politicians helped pass catch-and-release bail and house arrest for the most rampant re-offenders, policies that increased violent crime by 50%, gun crime by 116%, and hate crime by 250%. So, given that Liberal MPs and leadership contenders unanimously supported everything Trudeau has done, why dump him now, right before an election?”
“Have they had a change of heart? Is it because they feel guilty that they doubled housing costs, hiked taxes, unleashed crime, broke immigration, and forced a quarter of the population into poverty? ”
“No. They continued supporting Trudeau when he did all of those things. Their only objection is that he is no longer popular enough to win an election and keep them in power. They want to protect their pensions and paychecks by sweeping their hated leader under the rug months before an election to trick you and then do it all over again.”
Vigilant Fox Comments
The Liberal Party’s views haven’t changed, but they’re desperate to cut ties with Trudeau before they collapse alongside him.
Soured Vision
The Wall Street Journal notes Trudeau to Resign as Voters Sour on His Vision for Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that he will resign after almost a decade in power, bowing to members of his party who have been calling on him to step aside ahead of an election later this year.
“It has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election,” Trudeau said during an announcement from the country’s capital, Ottawa.
Trudeau said he would stay on as prime minister until the party chooses a new leader, a process that could take months. He also moved to suspend the current session of the legislature, to avoid facing a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
Public opinion polls released in late 2024 and early this year indicate Trudeau’s approval rating fell to about 20%, and the Liberal Party trails the Conservatives by over 20 percentage points.
Liberal lawmaker Wayne Long said the Liberal Party under Trudeau has swung too much to the left on the political spectrum, much like the Democrats in the U.S.
“I don’t want to use the word wokeism, but we’ve doubled down on things where we’ve come out as a moral authority,” said Long, who isn’t seeking re-election this year. “People are tired of it. It doesn’t mean that they’re right and we’re wrong, but reality bites, and reality sometimes sucks.”
Like Biden
The Journal notes “Trudeau promised to lead an inclusive government that would support the middle class, draw strength from the country’s diversity and position Canada as a more prominent player on the global stage.“
But like Biden, Trudeau morphed into a divisive Progressive wet dream persona reviled by all but the wokest of the woke.
Second Canadian Hoot
People are tired of Wokeism but “it doesn’t mean they are right,” said Progressive Canadian clown, Wayne Long.
Returning to Pierre Poilievre … “Have they had a change of heart? Is it because they feel guilty that they doubled housing costs, hiked taxes, unleashed crime, broke immigration, and forced a quarter of the population into poverty? ”
Bingo.
Lesson of the Day
You can only ruin the country so much before there is a huge voter backlash.
However, Biden and Trudeau are both in denial. Biden even claims that he would have beaten Trump.
Biden is senile. What’s Trudeau’s excuse?
I look forward to a landslide victory by Tory leader Pierre Poilievre. Best wishes to Canada from Mish.
Trump’s 25 Percent Tax Bluff
By the way, Trump’s threat of a 25 percent tax on Canadian and Mexican imports ius a bluff.
For discussion, please see How Much Revenue Can Trump Realistically Bring in From Tariffs?
Trudeau is the garbage spawn of his cheating mother and Cuba’s 20th century dictator. Even ignoring his genetic connections, he’s just a weak beta who says the right things but means none of it. Good riddance.
The trucker protest should have never happened. He refused to turn the burner down and instead kept turning it up. Now he says he wants his own political situation to simmer down. Oh really? I say de-bank him and his entire family until he leaves office. Illegal? Yes but even Stevens.
Trudeau is officially a hardcore Swiftie. Despite riots breaking out he didn’t let it stop him from enjoying those prime Taylor Swift concert seats. Now he can also say he got dumped by A LOT of guys just like her!
Lol! This is all so funny.
It seems that Canadians get tired of their government after 9 years, regardless of which party is in power or who the Prime Minister is.
Pierre Trudeau, Liberal, 9 yrs
Brian Mulroney, Conservative, 9 years
Jean Chretien, Liberal, 9 years
Stephen Harper, Conservative, 9 years
Justin Trudeau, Liberal, 10 years
I guess Justin stayed a year too long. Time for Pollievre and the Conservatives. Which should be good for my Canadian oil stocks. Maybe for the next 9 years!
And then Canadians will tire of the Conservatives and go back to the Liberals. How old are Justin’s
Children? Maybe one of them will be next.
The same is happening in the US except the electorate is getting more impatient than 9 years. 4 years and you are done. I have a sneaking suspicion JD Vance is going to be President before 2028. Say 2026 for spitballin’. The real truth of it all is governments everywhere have no clue about economics and are making it up as they go along. It remains to be seen who gets it right first.
The world (humanity) is always in turmoil; full of problems, largely of our own making, and often a result of unintended consequences of our daily lives. Governments come and go. Leaders come and go. Political and Economic Theories come and go. And no one “is going to get it right” as you say. Because there is no “right”.
Which is why I do not spend too much of my time on politics, other than to figure out how to take advantage of whatever political decisions are being made at the time.
I am going to get philosophical for a minute.
On a larger scale: The entire universe is in a state of chaos and entropy.
For life to even exist requires energy, order, and increasing complexity. Which is at odds with the natural state of the universe. So life is always in a struggle to survive against chaos and entropy.
The key to life is energy; not politics or economics. Those are both human constructs designed to help us manage the energy, in an attempt to create the order needed to survive.
Your philosophical comments are interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I will expand a bit with one example. Before agriculture, man was a hunter/gatherer; expending most of his energy to just survive. And we were indeed fortunate to survive at all. With the advent of agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, we suddenly could grow far more calories (energy) with far less effort (energy) than when we were hunter/gatherers. This extra energy allowed us to accomplish so much more than we could when we spent all our time just surviving. This allowed us to establish the first fixed settlements and our population grew. This was the beginning of our attempt to create order, to help us manage the growing populations and surplus energy that we were creating. And from this order, came the first attempts at a structured system of “politics”.
As our population grew from 1 million, to 1 billion in 1800, this required a huge increase in complexity and the amount of energy needed to manage it.
But we weren’t done yet. We then discovered the energy of fossil fuels. Which has allowed us to explode the population from 1 billion in 1800 to 8 billion today. And the complexity has increased dramatically.
Assuming we continue to grow our economies by 3% per year, that means 3% more energy per year needed. So 24 years from now, we will be using twice as much energy as we do today, to maintain the complexity and order of our modern lives.
It will be difficult to achieve this with fossil fuels alone, as we have pretty much used up most of the easily accessible cheap deposits.
Lol… You have no clue about economics, the evidence is in your every post!
Never thought I’d see Canada and the United States on the same wave length in my lifetime again.
Even James Carville admitted he strayed away from the “It’s the economy stupid” and made a colossal error in reading the electorate. Seems to be that way in much of the west now. A lot of folks are tired of chasing their tail.
– A lot of folks are tired of chasing their tail.
> That sounds about right!
>> It seems as though the U.S. is in a spiral of trying to take care of “Both Sides” back and fourth. As a result, with a 100% Push for Liberals and their Agenda, Biden will be replaced. Same happened to Trump in 2020, as he replaced the Liberal Hillary. Of course 2012, when Obama supposedly won his second term, but that belonged to the conservatives based on this trend. It Should/Would have, but the Republicans Ran A Liberal in Romney. So the electorate said “Hey Another Liberal” and Romney lost to Obama’s 2’nd term (A Forced Error by Incompetent Republican Leaders).
I think that’s exactly what’s been happening.as the Electorate are just eating up what’s on the dinner plate. Put up a “Good Conservative” to the Conservatives and they will Win, and likewise for the Democrats. With that line of thinking, it appears JD Vance is a shoe in if Trump does well in his term, and makes the Conservatives very happy. If not, then the Democrats will step right back into play…
The right always thinks they can do things better, but end up spending the same as the left. The difference is that the right ends up with an economic collapse for the left to cleans up. Good times start and continue under the left.
Don’t know what will happen in Canada, but to lump Trump together with your typical rightwing pol would be naive.
Trump is the Conservative King, equal, to the Liberal King in Obama. Those 2 have both Won 2 Terms in unbelievable fashion! They were the first Two in a long time, to literally “Capture” their Parties Votes.
Obama had one of the worst “Political Benches” in my lifetime, and as good as He was For His Party, they couldn’t muster enough energy without Him. The decay in the past parties represented, was the same decay we saw in their Voters Energy.
This is WHY JD must be his best all 4 years, and show overwhelmingly that He “Deserves” the Conservatives Votes. Trump will no doubt, overwhelmingly hold up His end of the bargain for certain!
We shall see…
You’re right. These last 4 years has been one great time. That’s why people voted to end it.
People are broker now more than ever. Yes, more than the 70s. Poverty will always Trump Wokism at the polls.
Wipe away those tears, minion, and shout for joy at the golden age that started today! Praises to Dear Leader (me)!
Was it the left or right that flushed nearly 200 BILLION down the Ukraine toilet?
I can’t even imagine “The Joy” on all the U.S. Citizens faces, as Trump starts Clawing All those “Taxpayer Dollars” back, and putting that money right into their “Agendas and Goals”
They love to Work, to Eat, to be able to afford gas for the car, heat their Homes, and have nutritional food back on the table. Kids doing well in school again, and the Teachers Unions starting (By Force, and Not On There Own of course) to Focus on the “Children’s Education” and not what there pronoun is, or what gender they happen to be on any given day, and of course which bathroom they should use. It’s all gotten so utterly ridiculous…
This time is different. There won’t be another election. You’re stuck with us.
“By the way, Trump’s threat of a 25 percent tax on Canadian and Mexican imports is a bluff.”
Sigh.
This is not a bluff.
It will not happen, but not because Trump is bluffing.
Canada and Mexico are much more dependent on the US than we are on them.
This is of course assuming Congress doesn’t block Trump.
Can’t he just do the opposite of what “Old Joe” did? He couldn’t be stopped, on much of what He did by EO and forced through? Where there is a Will, and if there Is a way, Trump will make it happen!!
Good stuff from The View today as the host compared J6 to the Holocaust. There are so many intelligent women in the world yet they trot these ladies out to embarras them all…im sure they will apologize tomorrow not that it matters
Unfortunately, and not for intelligence, but because of Money, the View will be “Far From Sight” very shortly. No way they will be able to spend a hundred million on “Talking Heads” for just their Party!
Paraphrasing an old saw:
When is best time to oust Justin Trudeau?
9 years ago
When is the next best time to oust Justin Trudeau?
Today
Worst. PM. EVER.
I’m hopeful that Canada can now be absorbed into the US where it belongs. Then onto Greenland.
I prefer they stay separate. Absorbing them I think would be a pain in the ass.
Agreed, and Jr. Was a tail of the machine wagging. Plenty of dogs to keep lapping up whatever it is they’re being fed up There!
No thanks, to any of that crap down here please!!
Such a stupid comment.
There’s a laugh; keep dreaming. As if we’re going to hand it over on a silver platter. Generations of Canadians have worked hard to build Canada into what it is today.
Agree with the sentiment, but do we really want to absorb most Canadians? I mean they actually did vote for Trudeau.
I like to think it’s like CA where there are lots of conservatives who are stuck and dying to escape. Maybe half of it could be like a glorious North Korea for the libs
Yes, it’s a lot like CA where the north is conservative and the south is liberal.
The Western Canadian provinces (Alberta/Sask/Manitoba etc) are all conservative by nature and are loaded with resources / food production with low populations so they are net positive producers. They’d be excellent areas to absorb. The rest of Canada not so much because you already have in Washington State everything that BC offers and Michigan/Ohio everything Ontario offers and in the New England states everything that PEI/New Brunswick/Nova Scotia offers. The US definitely doesn’t need the headache of Quebec ceding to form its own country.
So the only part the US really would want are the 3 provinces I mentioned.
Nothing we need, but some workers perhaps? We don’t need to absorb them for that though…
Correct. I’ve been here close to 3 decades under what was NAFTA. So yeah all the best and brightest can easily be imported from Canada.
That’s not correct.Justin Trudeau has never received the votes of a majority of Canadian voters. It’s a little different from the U.S., you can become or remain prime minister with voter support of only 33 percent or even much less that that.
We need to approach it on a province by province basis. Alberta? Sure, no problem. Saskatchewan? Probably the same. Manitoba. Good possibility. But Quebec? Sacre bleu! Or BC? Even Ontario is problematic. The Maritimes? Maybe, but that’s like taking on 3 more Maines. Do we really want to do that to ourselves?
Thanks for the wishes Mr. Shedlock. Justin Trudeau’s spending & carbon tax were actually among the least destructive of his policies in the minds of most Canadians. The most destructive, by far, were his insane immigration policies, like increasing the population by an astonishing 3.2% in just one year (2023), which was higher than Nigeria’s population growth rate that year! And importantly, the quality of the migrants (on average) was far lower than what we were used to — an explicit policy choice by Trudeau’s government to make it easy to increase migrant intake dramatically.
And we can see the effects of this *everywhere* in Canada; infrastructure is completely overloaded, especially housing & healthcare, crime of all types has increased significantly, ethnic tribes are now fighting each other openly in the streets, and I could go on. It’s my belief, along with many others, that these quite visible effects of reckless immigration policies is what really sank Justin Trudeau. Of course there were lots of other egregious policies, the most notable being a proposed thoughtcrime law that could see folks confined to house arrest based on the “reasonable fear” that they *in the future* might publish “hate propaganda” (which of course was ill-defined in the proposed law). It must seem like I’m joking but I’m not!
If chairman Xi did as much damage to China, he would have ended up before a firing squad of People’s Liberation Army.
Advantage democracy, where grifters, imbeciles and crooks can ride free into the sunset.
Disagree. Xi has in fact already done more damage to China than Trudeau has to Canada, yet Xi remains dictator for life there.
Interesting to see Harris and the rest have no problem certifying today for “hitler.” It’s almost like they never believed their hate to begin with. 😒
Or they believe in the law and the vote certification process? Or the reality that voters picked someone else, which they are entitled to as Americans? Or they don’t want to promote vigilantism on the nation’s steps?
So many possible reasons…
So they wouldn’t stop actual “hitler” out of principle? Listen to yourself
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Unlike 2020, the 2024 election wasn’t marred by Zuckerboxes and various other unconstitutional changes to the “times, places and manner” of elections not “prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof” (Article 1, section 4, clause 1).
For the record, though, I concede that Biden won only vote that really matters: the electoral college vote. Whether the Vice-President has a constitutional or legal right to not certify the count is an open question.
Hubris thinks it’s ok to certify Hitler. Bc rules. Words matter libs. Twisted yourself into pretzels with your lies
Please cite the source where Harris called Trump “Hitler” because it didn’t happen: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-calls-trump-fascist-argues-dangerous-unfit-office-rcna176713
This is your response. The whole democratic party used Hitler references for years. Years. She said he praised Hitlers generals. Biden said he uses Hitlers language. So we are to take this as not saying it? Plus you still miss the point. If democrats really believe he’s Hitler they shouldn’t be doing any of this. Fact is, they don’t believe that, the same way the things they said about Trump in 2016 were laughed at at the Al Smith dinner with Clinton there. They are fake. Phony. 3 dollar bills…and their words and hate led to two assassination attempts so far. Inexcusable. Just say that. Otherwise you just lost to felon Hitler. Which is it?
Goering was the fat guy.
Goering was a fit athlete in his younger days. Je got fat and stupid in his older says.
Oh, NOW I get it. You are so blinded by political hate-lust for Biden you get your headline news mixed up sometimes. Were you referring to VP-elect Vance with the “Hitler” jab at Trump? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/
DId JD vote to certify the German-Austrian prodigy? LOL
Funny enough JD apologized and said how wrong he was. Has Biden or Harris or media apologized? Have you? Do I need to pull up your old posts? Just say you fucked up and look foolish. It happens
Well Trump literally is NOT Hitler, so there’s that. I suppose even Harris (not sure about Joe) could see that… perhaps, or tipped off at least, so she had it in her ear. Maybe She “Was doing what She Was Told” to do ? Didn’t someone say that to someone else recently…
I couldn’t imagine anyone with a lower approval rate than Biden, but Trudeau II surprised me.
2 of the most destructive leaders in World History
That is clearly a hyperbole, Genghis khan is also in the running.
Genghis had a mandate.
How was Khan destructive? Technically he united a whole lot of the world under one rule (not much different than what the colonists did to America over a couple hundred years), abolished torture, advanced womens rights and religious freedom.
Now if you had said a whole lot of late Roman Empire dynasty leaders you might have people to compare to Biden and Trudeau.
You clearly missed the sarcasm.
Thanks Mish! It has been a horrific nine years under this Cretin. He has ruined our once-great country through his Neo-Marxist Authoritarian ideologies. The recent election of President Trump may have helped force his hand – Trump sees right through the phoniness of Trudeau’s performative caring.
Appease my ignorance Why was he elected? The CN version of the US Left? ☮️✝️
Why was he elected? The electorate was tired of Stephen Harper (I myself was not). Trudeau had a famous name, a great head of hair and appealed to our far left MSM. He was Mr. Woke at a time when it was fashionable. We may never recover.
And yet he groped women in college and repeatedly sported blackface. His wokeness was just a front. The only thing he cared about was his own ego.
He got elected for the worst reasons. He was good looking and charming. The same thing happened here in the US with Warren Harding and later Bill Clinton.
Both Harding and Clinton liked a good cigar now and then.
The fancy socks and suit a couple of sizes too small.
I got tingles reading this Mish.
But like Biden, Trudeau morphed into a divisive Progressive wet dream persona reviled by all but the wokest of the woke