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January 7, 2025
His Ridiculousness Justin Trudeau Has Resigned

Good to hear that His Ridiculousness has finally deigned to resign from his post as Prime Minister of Canada.

Trudeau was of little importance to people outside of Canada. I have never written about him. But I will remember him for his fake wokeness which was as authoritarian as his use of emergency powers against truckers who protested against Covid restrictions.


Justin Trudeau and family meeting a native of India
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Arend Feenstra, a Canadian, who, with his wife and eight kids, has recently emigrated to Russia, feels relieved:

Trudeau's reign of terror is finally coming to an end! Many Canadians have seen their lives dramatically altered over the last 9 years, savings wiped out, health destroyed… feeling helpless and hopeless, many of us have fled to other countries in order to keep our children safe. Although Trudeau's resignation will not undo all the damage that he has done, it is a great start and hopefully the beginning of an end to the destructive and divisive liberal policies that have destroyed the Canada we all knew and loved. May God continue to bless all our beloved Canadians this year and may good overcome evil!

God bless you all! We wish you a merry Christmas and a wonderful new year from our new home here in Russia!

Arend's family has a video channel, Countryside Acres, on which they document their life. Their latest video, posted just two hours ago, is a review of their first year in Russia:


Posted by b on January 7, 2025 at 15:25 UTC | Permalink
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What is meant by savings wiped out and health destroyed? This guy seems like a partisan with a political axe to grind. I would never blame Trump or Biden directly for such microeconomic or personal outcomes.How is Canada different?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2025 15:36 utc | 1

Starmer and Macron to go. A stunning rebuke for the left in most of western civilization.

Posted by: team10tim | Jan 7 2025 15:43 utc | 2

I drank , with the Mrs., a Veuve Cliquot Brut bottle of champagne yesterday when our WEF idiot resigned; even the wife , a long time Liberal voter, said she wanted to buy it herself as she hates this narcissistic prick worse than I do-and that’s saying something.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 15:50 utc | 3

At Naked Capitalism, effect of sanctions on Russian Billionaires—they are richer now:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/who-benefits-from-russias-war-in-ukraine.html
Also, Simplicitus reports on the Yakuts Russian soldier—the knife fight was in November, the Ukrainian had killed his companion—I suppose in the preceding gun fight. The two Russians had been sent to plant the flag in a village still occupied by the UAF. They were accompanied by a drone that filmed most of the knife fight from a different angle than the Ukrainian’s GoPro….

Posted by: mjh | Jan 7 2025 15:51 utc | 4

@ team10tim, Starmer and Macron to go?!? They’re basically running Canada while the Canadian Parliament is prorogued and the PM is a lame duck!! … okay, I watched the At Issue panel from CBC’s The National and they planted that thought in my head.
https://youtu.be/W28SNuq97No
They (Chantal Hebert, I think) were also the ones who originally pointed out for me the concentration of power in PM’s office. Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.
The provincial premiers, one of them being in charge of Quebec, will start flexing when the feds are weak too. https://x.com/francoislegault/status/1876314451844243493 Time to watch international (as in UK & France… plus b) news to find out what’s happening in Canada.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jan 7 2025 15:52 utc | 5

I can’t really speak on this but on money and health I would think that at a minimum it refers to being locked out of bank accounts and otherwise hounded by the political correct and/or the state (which is not conductive to good health).
All due to what in essence was nothing much more than strike action by workers. Instead of such fascism one’s supposed to agree to talk in good faith (under guidance of a supposedly non-partial/independent office third party) to solve or mitigate the issues in return for letting basic/crucial services function.
Maybe it only affected a tiny percentage of the population but many more would have taken notice of the new totalitarian “lay of the land” and how little any fair words and platitudes were worth in practice.
No money and no rights quickly turns into no health.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 7 2025 15:54 utc | 6

Identifying Starmer, Trudeau, Macron or Scholtz with the “left” is sheer nonsense. They are all dyed in the wool neo-liberals, satraps of imperialism, zionists, partisans and supporters of Ukrainian fascism and enemies of everything that the ‘left’ has stood for more than a century.
What we are seeing is the crumbling of capitalism’s last political mask- identity politics and r2p colonialism- and the stark revelation of an obscenely ugly imperial system without a scrap of clothing to cover its cannibal shamefulness.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2025 15:36 utc | 1
In the last G 7 meeting last month Trudeau was asked about Canadians, because of the infamous carbon tax , not being able to food on the table for the family..
Socks responded, “Well it is more important to save the earth”.
Unbelievable!

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 15:59 utc | 8

Just to be particular, isn’t that “native of India” in the photo, the super-famous actor and film producer, Shah Rukh Khan?

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jan 7 2025 16:01 utc | 9

well, there are more horrible leaders that canada has lined up… just wait!! we have no real leadership here in canada! non whatsoever..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 16:04 utc | 10

bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7
This is bang on. To describe the right-wing shyster Starmer and Macron as leftwing is lunacy. Look at their policies not how they describe themselves.
Great to see bevin posting again after the total degeneration of the forum due to moronic trolls posting.

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 7 2025 16:04 utc | 11

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 7 2025 16:04 utc | 12
yup. comment section has gone to shit. for a very long time. niveau like the duran boys, pandering to a certain micro section with confused “conservative” politics. “trump fighting deep state” blabla blabla nonsense. trudeau is gone, so what?! you think he won’t be replaced by another useful stooge serving a section of our capitalist overlords?? fucking hell!

Posted by: v | Jan 7 2025 16:12 utc | 12

Nothing fake about his ‘wokeness’. Wokeness is an intentionally created religion/ideology/mental illness designed to destroy western civilization.

Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2025 16:13 utc | 13

Posted by: team10tim | Jan 7 2025 15:43 utc | 2
“Starmer and Macron to go. A stunning rebuke for the left in most of western civilization”.
Complete rubbish. None of these creeps are of the ‘left’ – they are all neo-liberals, not excepting Starmer, who is as right wing as many in the tory party.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 7 2025 16:14 utc | 14

Perfumed exceptionalism still stinks. The commonwealth nations deserve better than these pretty dictators. Trudeau didnt want to do the YMCA dance with Trump. Protest resignation. THey come in do the job the NWO hired them to do then resign like donkey lips in NZ Ukraine war out and genocide in in two weeks. Thats what they pretend anyway. Hard for Canada with its Banderist infiltration which is almost as bad as USAs zionist infiltration. Almost being the key word.

Posted by: ergy | Jan 7 2025 16:18 utc | 15

Posted by: bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7
Apologies – you got there first and better. I should have read the comments further.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 7 2025 16:18 utc | 16

“Trudeau was of little importance to people outside of Canada.”

He also was of little importance to people inside Canada… because he, politicians, and politics in general, have no effect on people’s day-to-day lives.
It’s the same with spectator sports, TV, theater, etc. — all just entertainment to keep the masses occupied and arguing/fighting among themselves instead of directing their energies against the ruling class.

Posted by: Mark Mosby | Jan 7 2025 16:18 utc | 17

Trudeau is irrelevant. He is a pretty-boy sock puppet brought in by the rich via massive propaganda and donations and glowing press coverage, to wage war on the working class. Like Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama, or Macron in France etc. In particular the rich are using excessive immigration to force Canada’s population up at a vastly excessive rate, which ALWAYS has the same effect: wages and living standards for the many are driven down, and rents and profits for the few are driven up (it’s called supply and demand). Having served his purpose, Trudeau will simply be replaced by some other neoliberal whore who may or may not be superficially different in style but at core will be exactly the same.

Posted by: TG | Jan 7 2025 16:22 utc | 18

All governments fall, didn’t Biden’s government fall? Oh no, that was just another election, only the US gets another election, maybe Russia, but every other countries governments are “falling” FGDR….now we have Falling Government Derangement Syndrome, in the west, it’s called electing a new government. Happens on regular set basis all the time, with some coalition exceptions. If Singh had not supported Turdeau’s gov, it would have fell many budgets ago.
Cheers M
…..those cheering Trudeau’s demise will rue the day the WEF’s conservative candidate Polliviere(sp) takes power…..as we Gnomes say, “tis the divil ya don’t know.”

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 7 2025 16:25 utc | 19

I realize that the current crop of woke globalist politicians are “left” in name only, and that politicians like Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders who represent the traditional left get crucified by their own parties.
But, what should be call the neoliberal, neocon, globalist, woke, warmongering elites? “Left” is short and convenient. I’m open to suggestions.

Posted by: team10tim | Jan 7 2025 16:30 utc | 20

Bevin is correct.
Neoliberalism from 2008 until now has tried to create hegemony through identity politics. The failure of that project of capitalist class consolidation is now giving way to authoritarian neoliberalism, national conservatism, etc. Support for Zionism, US imperialism and free market capitalism will persist, because the capitalist class remains in charge. Trudeau is a great example of how neoliberals pave the way for far-right political movements. Neither faction of the ruling class will substatively address working-class needs. The Canadian system will continue to degenerate just like the American and European models. Canada is too integrated into the degenerate and cannibalistic US empire.
That religious/conservative family which moved to Russia has no understanding of the structural forces at work in the Canadian political economy and corridors of power. Highlighting their fantasies as an enlightened political option is silly and embarrassing for this site.
Trudeau

Posted by: Huh | Jan 7 2025 16:33 utc | 21

Identifying Starmer, Trudeau, Macron or Scholtz with the “left” is sheer nonsense….
Posted by: bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7
I concur. The political illiteracy of persons who wrongly conflate liberals,
democrats and labour as “the left” is wearying.

Posted by: nwwoods | Jan 7 2025 16:38 utc | 22

As long as highest finance capital reigns and follows Caesar’s old dictum of “Divide and Conquer, Divide and Rule” in which an alleged “right” is theatrically position versus an alleged “left”, we The People will have no rights left.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2025 16:40 utc | 23

Robert Hope | Jan 7 2025 16:13 utc | 14
“Wokeness is an intentionally created religion/ideology/mental illness designed to destroy western civilization.”
Sigh, please get back to your Tate, Rogan, Peterson or whatever channel that caters to gullible Trumper neanderthalers.
It’s clear you have nothing to offer here except moronic platitudes.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 7 2025 16:42 utc | 24

I thought Canada was a real country until Justin became PM.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 7 2025 16:42 utc | 25

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 16:04 utc | 11
I agree with you.
As others have said, Trudeau was nothing but a puppet for the ‘globalists’ who has worn out his usefulness and was becoming a danger to their hold on power. They are now trying to replace him with another ‘globalist’ loyalist, Christia, Carney, Foreign Affairs Barbi? As I’ve commented before, this whole charade, set off by Christia, reminds me of the Kamala/Biden caper.
I can only hope that Canadians will see these traitors for what they are, and send them to the dustbin of history at the next election.

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 7 2025 16:55 utc | 26

Ed-
Remain in your delusions.
I learned long ago not to bother arguing with idiots.

Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2025 16:59 utc | 27

Walking away while getting away with Murder – doesn’t make it ! All these WEFers need to be on Death Row. Or wore.

Posted by: GMC | Jan 7 2025 17:03 utc | 28

“Nothing fake about his ‘wokeness’. Wokeness is an intentionally created religion/ideology/mental illness designed to destroy western civilization.”
Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2025 16:13 utc | 14
Best sentence I have read today!

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:06 utc | 29

“Ed-
Remain in your delusions.
I learned long ago not to bother arguing with idiots.”
Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2025 16:59 utc | 29
I second that motion!

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:07 utc | 30

The selection committee who installed Justin Trudeau, wanted the same obedience that they got from Biden. Trudeau, a pretty boy, of mediocre credentials and intelligent, who sole asset was his father’s last name (not the Cuban, the Jesuit).
Little understood outside Canada, the Truckers were the face of a lot larger protest against the Trudeau/Freeland dictates of confrontation, not compromise, over Covid insanities, including the asinine invocation of the War Measure Act (quickly retracted after an immediate run on Canadian Banks).
Canada, like the U.S. and Europe being run into the ground by Financialization of Central Banks/Government as they monetize old assets, gift/grift the insatiable Nouveau Princes, kill the Productive Class.
Trudeau will be remembered as that brown stain on the bed sheet, impossible to wash out.
Poilievre, already publicly claiming “My Israel, right or wrong.” just another Liberal in Conservative clothing. And waiting in the WEF/Financialization Central Bank shadows, Mark (of the Beast) Carney.
Our grubby, amoral Overlords really do despise us.

Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 17:07 utc | 31

Posted by: bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7
There is no left left
All my RSPs have been spent trying to pay rent and buy groceries
I am at the end of my rope.
I do not see anything within the political sphere in Canada but cries for more mass migration from India, more poverty and more taxes.
So glad to see you here Bevin.
So many of the old barflies have fled.
Hope to see more of you in the future.

Posted by: ld | Jan 7 2025 17:08 utc | 32

“Left” and “right” are floating signifiers that mean nothing in mainstream politics. They are all firmly on the side of the capitalist ruling class — Trudeau, Poliviere (or however you spell his name), even the NDP’s Singh.
The only “left” I’m interested in is one which seeks to politically overthrow the capitalist class, and which eliminates laws that have restricted our personal and civil liberties under the guise of moral preening or clerical fascism. Canada is not so subject to the latter, yet, but a more right-wing government promises to bring in the moral hypocrites like the US’s Mike Johnson, who is in a porn-avoiding covenant with his son (!) while he covers up the fact that his fellow Republican rep. Matt Gaetz committed statutory rape and paid off women to fuck them. Creepy guys!
Canada, don’t look to the right or to the billionaires for solutions to your problems. It gets too cold up there to get rid of the welfare state, and bashing fags won’t keep you warm in the snow.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 7 2025 17:12 utc | 33

“I thought Canada was a real country until Justin became PM.”
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 7 2025 16:42 utc | 26
Canada was never a free country. Dominated by the Brits even after our ‘independence’ in 1867 we sacrificed ourselves for British interests in WW1 and WW2.
After the Brits declined after WW2, USA took us over. 78% of all Canadian exports go to the US. Even crazier when Canada sells Canadian produced oil to Canadian consumers they are obliged to use the American dollar for pricing.
Pierre Trudeau, even though his left wing politics sucked he did tell the Americans to fuck off and kept relations with Cuba even subsidized the Cuba.
Jean Chretien told the US to fuck themselves not going to the Iraq war but those little glimpses of Independence are the exceptions, not the rule.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:14 utc | 34

Posted by: bevin | Jan 7 2025 15:58 utc | 7
You are incorrect.
Trudeau is a Leftist just like his father

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:15 utc | 35

Posted by: team10tim | Jan 7 2025 16:30 utc | 21
> But, what should be call the neoliberal, neocon, globalist, woke, warmongering elites? “Left” is short and convenient. I’m open to suggestions.
Some people call them globohomos

Posted by: hopehely | Jan 7 2025 17:19 utc | 36

bevin and nwood:
“Identifying Starmer, Trudeau, Macron or Scholtz with the “left” is sheer nonsense. They are all dyed in the wool neo-liberals, satraps of imperialism, zionists, partisans and supporters of Ukrainian fascism and enemies of everything that the ‘left’ has stood for more than a century.”
I’m in complete agreement. Portraying them as the “left” works to throw opposition to neoliberalism, and its current imperial manifestation in the form of “hyperglobalization,” into the shadows. Wolfgang Streeck has written about this well in his recent “Taking Back Control: States and State Systems After Globalism.” Running all cultures through a bogus “human rights” blender is just the moralizing, cultural side of the more serious goal of smashing political forces that get in the way of control by megacorporations.

Posted by: dadooronron | Jan 7 2025 17:22 utc | 37

@ dh-mtl | Jan 7 2025 16:55 utc | 27
thanks… we have no good options here… it is quite sad.. none whatsoever… you know maxine bernier wanted to get canada out of nato, but he pulled that plank out of the ppc platform which is the one reason i would have voted for him..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 17:23 utc | 38

Jean Chretien told the US to fuck themselves not going to the Iraq war but those little glimpses of Independence are the exceptions, not the rule.
Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:14 utc | 36
That would lead me to something that only years ago I would consider only indulge as a joke, is the uk (and canada) so down that the us makes canada a us state?

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 7 2025 17:24 utc | 39

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:15 utc | 37
> Trudeau is a Leftist just like his father
Justin is not even close to Fidel. Not even to his knees.

Posted by: hopehely | Jan 7 2025 17:24 utc | 40

@ Newbie | Jan 7 2025 17:24 utc | 41
the usa is down too.. they just haven’t caught up with their arrogance and hubris..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 17:27 utc | 41

Well, I think the people who are celebrating now the fall of this superhyper-neoliberal Trudeau will soon miss him. The next “conservative” Trump-like PM will render Canada the 51 USA state. At least the situation will be clearer, since Canada is a USA lapdog anyway.

Posted by: Malú Costa | Jan 7 2025 17:37 utc | 42

Posted by: fnord | Jan 7 2025 17:12 utc | 35
Capitalism. Found in books, not in practice. Free Market Capitalism, many buyers, many sellers, freedom with Adam Smith pretensions, ignores the Money Changers.
Andrew Carnegie knew the hard work necessary to build a business, J.P Morgan knew the ease of which “currency/accounting” entries can be created to buy real assets using conjured money, thereby capturing real wealth and cash flow.
Socialism. The allocation of scarce assets by Wealthy Mandarins, immune from criticism and the market.

Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 17:37 utc | 43

Canada may have gotten rid of the woke idiot but they still have a huge problem in having the USA on their southern border 🙂

Posted by: ScreamingMonk | Jan 7 2025 17:38 utc | 44

@ Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 17:37 utc | 45
The market is a mechanism of capitalist power, the means by which capitalists control the social expenditure of labor, and generate wealth through labor’s exploitation. Allocation of resources by “mandarins” is not the only way to plan an economy – the workers themselves could do it, and decision-makers could be subject to automatic recall, or we could draft workers to do it (sometimes the best administrators, from the perspective of liberty, are people who don’t want to do the job). Democratic, even algorithmic, planning mechanisms need to be explored, but they won’t come through the existing government institutions (which are run by market liberals). They’ll come about by necessity from the bottom up as we enter into a period of protracted capitalist crisis and imperialist war.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 7 2025 17:45 utc | 45

Your comments betray your ignorance of Canada. Justin Trudeau did a good job in a difficult situation during the pandemic. Much of the economic problems we face stem from the results of this unfortunate period. However his foreign policy has been determined by our allies and lacks the independence Canada once displayed in world affairs. The case of the Hua Wei CFO’ detention was a bad start. He pandered to John Bolton on a charge that had no force of law in Canada or internationally. As a result two Canadians were imprisoned and Canadian farmers lost export sales to China.
Then came Ukraine. Canada’s policy was a sell out to our Ukrainian diaspora who have questionable roots, NATO as well as being in direct contradiction to Canadian values such as the rights of minorities. Here Justin displayed his groupie like quality which is a far cry from the independence of mind of his father. He has failed to condemn the genocide in Gaza, in this case pandering to Jewish interests at the expense of our humanity. It is time for him to go but God help us if the attack dog, Pollievre, becomes PM.

Posted by: Mike Price | Jan 7 2025 17:49 utc | 46

Perhaps our host is ill, this is some sort of fit not a settled opinion? Our host has never in my opinion showed any understanding of US politics, but this is preposterous. You cannot simultaneously claim the politicians don’t run things and that they are destroying the economy, even civilization. Not honestly anyhow. So much for that moron and his hostages in Russia. What’s the next step, tracing the secret history of adrenochrome manufacturing and sales?
The retroactive endorsement of COVID vaccine conspiracy theory (you know, COVID is either fake or man-made but the real conspiracy is the genocidal assault by vaccines on the bodily fluids of pure Americans by woke Marxists determined to destroy human culture) is embarrassing.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 7 2025 17:49 utc | 47

Bevin is correct – Canada’s Liberal Party under Trudeau is not and never was practicing “Left” politics, and using the term in this context obfuscates and confuses. Sean is correct – a powerful faction of Canada’s elites have been pressuring Trudeau for over a year to call an election so the Conservative Party can assume power and make everything measurably worse. James is correct – there are no good options.
Politics in Canada is run through the political parties rather than individuals. If the Liberal Party, centrist and mainstream, had actually lost confidence in Trudeau he would have been replaced long ago. The pressure to get him to resign and, more importantly, to call a new election, is coming from an elite consensus outside of the Liberals, and is being resisted by them – which is why the Parliament was “prorogued” to prevent an immediate non-confidence vote. Yes, this is the infighting squabble of petty neo-liberals – but something is obviously at stake, and whatever it is is not part of a presumed national debate or conversation. Similarly, there is no overwhelming popular groundswell demanding a new election, it is entirely a creation of the national newspapers, CBC etc.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 7 2025 17:55 utc | 48

As a Albertan.
My views. Just because he “resigned” doesn’t mean he’s gone. There is a chance he could be PM right up to the Oct. election. All depends on opposition parties, the will of the other Lib MPs, etc. The man is a cold sore. In the future he’ll pop up when least expected.
The Liberal party as a whole is a cancer to the Canadian people and always will be.
With the Conservatives. Many Canadians on this site will praise them… Conservatives are Wolfs’ in sheep clothing. When Harper was PM and Toews was Justice minister, I took the time to read some of the Legal jargon when the “omnibus” bills were passed. Comes down to control.. WEF stuff. Skippy is one of the clan.
NDP/Greens… Lazy Ass Grifters the whole lot.
When it comes to politics in Canada being either Federal, Provincial or Muni. governments. Once in power they become Diseased with ill thought, all opportunists with only themselves to enrich.

Posted by: heavymetal101 | Jan 7 2025 17:58 utc | 49

I had the perception right from the start, when Trudeau was selectdd as the head of the Liberal party, that Trudeau was a puppet. He was selectected because of his name and because of the goodwill attached to his father’s legacy. Some lobbying groups unrolled the red carpet in front of him and the young Trudeau jumped in, ending up as the new PM. Now he is being thrown out to the garbage can. Who’s next?
Obviously our form of democratic llfe is very weak to say the least. Then come the question eeather people are really interested in participating to some common good or are they just passive watchers of the equivalent of a hockey game? Maybe that’s why the US NED/CIA can destabilize countries by creating color revolutions, by filling the void.

Posted by: Richard L | Jan 7 2025 18:12 utc | 50

@1 Tom
Unable to draw on unemployment insurance after I was fired for not getting the vaccine, I had to cash in a small 401K to the tune of $12,000 and ate into my savings even more so after this after needing to take time off to process the whole affair. I had a ton of anger and bitterness at my government, my state, and even my co-workers and family for not supporting me.
I literally received no support from anyone other than the single coworker who joined me in conscientious-objecting to the state’s vaccine mandate who also lost his job.
This eventually led to a mental depression and mini-breakdown because I suddenly felt terrifically unmoored from the comfortable life I had up until then been enjoying. (I was primed to take over a leadership role at the place that I had been at for over seven years)
It’s all good now. The breakdown then was actually instrumental in spiritual growth that was always needing to happen. I developed a ton more empathy for people and swore off my “pull yourself up by your bootstrap” approach to success in this world. But that doesn’t mean it engendered any goodwill in me for my government.
If anything, it solidified in me further my desire to see the centralized Federal government’s, which now feeds and runs state governments, ruin.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 7 2025 18:19 utc | 51

Ten years give or take a few is the normal time span of political parties to remain in power in Canada . Trudeau’s resignation is par for the course in Canadian politics so the resignation is a normal affair. The resignation of Trudeau falls at a perilous time for Canada given the threatening 51 state rambling and tariff threats coming from an aggressive Trump. To be fair to Trudeau , he did more to advance the interests of First Nation people in Canada in his 10 years as Prime Minister than any other Prime Minister of Canada . Although many issue and rights still must be resolved , Trudeau has set a new standard of reconciliation with Canada’s First Nation people during his tenure . In many ways Trudeau was good for Canada but times have changed and Canada needs a Trump whisperer to get us through the next 4 years intact .

Posted by: Cheryl | Jan 7 2025 18:32 utc | 52

canuck | Jan 7 2025 15:50 utc | 3
Your champagne selection “La Veuve Clicquot de Ponsardin” was most appropriate.

Posted by: Liberator | Jan 7 2025 18:32 utc | 53

Trudeau might not be left. But the old left and Trudeau made clear they have a lot in common then and still now in that real popular dissent, the last examples in the west being the yellow vests and the Canadian Truckers, will not be tolerated.
The left is upset at the man sitting on the throne and not the throne itself, which it desires for itself.
That beckons the question: what the hell is the left anymore, anyway?

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 7 2025 18:36 utc | 54

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 7 2025 18:19 utc | 53
Well said.
Tom..Just another who believes, others only lives the life of his own shoes.
The Trucker convoy in Canada was due to draconian convid measures. Some had their bank account frozen, even when having “played” no part in the convoy.

Posted by: heavymetal101 | Jan 7 2025 18:38 utc | 55

canuck | Jan 7 2025 15:50 utc | 3
Your champagne selection “La Veuve Clicquot de Ponsardin” was most appropriate.
Posted by: Liberator | Jan 7 2025 18:32 utc | 55
Yes it was excellent; however my wife picked it out and bought it-she’s the one with class in the family [not a big hurdle, ewditor]

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 18:42 utc | 56

Glad to see Justin finally go. Problem is that there are no good leadership prospects. Freeland would be even worse. In the Freeland-Trudeau administration, Freeland probably ran things while he was the “pretty face”. She was to Justin as Dick Cheney was to George W. Bush in the Cheney-Bush years. She would be a seamless continuation of the Freeland-Trudeau policies. She probably had the lead on trying to overthrow the government in Venezuela w/ Juan Guaido, the Maidan coup assistance, arming Ukraine as a tool to fight Russia, etc.
Polievre is even more pro-Israel, anti-China belligerence. Carney is Goldman Sachs and Anglo Empire. Jagmeet Singh is an NDP version of Justin Trudeau – but is maybe the least bad option out of the bunch? Really not much to get optimistic about.

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 18:42 utc | 57

By the way, the US under Trump seems to be signalling retrenchment to Fortress North America:
– campaign to seed the idea of Canada as 51st state and of PM as goverernor, to integrate Canada further into the US empire.
– campaign to seed idea of Greeland independence/secession from Denmark, to annex Greenland
– campaign to reclaim control of Panama Canal
– Trump just announced wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
We really need leadership that will stand up for Canadian sovereignty and independence. The opposite of what Justin-Freeland did. Someone more like Pierre Elliot Trudeau or Jean Chretien. Is former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams still around?
Good take from Ian Welsh:
“The last real Prime Minister of Canada was Justin Trudeau’s father Pierre. He was willing to tell the US to go to hell when necessary. During one trade dispute he actually closed the border to trade flow to the US.
No PM since then has been willing to give the middle finger to the US and they have made us weaker and more dependent on America.”
https://www.ianwelsh.net/batshit-delusional-canadian-conservatives/

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 18:44 utc | 58

Athough Jean Chrétien kept Canada out of the US war in Iraq he did allow US war planes to refuel in Gander Newfoundland on their way to wage war with that country. Very shameful indeed .

Posted by: Cheryl | Jan 7 2025 18:46 utc | 59

Trudeau was elected in pretty much the most Canadian fashion possible- it’s not so much that we voted him in, more that we voted out the guy before (Harper) who himself had a pretty decent run of 8-9 years.
Now, just as people soured on Harper, same for Trudeau but he spoiled our fun by stepping down.
The bad news; Canadians don’t really care all that much about who they vote in. They really don’t, it’s more about preventing someone from the role vs giving someone the role. Since Trudeau has stepped down, we’re kind of screwed as now we actually have to use a bit of critical thinking (booo!)
MOST likely it will be Pollievre, but who can say for sure. Like several of the other commenters here I have similar reservations about him although he does (supposedly) offer some good qualities.
Regardless- whoever we vote in will keep Canada a staunch NATO ally and will dutifully jump up and down wagging their fingers and shaking their fists at Russia, China, and whomever else we are told to do so.
So, while I’m happy that Trudeau is going (it’s well past due and should have happened with the freedom convoy business, or before) Rest assured that CDA is not going to change too terribly much in the big scheme of things.
Happy to be wrong *honk honk*

Posted by: Clown Shoes | Jan 7 2025 18:46 utc | 60

@ heavymetal101 | Jan 7 2025 17:58 utc | 51
the cons are just that – cons…
@ Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 18:42 utc | 59
exactly.. no good options as i said upthread earlier..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 18:48 utc | 61

@ Cheryl | Jan 7 2025 18:46 utc | 61
harper went down to washington as head of the opposition to apologize for cretien for keeping canada out of iraq… which person/party was worse?? cons will slavishly want to be the 51st state… then there are the rest of us that want nothing to do with it..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 18:50 utc | 62

This post won’t be popular; let’s see if you can ‘handle the truth’-here it is: Leftists like to distance themselves from the multiple embarrassments of , Ardern ,Macron, Sir Starmer and Trudeau’s regimes so they have this ‘go to’ rhetorical wiggle that these politicians are not Leftists at all, but , neo-Liberals: sorry, chumps its a distinction without a difference.
I know how you feel. I am a Toronto Maple Leafs fan and they haven’t won a Cup since 1967; the Leftist government have all imploded whatever nomenclature you want to use to camouflage the obvious weakness of Leftist governments.
The only winner that you have is a tie in China. China has had a highly successful capitalist/socialist hybrid since 1978 but other than that you guys are 0-127-1 (1)
1. Calling China a tie between capitalism and socialism.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 18:55 utc | 63

> Posted by: Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 18:42 utc | 59
Jagmeet Singh is an NDP version of Justin Trudeau – but is maybe the least bad option out of the bunch?
Of course he is. If he can get us the free dental care that would be great.
At least his promises are concrete, measurable and with real positive impact on our life.

Posted by: hopehely | Jan 7 2025 18:58 utc | 64

Unable to draw on unemployment insurance after I was fired for not getting the vaccine
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 7 2025 18:19 utc | 53

Sheesh, that’s cold. Glad you came out well, best wishes.
The mealy-mouthed chekists nowadays are even more repulsive than the originals.

Posted by: pessoa | Jan 7 2025 19:00 utc | 65

Canadian Cents@60…..no fan of Harper but during his second term he actually reaffirmed Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty to the US, which was quite a refreshing surprise.
Cheers M
…..poor old Trump’s in for a surprise about taking over Canada, just the language barrier alone, we have, well all the Native languages, then Tagalog, Hindi, Sikh, Pig Latin, Newfanease….east, west and central English, Quebec French, French French, Metis French/English/First Nation, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Hebrew and a host of Middle Eastern dialects not including the African dialects….

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 7 2025 19:10 utc | 66

Isn’t this, along with other resignations, similar to the Department Heads having to resign prior to a new administration coming in. The new administration will either re-appoint them, or appoint their successors.

Posted by: mpn | Jan 7 2025 19:12 utc | 67

trudeau is gone, so what?! you think he won’t be replaced by another useful stooge serving a section of our capitalist overlords?? fucking hell!
Posted by: v | Jan 7 2025 16:12 utc | 13

Half thread distracted by branding and other half celebrating the likely promotion of… lol, you guys know it will be Chrystia right?!

Posted by: Rae | Jan 7 2025 19:16 utc | 68

⚠️⚠️– explore this please:
>https://x.com/i/grok/share/6UFlt17lLY6lNZTyoArOJesyt
The link is genuine, while Gr@k’s words and rhetoric are totally amazing.
https://x.com/swwright89/status/1876618513974280411

Posted by: Jean-Marie Mazaleyra | Jan 7 2025 19:17 utc | 69

Anyone who describes Trudeau as a leftist is obviously mentally unhinged. He is a dyed-in-the-wool neoliberal with pronounced populist tendencies. Unfortunately, there are many who confuse North American ‘progressiveness’ with ‘leftism’. In reality, they are antipodes, the former cultivating hyper-individualism, the latter focussing on social commonalities, such as class belonging. The former has largely prevailed in the West. Wokeism has brought the concept of minorities / protection against discrimination to absurdity by turning it into an exclusively individual-identity concept and has now transformed itself in a horrific dogmatism. Socio-economic status doesn’t matter, wear fancy socks does.
Trudeau’s presumed successor will adopt Tronald’s tendencies and govern in an ecologically and economically indolent manner. No improvement is to be expected. By the way, it is always wrong to personalise politics.

Posted by: Pnyx | Jan 7 2025 19:17 utc | 70

I’m looking forward to Juan Guaido as the new Canadian PM. 🙂

Posted by: JulianJ | Jan 7 2025 19:20 utc | 71

Re Trudeau hatred, to this outsider, he appears to be neither as crazed as Trump nor as senile as Biden. I’ll trade you, two for one!

Posted by: lester | Jan 7 2025 19:23 utc | 72

“Starmer and Macron to go. A stunning rebuke for the left in most of western civilization.”
Anyone who thinks starmer, macron or trudeau are of the left needs to have a serious think about how they understand the policical spectrum
Absolutely mind blowing that anyone can think war mongering neoliberals are part of the policical left

Posted by: Biggpapi | Jan 7 2025 19:25 utc | 73

Posted by: canuck | Jan 7 2025 17:07 utc | 32
I expected nothing better from you.
I can picture you in your truck with your don’t tread on me rag.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 7 2025 19:29 utc | 74

OK, now that that is out of the way, when is Alberta joining the USA?
You know what they say about Alberta, anyhow? “It’s still America up there!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yXzZTYjUl0
Come on over to a real country. We like roughnecks. Drill, baby, drill! Oh…and there will be less Keystone silliness, when it’s all domestic anyhow. Oh…and you won’t have to learn French. Come on, over, ‘berta!

Posted by: Anonymous | Jan 7 2025 19:31 utc | 75

When Justin ran in 2015, promising electoral reform, I fell for it, held my nose and voted Liberal for the first (and last) time in my life. Had always voted NDP. When they reneged on that, after spending a lot of my tax money on a sham consultation with Canadians, it was the start of my decline into complete cynisism about ‘democracy’. Had to laugh when he responded to a reporters question, that not getting electoral reform done was his biggest regret.

Posted by: FLENQC | Jan 7 2025 19:31 utc | 76

Just out of curiosity a question for the Canadian Barflies. What kind of party is the NDP anyway?
The little I know about it (or its leader, Singh) it always reminded me of our the Linke (“left”) party in Germany. Moderate left, social democratic, sometimes with nice takes maybe? But ultimately too weak and not socialist enough to even come close to changing the system for the better. And also too strongly focussed on identity politics.

Posted by: Roland | Jan 7 2025 19:50 utc | 77

All very predictable trump and his supporters sold out to the elite capatalists.
Or as i like to call them right wing facist scum.
Ignorent knuckle heads.
Elon musk and his money has arrived and they all fall into line and start goose stepping and hial hitlering.
Jus like the banderite right wing did, licking the jews boots.
Canada
France
Germany
England
Moon of alabama
You get the picture.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 7 2025 19:54 utc | 78

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 16:04 utc | 11
That is really sad to hear.
So, Pierre Poilievre “common sense” talk is just hot air?
Only asking because I’m completely clueless about the political situation in Canada on account of not reading MSM.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 7 2025 20:01 utc | 79

Anarchy is leftist, Democracy is leftist. Anti-war, Anti-corporate power, anti-banksters, anti-Wall Street, anti-pollution, anti-fascism is leftist. Leftists are for peace, freedom from tyranny…
The warmongering Democrat Party in the US and the warmongering parties anywhere are not leftist. They are right wing. “Conservative” is
another stupid moniker. They don’t conserve anything. They just endeavor to conserve their se*ual deviance in the closet.
Fascism is right wing. Fascism is collusion btw government and big business. The Oppressive Security/Surveillance Police State is right wing.
There are no leftists among US Democrat Party or the Liberal Party in Canada. There are frauds like Sanders and AOC. Frauds like Trudeau.
Mainstream Democrats like Biden and Pelosi are not the left/leftist.
Nixon was more leftist than any mainstream Democrat of today.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Jan 7 2025 20:01 utc | 80

Posted by: Pnyx | Jan 7 2025 19:17 utc | 72
Well said. I remember reading about the hijacking of popular labels by the intelligence agencies either here or on The Saker.
“Left”, “Green”, “Woke” are just a few examples of bastardizing these (ideals/labels, for a lack of better term) so they bore no semblance to their original intent.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 7 2025 20:11 utc | 81

@ Rae | Jan 7 2025 19:16 utc | 70
the ukee fascist hag chrystia gets all the support from the usual suspects, in combo with canucks ignorance, so there is that.. yeah.. we’ll see… she might get the lib leadership thingy, but she won’t win it… we have many more ignorant canucks who can’t think past yesterday and will vote for the con guy.. watch and see.. we are screwed either way..
@ Suresh | Jan 7 2025 20:01 utc | 81
poilievre is completely vacuous and stands for nothing on the surface, but corporations and what is good for the moneyed interests underneath… he hasn’t committed to any platform which ought to tell people he is a typical horrible bs politician, but because everyone wants ” a change” he will get the vote… he is completely vacuous – an empty vessel for use by the elite powers pulling the strings… canucks are just as stupid as everywhere else in the world..

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 20:17 utc | 82

No, no ! Agent Provocateur is some seriously tasty lingerie ! The Kylie Minogue pub was
Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | Jan 7 2025 18:05 utc | 548 from the last Ukraine tread.
Salut! What’s your take about these shenanigans?

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 7 2025 20:20 utc | 83

****
Thanks b for not deleting my prior comment to the bar AGAIN. This is much needed by the barflies to help navigate their next 5-7 years….

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 7 2025 20:21 utc | 84

*****
Spoke too soon!

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 7 2025 20:22 utc | 85

So the Nazi adjacent Freeland is one of the contenders for party leader and I would be surprised if she were (s)elected to the position

Posted by: nwwoods | Jan 7 2025 20:28 utc | 86

*NOT be surprised

Posted by: nwwoods | Jan 7 2025 20:29 utc | 87

The right wing grunts are being prepped for a wider nato war against Russia and the middle east.
Look at the state of them, they’l only be to pleased to jump into a muddy trench and die for a flag.
‘Public perseption manigment’ in action.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 7 2025 20:31 utc | 88

.those cheering Trudeau’s demise will rue the day the WEF’s conservative candidate Polliviere(sp) takes power…..as we Gnomes say, “tis the divil ya don’t know.”
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 7 2025 16:25 utc | 20
Hmmm…quite the saying from the Old Country of the Fairies, now the new county of the Fairies. And Diversity.
When you can’t find the Devil perhaps he resides a bit closer than ya think. From Priests buggering children to looking the other way as your women and children are being diversified by Foreign Countries’ Diversity Gangs. What an improvement.

Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 20:39 utc | 89

Posted by: Mike Price | Jan 7 2025 17:49 utc | 48
**Your comments betray your ignorance of Canada. Justin Trudeau did a good job in a difficult situation during the pandemic. Much of the economic problems we face stem from the results of this unfortunate period.**
Bullshit…Your ignorance of what truly went on during the “pandemic” scam is showing. That period you had a government in power that grossly abused the Canadian people. To say a good job?? pathetic. Look up ArriveCAN scam or Randy Paul Andrew Boissonnault. (and there are many more.) These group of Liberals took billions $$ to enrich their own and buddies pockets.
Western Standard has an article showing how much $$ actually went into the “pandemic”…very little.

Posted by: heavymetal101 | Jan 7 2025 20:40 utc | 90

@ nwwoods | Jan 7 2025 20:29 utc | 89
yeah – that is one of her top values – standing up for ukraine (and the ukraine diaspora here in canada – her grandpappy worked for the nazis), while wrapped in the oun flag.. kid you not.. like i said – canucks are stupid and i am one of them…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-nationalist-scarf-1.6372995

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 20:41 utc | 91

@63 james, agreed.
@66 hopehely, agree that dental care should be part of healthcare. I haven’t heard the NDP positions on Gaza/Palestine/Israel – presumably due to our so-called “news” media – but hopefully it’s better than the Liberals and Conservatives …
@68 sean, ya really wasn’t a fan of Harper either, yet somehow Justin wasn’t much better. Wish Canada would focus more our own coasts, including the Arctic, but in today’s news I saw that CTV News was once again on a Canadian military ship all the way over in the East China Sea, deliberately sailing toward China’s coast until they provoked the desired expected reaction that they could “report on” as “news” that is really just blatantly obvious propaganda waged against Canadians. Our so-called “journalists” don’t even have the integrity to tell us that their “report” was essentially commissioned under the Freeland-Trudeau government/governorship for an expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda exercise to provoke another country on the other side of the world. Shouldn’t our money and effort be spent establishing our own sovereignty, instead of abdicating our sovereignty to US hegemonic aggression projects?
@79 Roland, I only know a little about Linke from some YouTube clips of Sahra Wagenknecht when she was still with Linke. The NDP is on the left, but the current leader, Jagmeet Singh is no Sahra Wagenknecht unfortunately. He’s more like another version of Justin Trudeau. At least on foreign policy, the NDP seem to have become the Liberals Lite, instead of differentiating themselves.

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 20:45 utc | 92

Charlie Angus for Prime Minister (NDP)! Poilievre will be just another arrogant millionaire/billionaire trying to strip Canada of its benefits: universal health care, paid for pensions, unemployment insurance (paid for by the workers), et al. Poilievre has never held a working man’s job, he’s a political clown through and through. PS I have not voted for Trudeau.

Posted by: Jim Miles | Jan 7 2025 20:58 utc | 93

Kupkee @ 91
Your right about the priests.
But wrong very wrong about the diversty gangs as you call them.
A racist police polacy of inaction against grooming gangs in england, deliberatly to whip up race hate. Lasting 18 years and counting. Sucssefully now.
Smoke and mirrors, dont fall for it.
The police are racist. Simple.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 7 2025 21:01 utc | 94

Your comments betray your ignorance of Canada. Justin Trudeau did a good job in a difficult situation during the pandemic. Much of the economic problems we face stem from the results of this unfortunate period.
Posted by: Mike Price | Jan 7 2025 17:49 utc | 48
Beg to differ, mon ami. The SARS virus, sent from Canada to the U.S. Fort Detrich base, outlawed for modification (“gain of function/aka weaponization) inside the U.S. then sent by Fauci and friends, to Wuhan, spliced and modified, leaked (deliberately/accidentally) in China.
Then WEF/WHO officials declared “Pandemic” and our Mini-Dictator Justine jumped, clicked his heels and followed his instructions. “2 weeks (years) to flatten the curve”, masks, jabs, serum (not a vaccine).
Trudeau is a last name, a grinning banshee. A loser. Pearson kept Canada out of Vietnam, not Pierre, sr. and Chretien, for all his faults kept Canada out of the Bullsheet Iraq War.
Justine? A blot, a blip, lessened Canada. Never received much more than 20% of eligible votes in the last election. No Mandate. Period.

Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 21:04 utc | 95

Have to agree with TG’s comment @19. Says volumes about our so-called “democracy” in the Western world …

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 21:18 utc | 96

Wonder if the flip between Liberals to Conservative is going to be as savage as the reverse that happened in the 90’s, that nearly obliterated the Conservatives in Parliament?

Posted by: Milites | Jan 7 2025 21:19 utc | 97

Justin, the bastard son of Fidel, performed as expected.
WEF indoctrinated him to the max, and then unleashed him on the Canadian public, who amazingly took nearly ten years to finally reject his globalist agenda.
As a true fascist, Justin launched himself on a doctrinaire fascist agenda which included strict censorship of the media, attacks on faith communities, seizure of all modern civilian firearms, jailing and bankrupting political opponents, using the military to repress the truckers strike, engaging in covid lockdown madness, giving away billions to Ukronazi forces, and protecting Nazi war criminals……….quite a consistent record of fascism.
A more disgraceful scoundrel can not be imagined. He needs to stand trial for repression…..LOL

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 7 2025 21:27 utc | 98

@ Canadian Cents | Jan 7 2025 21:18 utc | 98
yes to TG’s comments @ 19 as well… how do you spell WEF?? trudeau in a nutshell…

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2025 21:29 utc | 99

Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2025 21:04 utc | 97
You also have the Health Canada(Winnipeg)/China connection. Dead doctor in Africa. etc.

Posted by: heavymetal101 | Jan 7 2025 21:31 utc | 100

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