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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:
Justin Trudeau reduced poverty — especially child poverty — in Canada to unprecedentedly low levels.
By 2019-2020, he had returned Canada to low levels of unemployment not seen since the early 1970s, and even higher levels of employment (as many fewer women were in the workforce during the post-war boom).
Trudeau’s government, unlike its Conservative predecessors, brought in the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and subsequently enacted many measures in response to this tragedy: https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1470140972428/1534526770441
Trudeau negotiated revisions to NAFTA which strengthened the Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA), ending the capacity of American corporations to use Chapter 11 (of NAFTA) to sue or threaten to sue Canada, and opting instead for a regime of regulatory cooperation. Trudeau was in that regard the strongest defender of Canada’s national rights since Diefenbaker in the early 1960s.
Trudeau, in his first term, overturned neo-liberal notions of “sound finance”, returning Canada in the midst of recession to robust growth.
Canada, under Trudeau, acted earlier and more robustly than any other developed nation, excepting perhaps Hungary and Russia, to guarantee sufficient stocks of COVID vaccines for the entire population (compare Canada’S results against Australia’s for example); he also massively invested, just two years ago in health care transfers to Canada’s provinces and territories.
Trudeau successfully negotiated relations between Canada’S English- and French “facts”, promoting inter-provincial collaboration and equality between the linguistic groups.
During COVID, he successfully devolved/respected public health authorities for epidemic response to the provinces and territories, while boosting these jurisdictions financial capacity to support the fight against the pandemic. At the same time, he brought in highly successful funding for individuals, households and businesses which very effectively returned the economy to health, and which enabled the broader population to reduce significantly their private debt.
During the COVID 19 pandemic, he was very strongly supported by the virtual ENTIRETY of Canada’s truckers and transport industry, barring a tiny minority of cross-border truckers who did not want to follow Canada’s international COVID regulations — the behaviour was denounced by the overwhelming majority of their colleagues. When they, and other American-funding truckers invaded the Capital, trapping invalids in hospitals, Trudeau’s government let the protest continue (while assisting those at risk) for over 8 weeks, before using emergency powers to liberate access to Parliament for all Canadians. While this latter move has been denounced by a tiny set of populist, and often neo-N aligned, right-wingers, it found favour with the vast majority of Canadians. Had such a protest occurred in any European country, let alone France or Germany or the UK, anti-terrorism forces would have spilled blood and killed many. Not a single death, and the one women knocked over by a police horse was a Canadian Mohawk women, protesting against the will and desires of the Algonquin people who are the traditional owners of the land where the protest occurred along the Ottawa River and its tributaries.
Perhaps most impressively, when Trudeau came to power, hundreds of very remote Indigenous communities (remoteness that only Russia can compare to) lacked clean drinking water, due to the inaction of preceding federal and provincial governments. Since the, the Government of Canada has worked with First Nations communities to achieve clean drinking water on reserves, with result that almost all communities now have clean drinking water — and all will have that by the time of the next “scheduled” election in the fall of 2025.
By all these measures, although Trudeau make a great many mistakes in foreign policy, he has to be considered one of Canada’s greatest prime ministers, and superior to almost any leader of any developed country since 2016.
Posted by: Pearce Tournier | Jan 7 2025 22:06 utc | 108
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