If Justin Trudeau is going to ‘Crash & Burn,’ What costume would he wear?

petros

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In the wake of their surprise loss to the Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s going to remain laser-focused on helping Canadians through tough economic times. LAZER-FOCUSED

Cabinet ministers such as Chrystia Freeland and his long-time friend, Marc Miller, said Trudeau is best positioned to lead the Liberals into the next election and they support his decision to do so.

Of course, that raises the question of what’s going to be different about the Liberals after the byelection compared to before the byelection?

On the issue of whether Trudeau will in fact lead the Liberals into the next election, we don’t know.

It could be true. It could also be true that Trudeau will say he’s leading the party into the next election up to the moment he announces he won’t, because the moment he announces he won’t, be becomes a lame duck.

Similarly, cabinet ministers like Freeland and Miller are going to say they stand behind Trudeau and agree with his decision to lead the party into the next election for as long as Trudeau says those are his intentions.

Any cabinet minister publicly calling for Trudeau to resign now would be accused of disloyalty by the Liberal caucus — even those who don’t want Trudeau to lead them into the next election, etc…

Given the results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection and a year of dismal national polls compared to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, how are the Liberals going to be different going forward than they were in the past? Anyone?

Put another way, what have they learned, given that they keep keep saying they understand the message Canadians are sending to them?

Is it that they’ll “Double-Down” on the exact same things they have & haven’t been doing for the past nine years — expanding the welfare state using borrowed money they don’t have, or more accurately, that we don’t have?

This in the hopes that a year from now when their supply-and-confidence agreement with the NDP ends — which is the only thing keeping them in power (looking at you & your pension Jagmeet) — the economy will be in better shape leaving Canadians more well-disposed to the Liberals?
Laser hair.

 

Jinentonix

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Tough economic times he says? Funny that because he was lecturing some city mayor about how Canada has a AAA credit rating (which it does) and has the best performing economy of the G7. I guess that depends on the parameters he uses.

But the thing is, he's made times tough FOR Canadians. People don't give a shit about how great the economy is supposedly doing when more and more of them are struggling just to pay the most basic costs of living.