Is it possible to find a sweeter deal?
And the pension is so good.
And then I can consult and double dip.
WE really need to get rid of this guy
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And the pension is so good.
And then I can consult and double dip.
Justin Trudeau, your time is up, you need to leave now
In scathing letter, Freeland explains why she is stepping down as Trudeau takes Canada down the wrong path.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Dec 16, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Justin Trudeau, your time is up. For the good of your party, the good of your country, the good of the Canadian people, it’s time to leave.
Quite frankly, your time has been up for a long time now, you’ve just refused to listen. The Canadian people have made it clear that they are done with you leading the country.
Chrystia Freeland’s decision to resign as finance minister, and to upbraid you and your policies on the way out the door, is just the latest sign that you have overstayed your welcome. There are now reportedly 60 Liberal MPs calling on you to step down, joining millions of Canadians who feel the same way.
You have ignored the public polling, you have defied those in your own party, some of your own advisors and others who have told you to go graciously.
Rather than leave graciously, you have clung to power in the false belief that you are uniquely positioned to save Canada. Your messianic complex — where you view yourself as the only person who can rescue Canada from the problems our country faces — is clearly clouding what little judgment you have left.
The most recent public polls have your party tied with the NDP, a fall from grace that should be an embarrassment for any political leader.
Ipsos puts Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives at 44% voter support, that is more than the 21% your Liberal Party is receiving even after combining it with the 21% supporting Jagmeet Singh and the NDP. Your support among women, once one of your strongest voting blocs is now down to 20%, that’s half of the 40% of women who say they will back Poilievre and the Conservatives.
Support for you and your party in British Columbia, a province once key to your electoral success, is down at 15%. In fortress Quebec, your Liberal Party is polling at 24%, behind the Conservatives at 25% and the Bloc Quebecois at 32%.
Just 14% of voters aged 18-34 say they will support you in the next election, while 42% of this same age bracket say they will support Poilievre.
You and your government are weak, wounded and ineffective. At a time when we need strong national leadership, you are unable to provide it.
This is another reason that you should step down or call an election as soon as possible.
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening Canada with 25% tariffs, a fact that requires a strong and capable leader. You are not capable, and you are definitely not strong at this point — a fact that is not lost on Trump or his supporters, who continue to ridicule you in public.
Here at home, you preside over a government that has not been able to move its agenda through the House of Commons due to a scandal. How bad are the documents in the Green Slush Fund Scandal that you allowed the House to focus only on that issue for the entire fall sitting rather than release the documents, as the Speakers and the Commons ordered, so that you could move government bills?
You have driven Canada’s finances into the ground.
Long gone is your promise of three small deficits of $10 billion. We now have structural deficits that will take years to tackle once a new and fiscally responsible government is back in charge.
This year, we are spending more on debt service charges than the federal government spends on health care. Debt service charges are more than double what we spend on our military.
Canadians are struggling under higher costs of living than we have seen in decades. Food prices are up 25% over where they were three years ago, rents have doubled during your time in office, and the dream of home ownershipp has evaporated.
Crime is up, especially violent crime, and your justice reforms have turned our court system into a revolving door that releases repeat violent offenders as quickly as police arrest them.
It’s shocking that in the face of this, you are still hanging on, convinced that voters will reward you with another government.
They won’t; it’s not about to happen.
What is shocking is that 21% of the population would still vote for you despite your abysmal record.
As you head into the Christmas break, Mr. Trudeau, do us all a favour. Take some time to reflect on the facts laid out above, and then devise a plan to step down.
The sooner, the better.
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In scathing letter, Freeland explains why she is stepping down as Trudeau takes Canada down the wrong path.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Dec 16, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Justin Trudeau, your time is up. For the good of your party, the good of your country, the good of the Canadian people, it’s time to leave.
Quite frankly, your time has been up for a long time now, you’ve just refused to listen. The Canadian people have made it clear that they are done with you leading the country.
Chrystia Freeland’s decision to resign as finance minister, and to upbraid you and your policies on the way out the door, is just the latest sign that you have overstayed your welcome. There are now reportedly 60 Liberal MPs calling on you to step down, joining millions of Canadians who feel the same way.
You have ignored the public polling, you have defied those in your own party, some of your own advisors and others who have told you to go graciously.
Rather than leave graciously, you have clung to power in the false belief that you are uniquely positioned to save Canada. Your messianic complex — where you view yourself as the only person who can rescue Canada from the problems our country faces — is clearly clouding what little judgment you have left.
The most recent public polls have your party tied with the NDP, a fall from grace that should be an embarrassment for any political leader.
Ipsos puts Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives at 44% voter support, that is more than the 21% your Liberal Party is receiving even after combining it with the 21% supporting Jagmeet Singh and the NDP. Your support among women, once one of your strongest voting blocs is now down to 20%, that’s half of the 40% of women who say they will back Poilievre and the Conservatives.
Support for you and your party in British Columbia, a province once key to your electoral success, is down at 15%. In fortress Quebec, your Liberal Party is polling at 24%, behind the Conservatives at 25% and the Bloc Quebecois at 32%.
Just 14% of voters aged 18-34 say they will support you in the next election, while 42% of this same age bracket say they will support Poilievre.
You and your government are weak, wounded and ineffective. At a time when we need strong national leadership, you are unable to provide it.
This is another reason that you should step down or call an election as soon as possible.
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening Canada with 25% tariffs, a fact that requires a strong and capable leader. You are not capable, and you are definitely not strong at this point — a fact that is not lost on Trump or his supporters, who continue to ridicule you in public.
Here at home, you preside over a government that has not been able to move its agenda through the House of Commons due to a scandal. How bad are the documents in the Green Slush Fund Scandal that you allowed the House to focus only on that issue for the entire fall sitting rather than release the documents, as the Speakers and the Commons ordered, so that you could move government bills?
You have driven Canada’s finances into the ground.
Long gone is your promise of three small deficits of $10 billion. We now have structural deficits that will take years to tackle once a new and fiscally responsible government is back in charge.
This year, we are spending more on debt service charges than the federal government spends on health care. Debt service charges are more than double what we spend on our military.
Canadians are struggling under higher costs of living than we have seen in decades. Food prices are up 25% over where they were three years ago, rents have doubled during your time in office, and the dream of home ownershipp has evaporated.
Crime is up, especially violent crime, and your justice reforms have turned our court system into a revolving door that releases repeat violent offenders as quickly as police arrest them.
It’s shocking that in the face of this, you are still hanging on, convinced that voters will reward you with another government.
They won’t; it’s not about to happen.
What is shocking is that 21% of the population would still vote for you despite your abysmal record.
As you head into the Christmas break, Mr. Trudeau, do us all a favour. Take some time to reflect on the facts laid out above, and then devise a plan to step down.
The sooner, the better.
LILLEY: Justin Trudeau, your time is up, you need to leave now
Resigns as finance minister hours before release of her economic statement while blasting Trudeau and the direction he's taking the country.
Resign, prime minister, or call an election
Author of the article
ostmedia News
Published Dec 16, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Through his incompetence and arrogance, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is playing Russian roulette with the economic lives of Canadians and sending a clear signal to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump that his Liberal government is in chaos.
The Liberal party Trudeau leads is consumed by political infighting, with the PM, cabinet ministers and MPs more concerned with their own political futures than the good of the country.
If Trudeau truly cared about the country, he would have resigned Monday or called an election, so that the next prime minister of Canada would have a clear mandate to negotiate with Trump from a position of strength.
Instead, Trudeau spent the day without speaking to Canadians about the chaos that reigned in Ottawa on Monday after his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from cabinet on the day she was to deliver the fall mini-budget.
Tired of being humiliated by leaks from within the Trudeau government questioning her competence and, she said, being told by Trudeau on Friday he was going to replace her as finance minister, Freeland quit cabinet, but not before firing a rocket aimed at Trudeau’s credibility.
In a statement on X, Freeland said that while the Liberal government should be taking the economic threat posed by Trump’s tariffs “extremely seriously” and “keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war,” Trudeau was focused on, “costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.”
“Costly political gimmicks” defines the Trudeau government as evidenced by the fact that the fall economic statement released Monday put last year’s federal deficit at $61.9 billion — 54% higher than the $40.1 billion deficit Freeland said was necessary to maintain “Canada’s responsible fiscal anchor” in her 2024 budget released in April.
If Trudeau won’t quit, then NDP leader Jagmeet Singh must join with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Quebrcois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet to defeat the Trudeau government on a confidence motion at the earliest opportunity.
Singh said Monday that Trudeau, his former political ally, must resign, but would not say definitively whether he would vote to defeat the Liberals on a confidence motion.
torontosun.com
Author of the article
ostmedia NewsPublished Dec 16, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Through his incompetence and arrogance, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is playing Russian roulette with the economic lives of Canadians and sending a clear signal to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump that his Liberal government is in chaos.
The Liberal party Trudeau leads is consumed by political infighting, with the PM, cabinet ministers and MPs more concerned with their own political futures than the good of the country.
If Trudeau truly cared about the country, he would have resigned Monday or called an election, so that the next prime minister of Canada would have a clear mandate to negotiate with Trump from a position of strength.
Instead, Trudeau spent the day without speaking to Canadians about the chaos that reigned in Ottawa on Monday after his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from cabinet on the day she was to deliver the fall mini-budget.
Tired of being humiliated by leaks from within the Trudeau government questioning her competence and, she said, being told by Trudeau on Friday he was going to replace her as finance minister, Freeland quit cabinet, but not before firing a rocket aimed at Trudeau’s credibility.
In a statement on X, Freeland said that while the Liberal government should be taking the economic threat posed by Trump’s tariffs “extremely seriously” and “keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war,” Trudeau was focused on, “costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.”
“Costly political gimmicks” defines the Trudeau government as evidenced by the fact that the fall economic statement released Monday put last year’s federal deficit at $61.9 billion — 54% higher than the $40.1 billion deficit Freeland said was necessary to maintain “Canada’s responsible fiscal anchor” in her 2024 budget released in April.
If Trudeau won’t quit, then NDP leader Jagmeet Singh must join with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Quebrcois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet to defeat the Trudeau government on a confidence motion at the earliest opportunity.
Singh said Monday that Trudeau, his former political ally, must resign, but would not say definitively whether he would vote to defeat the Liberals on a confidence motion.
EDITORIAL: Resign, prime minister, or call an election
Through his incompetence and arrogance, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is playing Russian roulette with the economic lives of Canadians
He. Is. Not. Going. Anywhere!
Are you surprised? He’s not even talking to you. You — the public, the people, the voters, the men and women who thought that democracy entitled them to demand of their leader an accountability. He’s laughing at you.
Suck it up, the worst is yet to come.
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A Liberal source with knowledge of the situation, but who was officially not authorized to speak publicly about the discussions, confirmed to The Canadian Press that Trudeau is reflecting with his inner circle on what to do next.
Trudeau has cancelled his year-end interviews with news outlets and has yet to publicly discuss Freeland's departure, Parliament has risen for the year, & doesn’t sit again until the last week of January in 2025.
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Another Liberal source with ties to Trudeau's inner circle but not in government said the prime minister's team is trying to sort out a path forward for him, and characterized that as "definitely operating in a manner to assert" having him continue on as leader.
If he stays, Trudeau has “some” damage control to do in his caucus, with “some”suggesting at least one-third of Liberals MPs now want him to resign.
Are you surprised? He’s not even talking to you. You — the public, the people, the voters, the men and women who thought that democracy entitled them to demand of their leader an accountability. He’s laughing at you.
Suck it up, the worst is yet to come.
Michael Higgins: Don't worry Canada, Trudeau's not going anywhere — National Post
The worst is yet to come
Trudeau has cancelled his year-end interviews with news outlets and has yet to publicly discuss Freeland's departure, Parliament has risen for the year, & doesn’t sit again until the last week of January in 2025.
Trudeau weighs his options as his path to stay on as prime minister narrows — The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering his options after Chrystia Freel
If he stays, Trudeau has “some” damage control to do in his caucus, with “some”suggesting at least one-third of Liberals MPs now want him to resign.
Loonie slumps to COVID-era low as political risk mounts
Author of the article:Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Anya Andrianova
Published Dec 17, 2024 • 2 minute read
The Canadian dollar slid to its lowest level since March 2020 as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government slips into crisis after the shocking resignation of his finance minister.
The currency extended its recent losses to slide another 0.4% on Tuesday past 1.43 per U.S. dollar, the weakest level since the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered cities. The loonie has been declining as the U.S.’s northern neighbour’s economy lags and officials struggle to come up with a plan to respond to President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
The latest political turmoil “is symptomatic of the greater troubles facing the currency with the economy underperforming the U.S. — and now facing the threat of tariffs,” said Skylar Montgomery Koning, a foreign-exchange strategist at Barclays. “We see continued pressure on the loonie.”
On Monday, Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist who’s been finance minister since 2020, stepped down from her post with a letter that laid out her opposition to the prime minister’s push for short-term spending on voter-pleasing measures like tax breaks that expand the budget deficit. After Trump’s victory in the U.S., Freeland was picked to lead a cabinet group to develop a strategy to respond to U.S. policies.
Trump has threatened tariffs of 25% on Canada, which Deutsche Bank strategist Michael Puempel sees as more likely to be enacted following the recent political angst.
“Simply put, unless there is more stability in Canadian political leadership, we believe Trump is likely to maintain his maximalist approach to trade with one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners,” he wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. He said his base case is that Canada has an early election in the first quarter of 2025 and ends up with tighter fiscal policy.
For the loonie, that’s only adding to pressures as the Bank of Canada lowers borrowing costs — leading markets to anticipate a widening interest-rate gap with the U.S.. Earlier on Tuesday, inflation fell below the central bank’s target for the second time in three months, offering vindication for policymakers’ aggressive cuts.
The currency has fallen more than 7% against the U.S. dollar this year so far, on path to have the worst year since 2018.
The Canadian dollar “is suffering devaluation by a thousand cuts,” wrote Kit Juckes, head of currency strategy at Societe Generale, in a Tuesday note. “The Bank of Canada has taken away rate support, tariff uncertainty weighs and the government is struggling to stay unified.”
—With assistance from Carter Johnson.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Anya Andrianova
Published Dec 17, 2024 • 2 minute read
The Canadian dollar slid to its lowest level since March 2020 as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government slips into crisis after the shocking resignation of his finance minister.
The currency extended its recent losses to slide another 0.4% on Tuesday past 1.43 per U.S. dollar, the weakest level since the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered cities. The loonie has been declining as the U.S.’s northern neighbour’s economy lags and officials struggle to come up with a plan to respond to President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
The latest political turmoil “is symptomatic of the greater troubles facing the currency with the economy underperforming the U.S. — and now facing the threat of tariffs,” said Skylar Montgomery Koning, a foreign-exchange strategist at Barclays. “We see continued pressure on the loonie.”
On Monday, Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist who’s been finance minister since 2020, stepped down from her post with a letter that laid out her opposition to the prime minister’s push for short-term spending on voter-pleasing measures like tax breaks that expand the budget deficit. After Trump’s victory in the U.S., Freeland was picked to lead a cabinet group to develop a strategy to respond to U.S. policies.
Trump has threatened tariffs of 25% on Canada, which Deutsche Bank strategist Michael Puempel sees as more likely to be enacted following the recent political angst.
“Simply put, unless there is more stability in Canadian political leadership, we believe Trump is likely to maintain his maximalist approach to trade with one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners,” he wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. He said his base case is that Canada has an early election in the first quarter of 2025 and ends up with tighter fiscal policy.
For the loonie, that’s only adding to pressures as the Bank of Canada lowers borrowing costs — leading markets to anticipate a widening interest-rate gap with the U.S.. Earlier on Tuesday, inflation fell below the central bank’s target for the second time in three months, offering vindication for policymakers’ aggressive cuts.
The currency has fallen more than 7% against the U.S. dollar this year so far, on path to have the worst year since 2018.
The Canadian dollar “is suffering devaluation by a thousand cuts,” wrote Kit Juckes, head of currency strategy at Societe Generale, in a Tuesday note. “The Bank of Canada has taken away rate support, tariff uncertainty weighs and the government is struggling to stay unified.”
—With assistance from Carter Johnson.
Loonie slumps to COVID-era low as political risk mounts
The Canadian dollar slid to its lowest level since March 2020 as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government slips into crisis.
Like any prime minister of Canada, Trudeau retains immense and largely unchecked power to keep his job even if nobody wants him anymore.
However this scandal plays out, if Trudeau doesn’t leave on his own accord, there’s actually little to stop him from unilaterally governing the country by executive fiat until the federal government runs out of money.
The first thing playing to Trudeau’s advantage is that there’s no mechanism for the Liberal Party to forcefully turf him from power.
As per the party’s official constitution, leadership votes can only be held if a leader dies or contests an election in which they fail to “become or continue to be the Prime Minister.”
This would be different if the Liberal caucus had ever adopted the terms of the Reform Act; a 2014 bill under which party leaders would be plunged into a leadership review (like the Conservatives with O’toole, but that’s a different non-Liberal story) if just 20 per cent of their MPs signed a form demanding one.
As of press time, about 50 Liberal MPs have publicly called for Trudeau to step aside – about one third of his 154-member caucus. However, since the Liberal caucus has never voted to follow the terms of the Reform Act, none of these calls have any material effect on Trudeau’s tenure.
What dissident Liberals could do instead is simply tell Trudeau that they will no longer support him in the House of Commons. They could threaten that if Trudeau remains party leader, they will abstain at the next confidence vote and allow his government to fall.
In fact, even the NDP could (but won’t) do that, give that Trudeau commands a minority government. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh could feasibly demand that if Trudeau is still the prime minister at the next session of Parliament (scheduled to resume on Jan. 29), he’ll pull his party’s support and allow the government to fall…but…Feb 25th…so…
However, it’s notable that neither the NDP or any dissident Liberals are threatening as much. Only the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are calling for a federal election — everyone else is simply requesting that Trudeau voluntarily pass the torch to a new Liberal prime minister. Surprise-surprise…
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(Singh, in fact, was quite explicit in saying that Trudeau “has to go” while refusing to commit to a non-confidence motion.
)
However this scandal plays out, if Trudeau doesn’t leave on his own accord, there’s actually little to stop him from unilaterally governing the country by executive fiat until the federal government runs out of money.
The first thing playing to Trudeau’s advantage is that there’s no mechanism for the Liberal Party to forcefully turf him from power.
As per the party’s official constitution, leadership votes can only be held if a leader dies or contests an election in which they fail to “become or continue to be the Prime Minister.”
This would be different if the Liberal caucus had ever adopted the terms of the Reform Act; a 2014 bill under which party leaders would be plunged into a leadership review (like the Conservatives with O’toole, but that’s a different non-Liberal story) if just 20 per cent of their MPs signed a form demanding one.
As of press time, about 50 Liberal MPs have publicly called for Trudeau to step aside – about one third of his 154-member caucus. However, since the Liberal caucus has never voted to follow the terms of the Reform Act, none of these calls have any material effect on Trudeau’s tenure.
What dissident Liberals could do instead is simply tell Trudeau that they will no longer support him in the House of Commons. They could threaten that if Trudeau remains party leader, they will abstain at the next confidence vote and allow his government to fall.
In fact, even the NDP could (but won’t) do that, give that Trudeau commands a minority government. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh could feasibly demand that if Trudeau is still the prime minister at the next session of Parliament (scheduled to resume on Jan. 29), he’ll pull his party’s support and allow the government to fall…but…Feb 25th…so…
However, it’s notable that neither the NDP or any dissident Liberals are threatening as much. Only the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are calling for a federal election — everyone else is simply requesting that Trudeau voluntarily pass the torch to a new Liberal prime minister. Surprise-surprise…
FIRST READING: How far Trudeau could go in clinging to power — National Post
In an extreme case, he prorogues parliament and walls himself up in the PMO until the federal government goes broke
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The banks which are Canadian in name only want Trudeau to stay so they can unabatedly continue to squeeze regular Canadians for their last nickel.Like any prime minister of Canada, Trudeau retains immense and largely unchecked power to keep his job even if nobody wants him anymore.
However this scandal plays out, if Trudeau doesn’t leave on his own accord, there’s actually little to stop him from unilaterally governing the country by executive fiat until the federal government runs out of money.
The first thing playing to Trudeau’s advantage is that there’s no mechanism for the Liberal Party to forcefully turf him from power.
As per the party’s official constitution, leadership votes can only be held if a leader dies or contests an election in which they fail to “become or continue to be the Prime Minister.”
This would be different if the Liberal caucus had ever adopted the terms of the Reform Act; a 2014 bill under which party leaders would be plunged into a leadership review (like the Conservatives with O’toole, but that’s a different non-Liberal story) if just 20 per cent of their MPs signed a form demanding one.
As of press time, about 50 Liberal MPs have publicly called for Trudeau to step aside – about one third of his 154-member caucus. However, since the Liberal caucus has never voted to follow the terms of the Reform Act, none of these calls have any material effect on Trudeau’s tenure.
What dissident Liberals could do instead is simply tell Trudeau that they will no longer support him in the House of Commons. They could threaten that if Trudeau remains party leader, they will abstain at the next confidence vote and allow his government to fall.
In fact, even the NDP could (but won’t) do that, give that Trudeau commands a minority government. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh could feasibly demand that if Trudeau is still the prime minister at the next session of Parliament (scheduled to resume on Jan. 29), he’ll pull his party’s support and allow the government to fall…but…Feb 25th…so…
However, it’s notable that neither the NDP or any dissident Liberals are threatening as much. Only the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are calling for a federal election — everyone else is simply requesting that Trudeau voluntarily pass the torch to a new Liberal prime minister. Surprise-surprise…
(Singh, in fact, was quite explicit in saying that Trudeau “has to go” while refusing to commit to a non-confidence motion.FIRST READING: How far Trudeau could go in clinging to power — National Post
In an extreme case, he prorogues parliament and walls himself up in the PMO until the federal government goes broke
After the sub prime scam Canadian banks cleaned up on US banking assets for pennies on the dollar opening American Divisions. Of course execs are swapping chairs across the border.