Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada

Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

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President of Georgia: Incumbent Disputed between Salome Zourabichvili and Mikheil Kavelashvili since 29 December 2024; Mikheil Kavelashvili was elected as the new president on 14 December 2024 by the ruling party and sworn in on 29 December 2024. It was the first indirect election in Georgia's history after the constitutional amendments changed the electoral system in 2017. Opposition parties, Georgian constitutional experts, living former presidents of Georgia, as well as parts of the international community consider Kavelashvili's presidency illegitimate and maintain that Salome Zourabichvili continues to be the president.
Georgia is undergoing a constitutional crisis due to the disputed legitimacy of the October 2024 Georgian parlimentary election, which was conducted with significant irregularities. The crisis escalated with the unconstitutional self-convening of Parliament, the decision of the ruling party to suspend EU accession negotiations, the election of a new president by the disputed Parliament, and the 29 December 2024 inauguration of Mikheil Kavelashvili by the disputed Parliament.
As a football player, Mikheil Kavelashvili was a striker who notably played in the English Premier League for Manchester City and in the Swiss Super League for a range of clubs. He also played for Dinamo Tbilisi and Spartak Vladikavkaz. He was capped 46 times by the Georgian national football team, scoring nine goals. Kavelashvili was the second former professional football player to become a country's president, following the election of George Weah as President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024.
Zourabichvili left the official presidential residence, Orbeliani Palace, on 29 December 2024, when Mikheil Kavelashvili was inaugurated. She said however that she remained the legitimate president. She was quoted saying "This building doesn’t belong to anyone, this building was a symbol while the President, who was legitimate, sat here. I’m taking away the legitimacy, I’m taking away the flag, I’m taking away what is your trust".
- Georgian parliamentary election, which was conducted with significant irregularities
  Has anyone actually explained the significant irregularities?
  
  The four major opposition coalitions and President Salome Zourabichvili stated that the elections were carried out with vote-buying, ballot-box stuffing, intimidation and pressure on voters. They accused Georgian Dream of "stealing the election", with Zourabichvili refusing to recognize the official results, which she called illegitimate. The opposition announced that it was going to boycott the new parliament.
  
  So, all the evidence available is that the opposition "stated" that?

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