Justin Trudeau updates: Canadian Prime Minister set to resign
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce his resignation today, according to multiple reports. Follow Newsweek's live blog for updates.
"If I have one regret... I do wish we had been able to change the way we can elect governments in this country," he said, referring to his hopes to changing the voting system.
I mean you could have actually tried to do the thing you were elected to do...
As a non-Canadian, what exactly did this guy do to become so unpopular? You don't need to write an essay, just some bullet points or something.
There has been quite a bit, but some notable stuff:
Here's a more extensive list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Justin_Trudeau_controversies
He made clear in his initial campaign that he would do electoral reform and implement proportional representation… until he was in and realized that First Past the Post would keep his party in power. He lost all support of the young and progressive voters.
Recently (since 2020), he's been blamed for a lot of things that are outside of his jurisdiction and are being done by (mostly conservative/right-wing) premiers (aka. governors?).
E.g...
In Ontario, these things have been mercilessly mismanaged by Doug Ford. Doug Ford pointed the finger at Trudeau and people are it up. No idea how we're this stupid, but we keep giving Ford a majority government and blaming Trudeau for Ford's problems here.
Before 2020, I wouldn't say Trudeau was ever really hated or unpopular, at least not universally. He was our "at least it's not the other guy" guy. But now the people who haven't been paying attention (and don't understand politics) are being mobilized by the far-right, and a lot of people think his first name starts with an F.
Quick version: Being a centre (centre right) party, the liberals make nods to leftist ideas but don't actually change the laws because it's very expensive if you don't tax the rich. So everything stays status quo while they say it's going great.
On top of that, far right people hate Trudeau a lot.
Far right people hate almost everyone else a lot.
It's encoded in their DNA.
It's not really anything he did, more about things he didn't do. Such as address the housing problems, do anything substantial about wealth inequality, take a stand against genocide, revive Canada's economic competitiveness, rein in the oligopolies that run the country, stop climate change, balance the budget, end all disease and hunger worldwide, and bring about lasting world peace.
People just got tired of all the empty rhetoric, and have decided that what we need is a slightly more sarcastic and bitter form of empty rhetoric as the opposition offers.
President-elect Donald Trump is continuing his trolling of Canada as he reacts to Trudeau’s announcement.
Trump in a social media post has again called Canada the “51st state.” He also incorrectly claimed that Trudeau resigned because Canada relies on subsidies from the United States to stay afloat. https://apnews.com/live/justin-trudeau-canada-prime-minister
Dear America,
Can you get this cunt under control already, please and thank you.
Canada
Terribly sorry, that ship sailed on the 5th of November, 2024
It turns out that running against the patriarchy is a big lift. Sorry Canadian brosefs we'll try again in 4 years, god-willing.
Would if I could, friend.
The lemmy world admins have made it clear we aren't allowed to respond to that question.
Every time you slightly suggest Trump needs to be taken care of, the milquetoast liberal mods remove it. Like Trump will just go away with thoughts and prayers.
Hey, I'll give him some props; this is when you should resign, not halfway through a campaign for reelection. Now Liberal at least has a chance to find someone new to beat Pierre, since Trudeau had no shot.
