Yet another woman thrown under the Trudeau motorcade.
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But how long before the wheels fall off this thing altogether and it crashes for good?
“On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the cabinet,” Chrystia Freeland wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that she posted to X. “Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet.”
And just like that, a government that is already in freefall and drowning in a $61.9-billion annual deficit with no plan to pay it has a prime minister who is clinging to power with no lieutenants left to prop him up.
Who in their right mind would come into the finance job after this?
Mark Carney?
Give up everything he already has to come in and rescue a drowning government, only to know that what awaits him is what happened to the previous two finance ministers?
Hard to imagine.
The end of the line is in sight for Trudeau in a game of chess in which he is in check. How many more moves does he have? How many more pawns can be sacrificed?
“I want you to know that I am, and always will be, a proud feminist,” Trudeau said with a straight face to the Equal Voice dinner last week. “You will always have an ally in me and in my government.”
No one believed it then and it’s hard to imagine anybody believing it now.
Not Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former justice minister fired because she stood up to Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin affair. Not Dr. Jane Philpott, who was turfed for standing up for Wilson-Raybould. Not former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, who was scolded because she wanted to announce her not running again for Parliament. Not Julie Payette, who was removed as governor general after staff complained about her working them too hard. Not reporter Rose Knight, who may have experienced her interaction with him differently, or Karen Wang, the B.C. Liberal candidate who was cancelled because of woke madness.
That all of these women were destroyed by Trudeau is troubling. But pushing over Freeland is a whole other ballgame.
She is uber-connected, she has been loyal to him including going along with freezing people’s bank accounts during the Freedom Convoy in 2022, and she also is one of the few adults in the room now who dared to talk straight to the prime minister that his $250 handout is nothing more than a gimmick at the expense of more debt.
Trudeau caucus members have a big decision to make. Why would Melanie Joly or Anita Anand want to walk down a similar plank as Wilson-Raybould, Freeland and so many others? Why would any caucus member stand for this? They must decide: Do they wait for the bell to toll on them or, on this pushing of Freeland off the ledge, do they finally speak up and yell that they will no longer tolerate the madness?
In politics, anything is possible and anything could happen here.
The one thing for sure is somebody has to tell Trudeau he no longer gets to carry the “I am a feminist” card. What is also crystal clear is there needs to be a vote of non-confidence and then a federal election where Canadians get to decide who they went running this ship and how they want it run.
It’s being run into the ground now. How much longer will Canadians and Liberals allow Trudeau to be at the wheel?
Stay tuned. The departure of Freeland is a blown tire in the main car and no one knows for sure where it will land.