As Canadians struggle with an economy still dealing the effects of inflation, an affordability crisis, a housing crisis and rising unemployment, fear not, Justin Trudeau is looking out for you by speaking to other global celebrities.
Trudeau is in New York this week at the United Nations and, just to make sure everyone sees that he’s there, he’ll make an appearance on the Stephen Colbert show on Monday night.
On Sunday, Trudeau gave a speech to the United Nations Summit of the Future symposium, and no one was there to hear. He spoke to a mostly empty room with scant applause.
That’s probably a good thing because it was really a domestic political speech delivered at the UN complete with his slogans such as “fairness for every generation.”
“We know that confident, successful countries invest in their citizens, in their workers, in their middle class,” Trudeau said, taking his latest campaign statement out for a test drive on the international stage.
He went on to brag about $10-a-day child care, the school food program that he’s been promising for the last year but that has yet to feed a single child. He spoke about fighting climate change and middle-class jobs and his government’s “ambitious housing plan that will deliver good, abundant and affordable homes.”
It’s a good thing he wasn’t taking questions or being fact-checked. Has anyone seen these “abundant and affordable homes?”
Prior to Trudeau heading to New York, he was rubbing elbows with other members of the global left wing elite in Montreal at the Global Progress Action Summit. This is a summit hosted by Trudeau’s favourite think tank, Canada 2020, an organization started by his close friends and often funded by Canadian taxpayers.
It acts as a sort of clearing house for “progressive” ideas for the Trudeau government.
At this year’s summit were both of Trudeau’s finance ministers, Chrystia Freeland, his actual finance minister and Mark Carney, his unofficial finance minister and economic advisor to the Liberal Party and several very wealthy companies controlled by billionaires.
Today’s socialists have a taste for the finer things in life, after all.
Also at this Montreal summit was former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, a close ally of Trudeau’s on the world stage. When Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s PM in January 2023, she was deeply unpopular with voters and within her own party, much like Trudeau is now.
Unfortunately, unlike Ardern, Trudeau can’t read the room and realize it is time to go.
He’s too busy enjoying rubbing elbows with his friends on the global stage. He’s too busy boasting about how much better he is making your life while he remains completely detached from the reality of everyday Canadians.
It’s why in the House of Commons last week when asked about Canada’s economic performance and the impact it is having on the population, Trudeau was out to lunch. He didn’t want to talk about the rising unemployment rate or the shrinking GDP per capita — Canada is now at the same level we were in 2017, meaning we are getting poorer as our American neighbours get richer.
Instead, Trudeau wanted to cite reports from the International Monetary Report or the G7. I’m sorry, but Canadians can’t eat and IMF report tells us, “Hey, forget about what you are dealing with, on a macro level Canada is doing great!”
This is why this time of year is Trudeau’s favourite — he’s on the international circuit.
From Montreal he went to New York, he’ll come back to Ottawa for a week or so and then it’s off to Paris next week, then Laos and Samoa. Who cares about Red Deer or Timmins when you are sitting in Paris with all your progressive buddies telling you how great you are.
Trudeau should enjoy this year’s summit season because one way or another, it’s going to be his last as prime minister.