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.
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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.