To read the multitude of articles written by big-shot Liberals, fans of Justin, former fans of Justin, enemies of Poilievre, and a whole bunch of others who are just beginning to read the room, all that needs to be done is replace Trudeau with a new Liberal Party leader and the world will be A-OK once again.
Wrong again – so very wrong.
For darlings of the lefty press to state that Trudeau can resign with dignity, and that he will be revered for his work as prime minister, that he has done a terrific job, that his legacy will be that of a man who might have made a few errors but was on the right track all along, and that a fickle and ungrateful Canadian public just got a little tired of him after nine years in office is so much codswallop that one gets sick just reading it.
The stuff coming out of the PMO-paid press in Ottawa and Toronto is not only sickening, it is wrong, and devilishly attempting to alter the facts.
The fact is that Trudeau has led the most incapable, wrong-headed and misguided government in the history of Canada.
And it is not the fault of anyone but himself, when he stated at the outset of his reign that Canada was going to be the first post-nationalist country, and that he thought that this was good.
He then proceeded to destroy an immigration system that was a model for creating a society that welcomed the best and the brightest, those with skills that Canada needed to advance in the world.
Instead we now have what is not quite yet a “post-nationalistic society,” but a society that is becoming unhinged, and mean and rudderless.
It’s a society that people outside of Ottawa and the chattering classes no longer recognize as Canada.
Trudeau pleads that he has not finished his work, his task, and that he should be allowed to stay on. Please don’t stay on Prime Minister – we can still repair the damage you have caused, if you leave asap.
Liberal MPs are just now realizing they have allowed this to occur, and are now howling for a new leader – but they are missing the point.
What is needed is a wholesale shift in direction. Coupled with an admission that they have totally screwed up and a plea for forgiveness.
That will not change the course of history unfolding as you read this. Canadians are not about to trust any political party that has wreaked such damage as has the Liberal Party.
But at least such a new direction will be the start of the rebuilding of a party that has been taken hostage by the ineffective and cruel “climate-change-fighting” policies of a misguided man who obviously still sees himself as the chosen person to lead a nation to glory.
What he has neglected is the fact that “post-nationalistic” countries cannot be lead, by definition. They simply atrophy.
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And what he does not realize is that his policies and methods have been left behind by even his once-closest allies – just look at his new Cabinet. Where are the solid, reliable stalwarts who once backed him?
Canada is perilously close to becoming a decrepit, socialistic, government-led and government-dependent piece of geography, drowning in debt.
Trudeau is now like an aging hipster, still sporting bell-bottoms and a Beatles’ haircut.
Time not only to have a new prime minister but a new government that recognizes the new world.
The best is yet to come.
– Stephen LeDrew is the former president of the Liberal Party of Canada and host of the Three Minute Interview on YouTube