Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday, Jan.6, 2025.  Photo Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

Canada is finally stumbling forward politically.  The nightmare of the Justin Trudeau Liberals is ending.  Voters desperately want relief from a government that has hurt the nation.  Even voters who want them gone from office, don’t yet realize how bad the Liberal administration has been for society, the magnitude of the financial corruption, and how deep are the wounds of strife they have brought.  Healing the nation will be difficult and complicated.

Now that the Liberal house built on sand is being swept away, the media would have us believe it is all about Justin Trudeau and his desires and plans.  The sad truth is that he is the mere symptom and projection of a self-serving voter class that tells its lies into the wind.  The conversation of the political chattering class now revolves around the fate of one flawed man.

Trudeau said, "I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process.  Last night, I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that process. This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I am having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election."

The Prime Minister asked the Governor General for Parliamentary Prorogation, so business is temporarily suspended until Parliament reconvenes on March 24.  The move means opposition parties can’t trigger an election with a non-confidence motion before the Liberals have a new leader, as all parliamentary business has stopped.

Trudeau lost his political caucus support from Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada.  The Trudeau days are over.  Fortunately, Canada is a country of law, social rules, and enough Christian cultural foundation that most Canadians will work it through to an agonizing yet reasonable outcome, unlike the international scene.

Trudeau says he is going.  Yet he is still dragging us around inside the jail yard as we wait for the gates of freedom to open with an election.  The farcical political march must stop; the outside world goes on. 

Our government must turn its attention to nation-building.  One in ten Canadians uses food banks.  Too many people are jobless and homeless.  We are drowning in debt.  It may get worse for a time.  President Donald Trump threatens to impose 25% tariffs on our exports.  His additional promise to deport 10 million illegal aliens could see a wave crashing our border.  The Prime Minister and his Cabinet do not have the mandate and skill to deal with this. There will be no real difference between the Liberal Party Canada now, and the Liberal Party that will emerge with a new leader.

Canada needs the ready and waiting Conservatives to govern, like the adults we need.  They can meet the internal and international challenges, and begin healing our wounds.  

Trudeau and his complete Caucus need to leave, and the Liberal Party needs to find an acceptable reason to exist. The new Liberal leader will be announced on March 9.

We need an election to put Canada first.