Diane Francis: No sunny days under Trudeau
Will someone please offer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a job? Preferably, a nice sinecure at an NGO in another country that’s subsidized by Liberal donors.
The Canadian electorate — and now even his NDP sidekick Jagmeet Singh — are fed up with him. Earlier this month, Singh pulled out of a deal to prop up the Liberals, then ensured their political survival by pledging not to support a non-confidence motion that, if passed, would trigger an election. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the same.
“New Democrats came to Ottawa to get stuff done, to work for people, to fight for people, not to play Pierre Poilievre‘s games,” Singh said. “We’re not going to let Pierre Poilievre tell us what to do.”
An election must be held a year from now by law, but Trudeau’s departure cannot come soon enough. He won’t resign, despite terrible polls, because he doesn’t have any career prospects. It now appears that he will make a deal with the separatists to stay in power.
The Trudeau years from 2015 to 2024 will be known as Canada’s “lost years.” Trudeau’s policies have unnecessarily bruised the country’s main wealth generator: resource production. His immigration policies have been hare-brained and contributed to the housing affordability problem and the crisis in health care.
Then there’s the “alarming state of federal finances,” as described by Fraser Institute analysts Jake Fuss and Grady Munro in April.
“The Trudeau government tabled its 2024 budget earlier this month and the contents of the fiscal plan laid bare the alarming state of federal finances. Both spending and debt per person are at or near record highs and prospects for the future don’t appear any brighter,” they wrote.
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