Terence Corcoran: It's time for the abdication of King Trudeau II

financialpost.com:

Through more than eight years since Justin Trudeau named his first Liberal cabinet on Nov. 4, 2015, Canada’s economic and social trajectory has been steadily downward, a trend that was entirely predictable.  I can say this … because I predicted it.

A Post reader recently sent me an image of a column on the front page of the Nov. 5, 2015, edition of the National Post that aimed to counter the burbling optimism surrounding the rise of King Trudeau II as the leader of a New Canada. “King Trudeau is a charming man who seems to believe his own rhetoric and in his promises. It will be painful to watch if, as seems likely, his rhetoric gets run over by reality.”

Reality will continue to swamp the Liberal regime through 2024 and beyond. The reasons for gloom in 2015 are even more evident today. The wars in Gaza and Ukraine bring new economic and political troubles, but they are overshadowed as causes of Canadian decline by deep and fundamental flaws in the Liberal ideological agenda.

It is that agenda, based on a persistent belief in centralized government control to shape economic and social activity, that is systematically putting Canada’s economic future at risk. The 2023 year-end commentaries in media and elsewhere produced a catalogue of Ottawa’s interventionist policy blunders — from carbon taxes to immigration and housing, from fiscal mismanagement to expanding industrial strategies, electric vehicle mandates, critical mineral subsidies and a blizzard of regulatory interventions to control corporate competition and media practices.

In 2015, 30 cabinet ministers were appointed, each handed a detailed “mandate letter” filled with broad instructions and micro directives personally signed by the Monarch. Over the years