EDITORIAL: Trudeau’s political legacy is a disgrace

Published Jan 06, 2025  •  Last updated 0 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday, Jan.6, 2025. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, after putting himself before his country, comes far too late to fix the enormous political and economic damage he has caused Canada.

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Because of his arrogance and narcissism, there are no good options for Canada going forward at a time when we’re under threat of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump imposing a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods, following his Jan. 20 inauguration.

At a time when Canadians need a strong, united and competent federal government to counter this threat, what we have is a governing political party in chaos, its members more concerned with their political futures than the good of the nation.

We give zero credit to Liberal MPs who stood behind Trudeau while he made himself the dominant political story — would he stay or would he go? — in Ottawa, typical of the drama queen he always has been.

Their widespread calls for Trudeau to quit came only when the polls showed the Liberals were in danger of being obliterated in an election, were he to remain as their leader.

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They came far too late to undo the political chaos caused by Trudeau’s increasingly arrogant and bizarre behaviour, which they enabled by their silence.

Another enabler of Trudeau’s antics was NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who spent months denouncing the Liberals in the morning before propping up their minority government in the afternoon.

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Similar to the Liberal caucus, by the time Singh joined the growing calls for Trudeau to resign, it came far too late to undo the damage his support of Trudeau already had caused.

That said, the main culprit in this sorry affair was Trudeau, since the only person who could fire him was Trudeau himself.

Instead, he mocked the will of the majority of Canadians who, according to the polls, wanted him to quit, by refusing to address them directly until Monday, especially following the resignation of his finance minister and deputy prime minister, instead playing hide and seek with the public.

Finally, even with his belated resignation, the internal machinations of the Liberal party as it replaces him will dominate Canadian politics for months when it should be focused on Canada’s affordability crisis and the threat of U.S. tariffs.

That’s Trudeau’s political legacy.

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