The world seems like a more dangerous and uncertain place for Canada. Incoming President Donald Trump’s threat of slapping a 25% tariff on Canadian goods has jangled nerves from sea to sea. Are Justin Trudeau and his government up to meeting the challenges appearing on the horizon? Increasingly, the prime minister seems to be clinging to power, which is not a position of power.
Last week, popular YouTuber JJ McCullough wondered how Trudeau was able to continue to hang on. “The fact that our parliament cannot vote no-confidence in Trudeau, who obviously has zero public mandate to govern in this time of crisis, is a severe indictment of our democratic system,” McCullough argued. But why blame the system? The last election produced a Liberal minority government, fair and square.
Trudeau can’t survive without at least one opposition party backing him up. Don’t hate the game, hate the player. Since Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are flying high in the polls and spoiling for an early election, that leaves the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois to save Trudeau’s bacon.
McCullough comes around to that conclusion, eventually blaming NDP leader Jagmeet Singh for keeping Trudeau in power, despite Singh’s frequent criticisms of the Liberal government. This past Wednesday brought yet another example of Singh saying one thing and doing another. The NDP leader was initially critical of Trudeau’s proposed rebate cheques and GST holiday, claiming they didn’t go far enough.
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