FILDEBRANDT: Vain. Vile. Vacuous. Trudeau was too cowardly to face the music

A teary-eyed and weepy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the coward's way out today, denying Canadians the opportunity to cast direct judgment on his leadership at the ballot box. It was inevitable. Trudeau II has been a zombie prime minister for well more than a year now, and it has been glaringly obvious to all but himself and the most delusional of TruAnons. The pressure was overwhelming, but it was allowed to take this long — leaving Canada dangerously exposed at a moment of national crisis — because the even more cowardly Liberal caucus refused to do the obvious thing and remove him. Instead, they released anonymously signed, kindly worded letters "asking" Trudeau to "consider" maybe, eventually, retiring. Well, they ran out of time last year to replace their leader in a way that would have allowed for an orderly transference of power and kept even a glimmer of hope for hanging onto government. They waited until now — until Canada faces an existential economic threat from Trump tariffs, until Liberal corruption coverups have completely paralyzed Parliament, and until Liberal polling sinks to apocalyptic depths — to finally do what the entire country knows needed to happen a long time ago. The Liberals have failed to win the most votes in two straight elections under Trudeau and since Pierre Poilievre became Conservative leader, have seen their already low poll numbers collapse into lows never before seen by that party in the history of Canada. Canadians have wanted and needed an election for well over a year, but NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has cynically propped this government up the entire time. He has promised to vote non-confidence in Trudeau eventually, but only after his gold-plated pension vests at the end of February. Trudeau did Singh a solid favour in his resignation speech by proroguing (suspending) Parliament until March 24, sparing the beleaguered NDP leader from the humiliation of continuing to vote confidence in the Liberals until that magic pension date is reached.It went without much mention from the government-funded media that Trudeau himself decried Stephen Harper's 2009 prorogation of Parliament as the actions of an authoritarian dictator. Sauce for the goose...Canadians will cast judgment on this government — and Trudeau's legacy — this year and will likely punish the Liberal Party in a historic fashion, but they will be denied the right to cast their ballot on Justin Trudeau himself. He will be gone. He weepily told reporters that he was putting the country first by stepping down but that's a lie, and he knows it. If Trudeau had any chance of staying on as Liberal leader, he would have. If Trudeau had any sense of putting the country first, he would have called an election today so that Canada had a functioning, democratically legitimate government that could negotiate with Trump when he was sworn in as president on January 20.Instead, the Liberals will spend the coming months on an internal leadership race to select their very own Kim Campbell to take the fall.But wait, there's more. The federal government will run out of money when the fiscal year ends on March 31, and so the new Liberal prime minister will have to pass a speech from the throne and a budget in those seven days, both of which are confidence votes, and for all intents and purposes, impossible. If the opposition parties fail to accede to this blackmail and keep them in power, the Liberals will blame the whole thing on them. So, after the Liberals spend months selecting and transitioning to a new leader, Canada will likely spend five weeks in an election. That takes us to May 5th. The transition from prime minister Chrystia Freeland or Mark Carney to Pierre Poilievre will likely take another two weeks before they are even sworn in, taking us to late May. This means that Canada will have no functioning federal government for the next half a year, while Donald Trump throws over the table of our economic and political relationship. In the moment of Canada's deep economic peril, the Liberals will play games to extend their grip on power for just a few more months, all with the collusion of Jagmeet Singh for his pension. Canada is governed by a class of deeply vane, vile and vacuous fools. Their corruption and willingness to put their own interest before the country's knows no limit. They have betrayed their country for 30 pieces of silver. When judgement comes, none of them should be left.

FILDEBRANDT: Vain. Vile. Vacuous. Trudeau was too cowardly to face the music

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