Alexander Brown is a Director with the National Citizens Coalition, and the writer of the best-selling Acceptable Views newsletter on SubstackWhen we here at the National Citizens Coalition launched our leading third-party ‘Fire Trudeau’ election advocacy campaign in the early days of 2024, the messaging we chose was in response to a phrase we heard over and over again from supporters and the public.Talk to a farmer in Saskatchewan, they’ll tell you their number one priority is, “firing Trudeau.” An oil and gas worker in Alberta? “Fire Trudeau.” A young Canadian professional who was given no hope of owning a home under thoughtless, soaring immigration and failed housing starts? “Fire Trudeau.”The phrase was a rallying cry as much as a cry for help. But now that he’s fled the scene for the holidays, leaving his cabinet, caucus, Parliament, and the country in shambles (and with time to consider taking that “walk in the snow” while on the rainy shores of Tofino,) the NCC wishes to make one thing abundantly clear.After ruining our economy, denying entire generations hope, and unleashing crime, chaos, and “post-national” disorder in our streets, Canadians deserve to Fire Trudeau at the polls.If he’s held on this long, if he’s so sure of the transformative efforts that have saddled the majority of Canadians with a lost Liberal decade, he needs to face judgment like a man, and to not shirk from his long-awaited sentencing.Just as Chrystia Freeland should be considered no hero for acting purely out of self-interest after being told she was being fired, Trudeau would deserve no praise for staying on to the bitter end to receive 25-50 seats, and the humbling he so deserves. But in handing Canadians the opportunity to fully hold him to account, it would be his first quasi-noble act in nine long years.Everywhere one looks, his legacy lies in ruin. Thanks to domestic pressure and threats from the president-elect south of the border, the Liberals are scrambling to correct for a porous open border, and problems of rampant unvetted immigration. The premiers are in open revolt, and doing his job for him. The Liberals are even considering changes to their catch-and-release bail policies that have put every Canadian at risk.We’ll fire the Liberals and their spineless NDP partners soon, that is for certain, but nothing would be as satisfying as an emphatic win for Canada on election day, and a loss for Justin Trudeau.After country-breaking failures on housing, healthcare, immigration, the carbon tax, inflation, affordability, public safety, and institutional wokeism and the desecration of our national symbols and pride, Trudeau can finally offer Canadians the one thing that will actually make their lives better: a good, clean, political death.Forget that walk in the snow, or in the British Columbia rain. We demand an election, not a resignation. Nothing less will do.Alexander Brown is a Director with the National Citizens Coalition, and the writer of the best-selling Acceptable Views newsletter on Substack.
