Canada needs a serious leader and it hasn’t had one for a decade.When the world mocked Justin Trudeau dancing the night away with pubescent girls while Montreal burned, the issue wasn’t that people don’t feel he has the right to enjoy a night out with his daughter. It was just that it provided a perfect metaphor for his entire term in office. Whenever large, complicated and important issues challenge Canada, Trudeau steps out and pulls some infantile stunt.Trudeau suffered a political near-death experience last month when a small caucus revolt appeared to be beginning. In a closed-door meeting, Trudeau even turned on the tears as he convinced his caucus he has a plan to pull the Liberal party back from the brink of electoral obliteration within a year. With a month to work on it, Trudeau released a grand plan to selectively give Canadians a two-month break on GST payments, while issuing cheques for $250 to selected Canadians at a cost of billions of dollars in April.Liberal caucus members surely cried themselves to sleep upon realizing just how bad the bill of goods Trudeau sold them is.Trudeau’s plan reeks of shallow political opportunism as he attempts to buy the love of Canadians with their own money. He has been doggedly claiming the GST break will help Canadians struggling with the purchases of necessities but the break doesn’t apply to necessities. Trudeau’s GST holiday applies to beer, fast food, crossword puzzles, and Christmas trees. It won’t exactly help people struggling to pay the rent.The ill-conceived policy also drops an accounting nightmare upon retailers. Now, businesses must change their accounting and billing systems to temporarily offer a break on certain items, while leaving the tax alone on others. In provinces with a blended sales tax system, the problem becomes even more nightmarish. This foolish stunt will cost untold, cumulative millions in extra bookkeeping and accounting costs for small businesses already struggling in Canada’s lagging economy while offering negligible benefits through increased sales. People won’t change their spending habits for small purchases due to a 5% break and those making large purchases will just defer them until the two-month holiday. No new sales were created and few real savings are being realized for people.The Trudeau payout in April is even more crass and simplistic than the GST holiday. The government will sink Canada over $4 billion deeper into debt and pay certain Canadians $250 each. Many senior citizens, disabled Canadians, students and other Canadians reliant on social services will not get the payment. In other words, Trudeau omitted the very people who would need such a payment the most while giving a cheque to others making as much as $150,000 annually. The payments shouldn’t be going out at all but if they must, they should target them to the people most desperately in need of them. Trudeau did the opposite.Trudeau’s disconnect with common Canadians was well displayed with his little Taylor Swift performance. Tickets for that concert ranged in the thousands and most Canadians couldn’t even dream of being able to send their daughter to it. Trudeau had the means to attend and hey, good for him. He should have been cognizant of how it looks though and avoided his conspicuous consumption right after saying he was saving Christmas for low-income Canadians.The reason Trudeau couldn’t stay in the background during the concert is the same reason he had to steal the spotlight with an impromptu karaoke performance during Queen Elizabeth’s funeral; it’s all about him. Trudeau is an insecure man-child who needs constant affirmation through public attention. He must always be the centre of attention thus wandering the crowds of the Taylor Swift concert and exchanging friendship bracelets when he could have been taking in the show without garnering notice.The issues are catching up to Canada thanks to a decade of Trudeau’s vacuous and directionless leadership. Canada’s GDP per capita ratio has plummeted when compared to the United States. Permissive policies with addicts, foreign interference, criminals, and mass immigration have led to degraded, crime ridden urban centres and the open targeting of Canada’s Jewish communities by unchecked pro-Hamas hate mobs have made headlines around the world. Meanwhile, Canada is getting roasted for not pulling its weight with NATO due to the Canadian military being underfunded and overwhelmed with DEI policies under Trudeau’s government.In short, Trudeau has deferred every tough task in front of him since becoming prime minister and the nation is a mess. In the meantime, Donald Trump is signaling a tough stance including tariffs as high as 25% if Canada doesn’t get its act together.I can’t think of anybody worse than Justin Trudeau to deal with our largest trading partner. Not only is Trudeau too dim to deal with the intricacies of trade, economy, and diplomacy, but he has poisoned the waters by antagonizing Trump for years.Who can forget Trudeau embarrassing Canada as he was caught on a hot mic tittering like a schoolgirl and gossiping about Trump at a NATO summit in 2019? You know Trump hasn’t forgotten it.Canada is swirling the drain in many ways and its going to take a lot of work to pull the country out of this death spiral. Nothing will be accomplished until Canada’s biggest problem is removed however and that problem is Justin Trudeau. With every week that incompetent man remains at the helm, Canada sinks deeper as does its world reputation.The best time to get rid of Trudeau was yesterday. The next best time is now.
