How the Liberal party failed Justin Trudeau and Canada
Enough has been said and written about our present prime minister and now his party must also be held to account.
Where the party caucus failed to censure his poor performance in his first term the voting public did. 2019 was the year the caucus should have removed him as leader.
It is the job of political parties to supply the best possible leadership candidates, and where they are not up to the job they must be replaced.
In the decade that Justin Trudeau has been PM, Canada’s Conservatives have had 5 different leaders. In Britain they have had five different prime ministers. Why leaders come and go is the stuff of politics; but the bottom line is that it is the party’s job to make sure they are delivering the real goods.
Leadership races are very vulnerable to the wrong person being chosen for the wrong reasons. Candidates with good credentials are passed over, political correctness takes over, and convention delegates are swayed by the most superfluous concerns. Politics remains the one vocation where the credentials of applicants are not scrutinized or vetted as they should be. Political party “walk-ins” can rise to top positions of power and prestige in very short time frames… with their party’s blessing; no experience is necessary. Too often politics is seen as a sporting event, overdosing on superficial hype.
Even before winning the leadership of 2015 journalists and pundits were raising concern’s over the son's qualifications; too many brashly assumed he was a carbon copy of his famous father as one of our countries better prime ministers.
Once elected his fame faded fast as he immediately attracted the attention of the ethics commissioner, going from one scandal to another, showing frequent poor political judgement, and icing out some of his most capable ministers.
In 2019 he called an election expecting he would win another majority and when he didn’t win called another election in 2021 with the same dismal result.
Where the party caucus failed to censure his poor performance in his first term the voting public did. 2019 was the year the caucus should have removed him as leader.
Why they didn’t act? It is because politics has become all about money, power, pensions and job security. Challenging the leadership, forcing scrutiny and accountability is the fundamental purpose of both opposition parties and government caucuses. The NDP leader was so hapless as to guarantee the PMs coddled tenure.
The media played it sly role of the carefully crafted apologist in receipt of government subsidies.
Now with the poorly timed departure of the PM not only does the party need to elect a credible leader, they must rebuild public confidence where a misfit leader was left to linger too long.
Instead of graciously stepping aside and letting his deputy prime minister take over he fired her and sentenced himself to three more months of political limbo.
Like our neighbors to the south the integrity and competence of our political parties deserve much greater scrutiny.
Trudeau and his laggard Liberals have paved the way for much more momentous events:
Is Canada Gone? What do you think?
Your Liberal Party sounds as bad as our Democratic one, and equally useless and corrupted. Sounds to me like both should be destroyed; there's no possibility of reforming either one.
As for Canada still existing, of course it does! Trump isn't going to annex Canada any more than he's going to annex Mars. All this BS really is his idea of an opening negotiating tactic. It's also an attention-attracting method. Never forget Trump is a narcissist before he is anything else.
Canada should join the BRICS before Orange Man Bad sends the "82nd Airborne" to occupy Fort Mac after Fidelito's counter sanctions with oil.