Trudeau's failure is also his party's failure
Trudeau's failure is also his party's failure
The best strategy for the Liberal party is to get rid of Trudeau and rise to the challenge they face— totally self-inflicted.
The Liberal Party of Canada has allowed itself to be dumbed down by a poor leader, the stealth neoliberal ideology, and allowing themselves to become groupies to the highly corrupted US Democrats.
Party politics in both Canada and US are in ruins, and the road back is there for the taking— where actual reform minded progressives are available.
A fire storm of accusatory fingers are aimed at Justin Trudeau these days and rightly so. His day of reckoning has come after an eight year apprenticeship as prime minister. Governments are granted a honeymoon period to get their houses in order. Trudeau’s Liberal Party never got its act together and has floundered from one crisis and scandal to another. Too many cabinet changes, too many broken promises, too much virtue signaling, political correctness, gas lighting and vindictiveness. He has never been successful at maintaining the duplicity required of politicians in these to times to hide the presence of the vested interests who control them. Too much spending and too few achievements and whole truckloads of scapegoating.
More than enough has been said about his short comings . We must also take a look at the Liberal party’s shortcomings in this mess, and there are plenty.
When he became leader in leader in 2013 he did on his father’s name, after serving as a mediocre MP. His father was Justice Minister prior to becoming PM and had earned his stripes. Mark Garneau whose leadership credentials were far superior withdrew from the race as he saw the Trudeau name was enough to win—no question asked as the new Dorian Gray had arrived to save the country.
There were numerous journalists and pundits who expressed concern over the son’s qualifications for the keys to the PMO. Gullible Liberals thought they were getting a clone of the father, but life and gene pools are much more complicated, as they were to learn belatedly.
Political parties fail to properly vet leaders on an ongoing basis and candidates deserve much more scrutiny than they are getting, when potentially, they might be running the country . But this reflects the self-serving nature of political parties as they are most concerned with getting elected and often pass over the best talent in favor of what they see as a marketable product.
Under Canada’s constitution governments are supposed to deliver “peace, order and good government . Instead governments now are more concerned with perks, power, privilege and pensions. Party politics, in both Canada and the USA are in ruins, in large part because of the neoliberal ideology.
Trudeau’s failure is very much his parties failure. They bought the brand without a closer look at the product. As long as he could win elections they were along for the ride. When they should have challenged his leadership as is their obligation they failed to do so.
In 2021 he called an unnecessary election because he was mad at the electorate for not giving him a second majority in 2019. This was childish petulance no party should condone as it never it occurred to him or party the electorate judged them unworthy of a second majority. Instead of responding to this admonition party continues to decline and the PM’s dismal apprentice continues.
Two years away from the next federal election this government and its leader are exhausted and discredited.
The Conservatives smell blood and are itching for an election. If elected there will be a return to Harperism as Poilievre is a Harper protege. The CPC is just as neoliberal as the neoliberal Liberals, pep rally politicians looking for a public handout.
Trudeau has just returned from a G 20 conference in India where he disgraced Canada once again as he did in 2018.
Canada’s housing crisis is an inexcusable failure of government management as they flood the country with refugees and foreign students with no housing available to them, driving prices through the roof for all. The first thing Trudeau does is to blame the provinces when his government is flooding the country with refugees with record intakes. He has a deplorable record when it comes to federal /provincial cooperation which is essential to running the country.
He is squandering tens of billions on foreign wars the country cannot afford.
The best strategy for the Liberal party is to get rid of Trudeau and rise to the challenge they face— totally self-inflicted. They have two years left in their mandate to show they may have a pulse after flat-lining for eight years.
The Liberal party in its present incarnation is a by-product of a broken colonized democracy.
Canadians have cast non-confidence votes on this government, in too many ways, too often. Governments must be both responsible and responsive. The present government is neither.
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