Re: Canada. Now NYC's Trashloid of Record is reporting it, too (fwd)

On 2025-01-05 10:15 PM, danny burstein wrote:

Mostly repeating from The Globe and Mail, but has lots of the
details hidden by the paywall
 https://nypost.com/2025/01/05/world-news/trudeau-expected-to-announce- resignation-this-week-report/
 

I was amused to read the comments under that article that credited Trump with Trudeau leaving. I have no doubt that Trump - or more accurately FEAR of Trump -  is very influential all over the world but Trudeau's imminent resignation - if that's what he really does - has much much MUCH more to do with polls that show the Liberals 25 points or more below the Conservatives in the upcoming election with Trudeau as leader. That's the one thing that has Liberal MPs shitting bricks and finally growing the backbone to try to pressure Trudeau to leave while there is still a remote chance of resurrecting the party's fortune under a new leader.
Trudeau should have read the writing on the wall at least a year ago and made his exit then but he's dragged his heels so hard that he's only just starting to understand how toxic he is to the whole country. Now, he has his party in massive disarray on the very eve of Trump's inauguration and his threatened 25% tariff on EVERYTHING.
We have yet to see how the tariff threat can be handled - and who will handle it - when the Liberals have only an interim leader (who may very well be the incompetent Trudeau himself) while others jockey for the top job. Equally imponderable is the question of what happens with regards to the tariffs if we are plunged into an election in the next few weeks.
A Liberal leadership campaign takes 4 months if they follow their constitution but an election takes only around a month from start to finish so I'm hoping we'll have an election but I know the Liberals won't want an election until their new leader is in place.
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Rhino