I’ve heard sometimes links don’t work if you are using apps. Try the web interface?

The point was to secure stuff going south. Who cares now?

I always assumed hate against him was like Canadian Fox News stuff.

It mostly is, yes. The Conservative Party leader is very much a Maple Maga fanboy, and (like all Conservatives before him) he appeals to the Prairie provinces; the oil workers, farmers, truckers, etc… Your basic Fox news crowd. His father was also very disliked by the same crowd, and so his last name itself triggers them like you wouldn’t believe. (Think “Canadian Clintons”)

But a large part of it (I initially thought), was also typical Canadian political trends. We tend to put the Liberals in power and then keep re-electing them long enough for them to inevitably become the villain (usually about a decade), and then over-correct and do the same thing with the Conservatives. Like clockwork, and it was coming up to about that time.

Now, though, with Trudeau stepping down, and the promise of a new leader…combined with the general hatred of Pierre Poppinfresh, the Liberals fortunes have turned around 180 degrees. So it’s going to be an interesting federal election rather than the landslide that the Maple Maga fuckwits were expecting.

I dislike him because he’s a neoliberal and especially his broken promise to get rid of FPTP voting.

I was hopeful when he got elected, and he fulfilled some promises, but he failed to move forward with proportional representation election overhaul, IMO a major flaw that could’ve been what he was known for in the future. He’s also had scandals like any other PM. The Me to We charity scandal (where a charity was awarded a large govt contract. The charity had previously paid Trudeau and family to appear at its events) was ultimately cleared by the ethics commissioner. His SNC lavalin scandal where he attempted to directly influence our justice minister to intervene on an ongoing criminal case, then removed her from her position when she refused. SNC lavalin was also found to have made illegal party donations, which the liberals didn’t reveal when the initially found them.

He was also the first PM in history to have been found to break the federal ethics rules by accepting a private vacation for his family from Aga Khan, breaking the conflict of interest rules.

He’s always paraded himself as very progressive, but images circulated of him wearing brown face when he was slightly younger (but definitely old enough to know better).

Finally, a ton of people who were anti-mask were fed rhetoric that it was Trudeau’s fault for the masking requirements, despite the fact that it was almost entirely Provincial restrictions. They also tried to cry overreach when Ford failed to remove the Ottawa encampment, and Trudeau enacted the emergency act to clear them, though again, reviews after the fact cleared him and agreed it was an acceptable use of the powers.

Overall, an enormous step up from Harper says of no transparency, but he didn’t quite live up to what many had hoped, and they’re angry at the current situation, and blaming him is an easy scapegoat.

Honestly, people are just tired of him because he’s been in office so long and has failed to deliver on some old promises.

He’s been in office for nearly a decade. Canadians are tired of him. Realistically, he hasn’t done anything worse than any other politician — you make promises, some you deliver on, some you don’t. Eventually, the “don’t”s pile up, and folks get tired

He only does something when backed into a corner. Otherwise he plays stupid political games and dresses up in costumes etc. I like crisis trudeau but not chilling trudeau.

Also he promised to change FPTP as someone else pointed out which is why I voted for him.

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$10 a day child care was pretty good. I’m a fan of the dental coverage too. The carbon tax actually reduced our emissions for the first time and was overall a net financial benefit for most Canadians.

He wasn’t amazing but he was not nearly the washout people act like he is.

fuckin weed, dude

Federal pandemic response was a mixed bag, but far from the shitshow of governing that some other countries experienced. Trudeau showed strong leadership through that period in my books.

I know one. Legalized weed.

Agree to disagree. Taxing your own people in response is just as stupid as taxing your people to start with. It just reassures my belief that none of these politicians care about their people.

China is the current biggest global economy?

Again with banging on that china drum. Are you a tankie?

First, China makes stuff that competes with what little the US makes. They also buy a lot of stuff. As a country that can stand up to US, protecting their trade with Canada could at least result in a UN security council objection to invasion.

The US was by far the greatest evil in the world prior to Trump, but instead of hoping for CIA/deepstate evil against world, the US empire’s shift to explicit extortion/war on allies, and by far the biggest threat to Canada, explaining facts about fentanyl and fair trade balance is not an effective response. Trump/cabinet knows they are lying instead of mistaken.

Aggressive moves to diversify trade now instead of waiting for war to roll out is needed. By all means sell stuff to Europe/Africa/South America, but China is a big market, and can sell us substitutes for everything US. Cancel US weapons contracts. Boeing orders.

Playing into US hands to amplify divisiveness between us, China, Mexico is path to defeat. We need to be on team delete America, and divisiveness is team USA. Other NATO colonies will also be offered a path of divisiveness to increase their sycophancy to US. The Asian ones are so far spared, but may side with US, as their traditional CIA coopted sycophants are politically entrenched to servitude rather than “these supposed values we all BS about”.