Posted on 12/16/2024 12:05:36 PM PST by dennisw
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly considering submitting his resignation after a public battle over the economy amid U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats.
Sources told CTV News that Trudeau told his cabinet that he was considering prorogation or resignation and potentially planning to address Parliament this afternoon.
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland quit Monday morning in a surprise move after disagreeing with Trudeau over the threats. In a post on X, she said that she was offered a different position, but upon reflection just assumed she'd leave.
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"Our country today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 percent tariffs. We need to take that threat extremely seriously," Freeland wrote in her resignation letter.
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"That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," she continued. "That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment. That means pushing back against 'America First' economic nationalism."
CTV's official pollster Nik Nanos called the ordeal a disaster for Trudeau.
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Seems that Tr-47 threw Justin into a tailspin. Into a dark funk. Is Justin manic-depressive? His mind might need a hard reboot. (where you yank the plug on a computer)
The Trump effect claims another libby/commie casualty.
Is this The Bee? So, these clowns are resigning before Trump even becomes Prez? Canada is definitely patterned after the French Surrender Monkies. Donnie is not even in office yet!
Umm, boo-hoo?
Nahhh
I guess Justine Castro can go puff peters in private now.
Another leftist making a threat, one that they will likely not carry through with, to try and get their way.
Schultz in Germany is next.
No- its Raw Story...remember; they were the ones in 2006 who claimed Dick Cheney had been given 48 hours to clean up his personal affairs before he was indicted in Plamegate....
Looking back- too bad it wasn’t true...
That’s exactly how Trudeau seems.
Biden effectively resigned months ago.
tariff war?
i guess no more canadian beer for me.
The sooner this idiot is gone the better. He’s been the Canadian PM for almost 10 years. The US still has 30 plus days with their current idiot.
Above link worth listening to.
More good news, we’re going to have a lot of winning with the Trumpster.
Trump is exposing the folly of these foreign leaders before he even takes office!!! LOLOL...
These drooling woke fools are frightened and blinded by Donald Trump’s halo of MAGA.
Typically bully. Run away and cry after someone stands up to him.
Justine is running out of options. Quite a blow to the knee-caps in losing a Deputy Prime Minister, Freeland.
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