He’s gone – but he’s not gone. As per his announcement in Ottawa on Monday, one of Canada’s most disliked prime ministers is finally set to exit the political stage. First sworn in on November 4, 2015, Justin Trudeau will resign once the Liberal party has chosen his successor. It is a process that may take some time.
Trudeau started out as prime minister by promising ‘sunny ways.’ Instead his regime delivered a tumultuous decade of radical social and legal change, achieved by methods that were frequently high-handed and occasionally unprecedented (such as the debanking of protestors).
Trudeau has always been a curious mix of ruthlessness and juvenility
Under his leadership, Canada doubled its national debt, legalised marijuana, witnessed homicides and gun crime skyrocket, and saw overdose deaths quadruple, while assisted suicide went from a criminal act to Canada’s fifth leading cause of death. Not so sunny, after all.
During the pandemic Trudeau’s administration imposed some of the most repressive health restrictions in the world.
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