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There has been quite a bit, but some notable stuff:
Was elected on the promise of reforming the electoral system. He immediately betrayed that promise once elected
Awarded a huge government contract to a charity run by friends of his (WE Charity)
Pressured his ex justice minister to intervene in a criminal case against a Quebec construction company (SNC Lavalin)
Bought a crude oil pipeline for $5 billion
Was caught lying about having done blackface at parties in the past
His deputy Prime minister just resigned very abruptly and blamed it on him
Here's a more extensive list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Justin_Trudeau_controversies
Relative contrast means a lot. So how does this compare to past conservative PMs and future prospects?
Additionally, what good has he done?
You see my concern is that a lot of this is inflated in the way righties against Biden stoke up scandals without looking at the elephant in the room.
There are people more informed than me to answer this, but here's my opinion.
Trudeau has been a lame but fairly middle of the road leader. Not actively destructive, but far from the progressive power house he sold himself as. His government has mostly been on auto pilot while the country has quickly deteriorated and cost of living has soared under his watch. The only positive programs that have been passed have been because of our 3rd biggest official party, the NDP, basically forcing their hand since the Liberals are a minority government.
Trudeau definitely sucks and the main reason people want him to step down is because the Liberals need an actual leader if they stand any chance of beating the Conservatives in the upcoming federal election. The current Conservative leader has basically been riding an anti-woke outrage train who claims to have all the answers while cozying up to big business and appealing to far right culture war ideologies.
There's also a very American style Trudeau hate movement in the past few years complete with FUCK TRUDEAU merchandise seen on heads, trucks, and houses. It's pretty cringe.
I appreciate the insight, thanks. Seems like a fair assessment and hearkens to frustrations with Biden who, while better than the opposition, is watered-down to the legitimate progressive economic populism that is needed to thwart rising fascist populism we're seeing everywhere.
This is exactly it. He's not outright evil or destructive in the way that the Conservatives are, but he's too firmly in the "Capitalism is the answer" camp to be able to offer meaningful solutions to our out of control cost of living crisis. As a result people keep getting poorer, and they turn to ideologues to fix their problems.
Ngl I'd give up my firstborn to have him instead of trump
He's not that bad of a leader but all the polling is showing that if he's the LPC's leadership pick we will have a deeply conservative government.
We could have done a lot worse than Trudeau but we also could have done a lot better - his government has generally been one of cautious inaction while the world has been going bonkers.
Boy if that doesn't succinctly capture the tepid response to domestic and global turmoil.
Though it's kind of understandable. The disconnect between noble (enough) leaders trying to make a difference against immovable obstacles (big money, fascists, oligarchs, etc.) and their gullible poorly educated citizenry versus the snake-oil fox seeking to guard the Hen house by doling out empty promises would be amusing if the consequences weren't so dire.
Most laypeople who know no better will take empty promises and hollow truths over tough love and hard truths. Makes me think of the WV coal miners and Trump promising them clean coal while Hillary told them the unfortunate reality.
I think whoever the Libs do pick is going to be in an even worse position. At least Trudeau could score some points dealing with Trump.
If they wanted to do some good, they'd either disband completely, or merge into the NDP so the left/centre vote doesn't get split. They have no problem crying "Anything But Conservative" when they're the Anything, but I doubt they'll have the grace to do it when it's not to their benefit.
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