Trudeau’s Liberal government is unflatteringly trailing behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. Liberals’ numbers are dipping 15 to 18 points lower than the Conservatives, hovering sadly between 23 to 26 percent. Trudeau’s left-leaning policies have left everyone with only TRUCK FRUDEAU. I shouldn’t have said Truck. Anyway, even within his own Liberal party, there’s a vibe that they might soon start asking for plus-ones.
Justin Trudeau remains at Canada’s helm only because of a three-year pact with Khalistani terrorist Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats. This alliance, somewhat of a political life jacket, ensures Trudeau’s stay in power until June 2025, despite both parties’ popularity sinking faster than a lead balloon. Trudeau, alongside his band of senior advisors, attempts to throw Hail Marys in every direction, yet finds each effort more fruitless than the last.
As the clock ticks with the urgency of a Quentin Tarantino flick soundtrack, Trudeau and the Liberals, in a move that screams desperation louder than a telemarketer at dinner time, decided to shed their long-embraced political narratives like last season’s fashion. This drastic change of wardrobe, political style, and perhaps even soul, hints at the lengths to which they’ll go to cling to power.
In a scene that could easily be mistaken for a comedy sketch, Trudeau, stepped up to the microphone in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with the air of someone about to unveil the secret to eternal youth. Instead, he delivered a line that’s a lesson in Irony. Trudeau began ripping into Trudeau for his reckless administration.
The topic was temporary immigration in Canada. With the seriousness of a doctor delivering a diagnosis or rather some advice on Euthanizing Grandpa and grandma to sound more Canadian, Trudeau pointed out that the number of temporary residents has ballooned from a modest 2% in 2017 to a staggering 7.5%. Trudeau’s solution is to get things “back under control,”.
With the finesse of a magician trying to make his own policies disappear, Trudeau pinpointed the burgeoning issue of temporary immigration without so much as a nod to the grand narrative he authored. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we? Since taking the stage in 2015, the Trudeau Liberals have been absolutely reckless with immigration policies, announcing grand plans to welcome one million immigrants over three years. Not to be outdone by their own ambitions, in 2018, they decided to sweeten the pot with an extra 40,000 immigrants, aiming for a grand total of 350,000, making up roughly 1% of Canada’s population. In his speech, Trudeau seemed in no mood to spare Trudeau for the callousness. Trudeau’s violent shaking of the head attested to the fact that he was not going to let Trudeau off the hook easily.
Trudeau also pointed out that Trudeau’s administration had no plans to pay for this massive wave of immigration or deal with issues related to housing, jobs, taxes and ensuring Canada’s economic engine could handle this influx of new immigrants.
Canada’s open-door policy for refugees sprinted like an Olympic runner, particularly with the 25,000 Syrian refugees welcomed within the blink of an eye (or a two-month window) in 2015. This act was deemed “problematic” by no less an authority than the president of the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance—cue the dramatic gasps. Then there was the 2017 sequel featuring Haitians streaming across the US-Canada border.
Then there is the tale of temporary foreign workers. Trudeau had previously castigated his predecessor, Stephen Harper, for expanding the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), an initiative he later seemed to embrace with the enthusiasm of a fresh convert and even expand on it.
Trudeau after becoming the PM, executed a masterful about-face on temporary work permits. Picture this: in 2015, the starting line was just over 310,000 permits. Fast forward to 2022, and Canada is almost hitting 800,000. It’s as if Trudeau mistook the accelerator for the brake pedal. But the speaker Trudeau made Prime Minister Trudeau shit his pants, when he asked questions about all the aforementioned things. The audience clapped nervously not understanding which Trudeau were they clapping for.