Justin Trudeau went surfing in Tofino on Canada's first Truth and Reconciliation Day.

He's very entitled but that's obvious. He grew up his whole life with a leg up on anyone else who wanted to enter politics. He just got reelected so he's feeling invincible. Of course I'm glad he won over the conservatives but Trudeau really isn't so great.

How he could do this today, of all days? Why didn't he just wait till tomorrow when no one would care?

A dumb ass move, indeed.

The weird thing is yes, he a spoiled and ultimately unserious brat - but he's still miles better than anything the conservatives have on offer.

I would have voted for Singh but the candidate in my riding was not qualified. I think Singh would be a great PM.

He's a worthless piece of shit, and fuck the 25% of the total electorate (mostly immigrants in Toronto) that kept this motherfucker in power. And his mother is a whore.

Every other leader did something today to mark the day. Yikes. This is bad.

Idiots gonna idiots. You voted for him eastern Canada.

Honestly I’d prefer going back to Harper to this moron

R6 Now why don't you tell us what you really think.........??!!

Well, that's it. Well just send Trump up there to run Canada, he's really petty too

R4 Bingo! And the NDP Leader is no prize either!!

Of course r6 that’s why he plays dress up with them. He doesn’t give a shit about actual Canadians who were born here indigenous or otherwise.

What the hell is first Truth and Reconciliation Day???

It sounds like a made up day in The Onion.

I've told you all a million times Trudeau is his own worst enemy when it comes to this kind of stupid shit. Every one knows he deserves a holiday as much as anyone, but why the fuck today? Again, where was the PMO to tell him "no"? He needs to go and so do the rest of the idiots close to him.

R14 It's for the Native Canadian children whose many bodies were found buried on school/church property. We were encourage to wear the color orange today in support, and I did.

this is really disgusting considering Trudeau played with the emotions of indigenous people to get elected the first time around. I remember one woman talking about her missing niece to me hoping that maybe things would change and the government would actually try to do something about all of the missing and murdered indigenous women. It’s way worse to play on people’s vulnerabilities to get what you want then to just be open about not caring.

[quote] It's for the Native Canadian

First Nations!

[quote] Terrible optics.

He just won reelection, and so he's on vacation after a long bout of campaigning.

I seriously doubt you even give two shits about the actual meaning of Canada's first Truth and Reconcilation Day yourself, or about indigenous Canadians. You're just posting this solely to score extremely cheap and shallow points against Trudeau.

You're fooling no one.

This might be the end of him........he should step down, and soon.

And there he is at R19, defending this shit. This was terrible optics and you damn well know it.

Hey, R19, Indigenous people themselves are calling him out. What does that tell you??

What’s with the pathetic Trudeau bootlickers on here? He’s not going to fuck you.

Here ya go, R19. JFC.

This was an awkward day for ALL Canadians. Many of us didn't know what to do or what to say.

It's a Federal holiday but some provinces, like mine (Ontario), opted out so many of us had to go to work. We had a scheduled meeting at my office and my boss was very emotional and didn't want the meeting to continue so it was canceled.

I liked Trudeau but this isn't just bad, it isn't just tone-deaf, it's offensive. It really is a slap in the face to Indigenous people.

Do we give a fuck about newly re-elected Trudeau's optics?

No we do not.

Are we going to pretend to care just to score low-IQ voter points?

No we are not.

Trudeau's fine. The extreme right hates him. The extreme left hates him. He's probably doing something right.

He's an asshole. He won't be around for long anyway. He can pretty much shelved any hope of running again (which I doubt he has.) But this is the kind of self absorbed behaviour that confirms what most people think of him, whether you agree with his politics or not. He's an asshole.

I will never understand how people can vote for someone based on looks/hair. It's fucking mind-boggling the damage this cunt has done to Canada, yet the fantasy of his dick in your pussy./asshole has won him three elections now. Canada is fucked.

Didn’t he grope a bunch of women too? Why haven’t we heard more about that? Honestly I’d expect it from someone like him.

Trudeau defenders, how can you not see that this was a bad move??

Yes, he deserves a break after the election, but why didn't he head to Kamloops since he was invited there and pay some respects or even stay in Ottawa and begin his vacation tomorrow?

He is the PM, he and his office have to think of the bigger picture.

Worse, he lied. His official schedule said private meetings in Ottawa. Nice little coward's sashay when he walks, if you're into that.

What a douche.

He's sexually assaulted women. Physically shoved a woman on camera. Been photographed in blackface multiple times. Openly admires China. Appeases and awards terrorists. He's a low IQ clown born into the world's 0.001% elite and gifted his party's leadership. Like his father, he despises and has declared war on White Anglo-Canadians. He's the worst thing ever to happen to Canada.

What a scummy motherfucker

Agree r32 we judge the us but we have our own massive issues here

[quote] He won't be around for long anyway.

He's been Labor Party leader since 2013 and he's been prime minister since 2015. He's [italic]already[/italic] been around for a long time.

Plus, he just won re-election for his third term.

Deal with it! Accept it! It's reality!

Canad's electoral system is so rotten and unfair and undemocratic, I think most Americans would be appalled if they cared to know the truth. The truth is one city - Toronto -can choose the government for the whole country, which is what just happened.

Well, actually, he's been Liberal party leader who has won one majority and two consecutive minorities. His government can be brought down at any time. So given your clear "understanding" of Canadian politics, you can be forgiven for not getting that his days as leader are numbered. He won't be around for long.

It’s Canada. Nobody gives a shit.

Also, he's a self-absorbed, clueless, arrogant, performative asshole. And he just made it pretty impossible to prove otherwise. Dad went for a walk in the snow, Jr. went for a walk on the beach. Guess which one will be respected in the long term?

And Toronto is full of the worst assholes in the country so of course this entitled douche bag keeps winning.

Toronto is among the reasons we've got a Liberal government in Ottawa and not a Conservative one, so give us that. It's not our fault he's the leader.

But yes, this horrible, Soviet city is full of assholes. They just have one good moment every few years where they vote right. Which is a miracle when you consider the toxic mix of no hopers they elect and re-elect to city council.

How does this compare to Calif Gov. Gavin Newsom dining (or was it lunching?) at the obscenely expensive elite French Laundry restaurant with a big group of people in contravention of his own stay-home orders to thwart COVID? He defeated the recent recall effort anyhow. Optics be damned?

The emotion around First Nations people is high in Canada. The residential schools scandal is ugly and shaming. Trudeau is such a preacher, this should be worse than Gavin having dinner in violation of his own rules. That said, everything's so partisan, principle doesn't matter on the left or the right because all people want to do is complain the other side is worse in comparison. Nothing matters in and of itself any more.

This is a terrible optics move 100% and he's an idiot for doing it.

That being said, it will be a niche issue that most Canadians won't care about. Sad reality, during the election, polls showed that reconciliation was an important issue to less than 10% of Canadians. Additionally, for about 90% of the country it was a normal working day. Trudeau will take some heat from politicians for political points, but I don't think people will care honestly. Reconciliation is important but more so to indigenous folks, university students and the woke Twitter crowd.

Who elected that meth head freak? What was his name, Something Ford?

Was that also Ontario?

How were those optics?

And yet this fucker wouldn't pass up an opportunity to take a selfie with some vapid celebrity.

Indigenous people will NOT forget this.

I have more respect for the right on this issue. Trudeau has been exploiting indigenous people and being a fake environmentalist his entire career.

R43 I would say most Canadians feel shame and sadness around the historical treatment of indigenous peoples, but R44 is correct. Reconciliation is not a the big issue that some think it is.

[quote]Optics be damned?

Evidently, freeper cunt fuck R42, he beat the recall.

Toronto liberals are a problem you say?

Tell me about it, they totally harshed my high. Repeatedly. They put private videos of my partying with my bros on blast. Then they fired me. Toronto liberals suck!

The Tories are where the Toronto party people go.

He didn’t get what he wanted from the election, so now he’s like, “Fuck ALL ya’ll!”

[quote]And Toronto is full of the worst assholes in the country so of course this entitled douche bag keeps winning.

No, Alberta is full of the worst assholes in the country. Get it right.

What an idiot! He’s always been a very incompetent leader. Only idiots vote for him.

[quote] What the hell is first Truth and Reconciliation Day???

More woke Canadian virtue signaling. But then what isn't

I'm not Canadian but doesn’t he seem a bit overdressed for surfing?

O Canada, be comforted. You're all still reacting to campaign caricatures of silly political nonsense. Who knows? He may well be wearing an orange thong to commemorate the first nation attrocities. You're idiots to long for an alternative that would put you in the Trumpy world of Rupert Murdochstan again. Trudeau knows this, that's why he's lost respect for you dunderheads who would value an orange fool at the head of some symbolic parade than an all too human leader that the Western hemisphere is very lucky to have, if you'd take the opportunity to notice, Besides, he still has your tar sands and baby seal clubbing days to make up for this frightful faux pas.

Someone in his inner circle should be smacking him right upside his head.

He appears to suffer from arrogance and a lack of self awareness like most people in politics.

Today his schedule will include going to a fry bread food truck while rocking turquoise jewelry.

R49, that's what I said: Newsom beat the recall despite the bad optics, so maybe optics don't count? Reading comprehension does, however.

Hyper-partisan Liberal Twitter - "Only Indigenous people have to right to be upset at Trudeau going to the beach."

Several Twitter accounts from prominent Indigenous people - "We're upset that the PM chose to go on holidays on the nation's first Truth and Reconciliation Day. It makes him seem insincere after the discoveries of the unmarked graves this year and especially because the election was less than two weeks ago and Trudeau promised to work on reconciliation. Also, he ignored an invitation to a ceremony in Kamlooops...."

Hyper-partisan Liberal Twitter - "The 28th was the anniversary of his father's death, his dead brother's birthday is upcoming, he deserves a vacation, he wanted to stay out of the public eye that day! How DARE you accuse him of being insensitive!!"

Prominent Indigenous people on Twitter - "it would have really mean a lot if he would have visited Kamloops, it seems like he only wants our votes, if this would have been before the election, he would have been there."

Hyper-partisan Liberal Twitter - "The media is biased!! This one Indigenous person I know said he didn't care that the PM went to Tofino!!"

He's over. He only has credibility with people who are willing to squint with one eye and close the other. He's a lightweight dilettante and if this insult doesn't prove it, you just won't see reality. What a knob.

Example A

^ That post proves what a fool you are. She's an Indigenous, focused on Indigenous issues and restorative justice and that's the handiwork of a right wing troll to you? You're fucking moron.

Who are you talking to, R64? I posted that to prove that Liberal Twitter is insane in defending him.

Example B

R63.... I totally apologize. I thought I was on another thread and completely misinterpreted your post. In this instance (and probably all instances) I'm the fool. A thousand apologies!

The point, R64, is that Indigenous people are upset, very upset with his actions, and rightly so, but Liberal Twitter insists on defending this shit with the lamest of excuses.

Ha, no problem, R67.

[quote] He's over. He only has credibility with people who are willing to squint with one eye and close the other. He's a lightweight dilettante

He should be over but instead he just won another election. Apparently a lightweight dilettante is the best Canada can do, which goes a long way showing why they are excluded from the new US/UK/Australian alliance.

I used to get into some barn burner scraps with Trudeau apologists but after this I can't even bother any more. It proves I was right all along about him and them. A shallow lightweight and ass sucking fangurls. The end. One less battle for obvious common sense to fight around here....

R70, as a Canadian I find that post makes me wince, but hard to argue with. As a nation, we have neglected both foreign policy and any sense of ourselves as a nation in the world. We have grown complacent and smug. Canada is not back under Trudeau. We continue to coast. Once we were honest brokers, now we're has beens. I hope Mark Carney takes over the Liberal party and helps restore the country to some respected standing as a middle power, because right now it feels like we're a former hot guy who's hair is thinning.

Let's be more specific. Trudeau was NOT surfing as the caption says but merely walking down the beach. He had spent hours talking to the families of Indigenous people on the phone. Op has a bug up his ass and really hates Trudeau. Take your venom and your postings elsewhere!

He will not recover from this.

I want him gone and I want the Liberal Party to return to normal. Keeping flags at half-staff does nothing for anyone, but the Trudeau stans who think it actually does something. Typical, all for show.

Indigenous people say that Trudeau pissed them off and fanboys literally white-splain how they've got it wrong.

Just the other day on Power and Politics the panel was saying that they thought Trudeau does care about reconciliation. He made them liars. Again, why couldn't he have waited one day to go on holidays? I don't buy the sudden tweet "I spoke on the phone to survivors" crap either. I'm sure he did, but that still doesn't make up for taking his family on vacation.

Why the fuck was he at the beach, R73??

Example C

R74 You have serious anger/hate issues...........

No, R76, he doesn't. He just doesn't say what you want him to say. Even as contrary opinions go, that's nursery rhymes for DL.

R76, you are seriously blind if you defend this. You're as partisan as a Trumper.

Example D

But, I guess all these Indigenous people who are upset are wrong, correct, R76??

R75 R77 R78 Twisted Troll who has too much time on their hands and REALLY needs to see a therapist!

You hosers really have your toques on backwards if you don't like Trudeau.

Wait, was that too rude?

LOL... your detective skills are about as good as your intellect, you sad apologist.

I'm sorry, pathetic apologist.

R79, what does it take for you to stop being an apologist? What does he have to do? I'd like to know. Are the Indigenous leaders whose Twitter accounts I've linked here wrong for being upset by Trudeau heading off to Tofino or not? Maybe you should tell them how they should feel, especially on the day after the first Truth and Reconciliation Day. Go ahead and invalidate them.

What R81 said.

The thing that bugs me most about fangurls is the lack of integrity. As long as someone is worse, it's OK. Nothing matters in and of itself any more. How can people respect the system if the people in it lack integrity? R79 doesn't need to turn his back on Trudeau but where's the harm, why the inability to admit he fucked up and should apologize and do better?

BC needs to leave Canada instead of having the rest of the country decide what kind of scumbag they want in charge of us.

On DL, it's because he has a hot ass, R84. That's it. It's like the Yaaaasss Kweens who make female politicians into "boss bitch divas" just by them being female and saying what they want them to say. I do not get it.

If a hot ass is the major requirement, then Adam Van Koeverden should be the Liberal leader. He's far more attractive than JT and is an Olympic champion.

All that, R84, and you know they'd rip another leader of they had done the same thing. Imagine if O'Toole had won and he went on vacation with his family? He'd be rightly criticized and Liberals wouldn't defend him one bit!!

Liberal Twitter was all over Singh a few days ago for skateboarding in an alley. (I can't stand Singh, btw, but I'm not going to go after him for something so stupid), but no one should dare to criticize JT for this??

Anyway I'm done nailing them. He is what he is, he's shown it, and only fools think otherwise. It's actually so amusing to me he actually handed his critics this proof. What a douche.

So? Let him. Fuck it.

He makes it soooo hard… why is he such a bonehead?

He’s better than any North American leader in the 21 St century. Well see about Biden who’s not doing too shabbily.

^ LOL.

R92 is obviously as clueless as Trudeau

Name anyone better.

STFU R92 you sound like stupid person.

You mean the guy who grew up rich, rubs elbows with dictators, and dressed in blackface also doesn’t give a shit about Native people? Go know!

I bet he flew on a private jet, too.

Well, Obama. He delivered more health care to his country than it had seen in fifty years. Trudeau's done nothing comparable and not much else.

I wish he’d drop dead. But from something embarrassing like untreated syphilis.

I had no idea what this day was about, or its significance, until I saw in the news that Queen Elizabeth sent a sympathetic message to mark the day. She's on her break but still found time to act appropriately. I agree, it doesn't look good for Trudeau.

The Star... the content doesn't need repeating... the headline is the content.

Seriously, like WTF!!! He could always go on vacation on the next day instead. VERY bad decision from him. It’s time for the Liberals to choose a new and more competent leader

I agree with the assertions most Canadians aren't concerned enough about this historic wrong to be angry about it on its face... I do wonder, though, if it confirms bigger reservations in many Canadians with regard to his character and superficiality. It certain deprives him of what he likes to do best, which is reciting his poetry about how everybody else should conduct themselves. Behind the scenes, this does significant damage to his credibility with First Nations, an important stakeholder.

It will be interesting to see if there is a story in a few days or week, maybe a month, about the whispers of 'time to go' getting louder as a result of this. He's now blundered into an election that was circular at best and now blundered into a humiliation the opposition doesn't even have to milk. For once things are as bad, maybe worse, than they look on the surface.

R104, lots of Canadians are though. People from my workplace who never seemed concerned about it have been since the discovery of the children's bodies. The unmarked grave findings woke up a lot of people.

Trudeau's lost the Indigenous vote which was already slipping. I'm sure the party is aware and the Liberals need their support.

I feel sorry for Marc Miller. He's one of the only Liberals (maybe the only one) who actually does give a damn. He's done some good work and takes a lot of heat because of Trudeau. This is going to be bad for him, and Marc's an honest guy. He'll have a hard time spinning this.

Hopefully this translates to more NDP votes but it will probably just make more people cynical snd not vote.

[quote] Indigenous people will NOT forget this.

First of all, that's less than 5% of the Canadian population.

Second, do you really think they're going to vote for a Conservative because the Premier took a vacation right after his reelection bid? I think not.

The NDP don't give a shit either, R106 and Jagmeet Singh is a phony. The Cons are too.

What needs to happen is the Liberals need to get rid of Justin and pick a fucking competent leader.

So it's all okay because Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the population? Good fucking god.

Trudeau is such a douche. He even has a smirk on his face in r109

Kill the rich

[quote]Second, do you really think they're going to vote for a Conservative because the Premier took a vacation right after his reelection bid? I think not.

Or maybe they just don't vote. Can be as harmful as voting elsewhere in a narrow race.

"the Premier," R107? You mean the PM? No, Indigenous people won't vote in large for the Cons, but if they vote, they will vote for the NDP instead of the Liberals - which means that either the NDP could win OR the vote on the left gets split and the Cons come up the middle.

[quote]Second, do you really think they're going to vote for a Conservative because the Premier took a vacation right after his reelection bid? I think not.

He flew to vacation on what was supposed to be the first ever day for reflection and reconciliation over the deaths of hundreds of children, far from their homes, as a result of government policy.

Let's not add insult to injury even if Justin does have a nice ass.

Yeah you’d think a rich guy with no real boss could postpone his vacation for something like this. Even rednecks I know we’re really left horrified and speechless by the discovery of all the dead children this year. He obviously has zero conscious.

[Quote] Well, Obama. He delivered more health care to his country

You mean he delivered it to the private health insurance companies and sold it to his purple as public health insurance.

Cmon r96 you can surely try harder. Don't be such a cold.

[quote] This was terrible optics and you damn well know it.

Yes, but the point is, it's just optics. It doesn't actually mean anything.

Yes, it does, R117. It means he doesn't give a shit and is so arrogant that he didn't realize that even thinking of going on holidays was a bad idea. He is the PM, not some random dude who took the opportunity of a stat to drive out to the beach instead of attending a memorial/march etc...

Give up, R116. Obama was more consequential when he was community organizing than Justin Trudeau will ever be.

Meh. Someone else can take care of the optics. That's why you have deputies.

R116, suppose you provide us with some of the legendary accomplishments of Justin, rather than your sweeping observations of his magical powers. I await with interest and amusement.

.......

[Quote] . Obama was more consequential when he was community organizing than Justin Trudeau will ever be.

That's all Obama ever did for the people. Community organizing did he say? Maybe he will stop evolving in retirement.

Sorry, this must be hard for you r116.

Ok so who else you got?

Justin sometimes looks "better" than US presidents because he had less work to do. Canada has long had things that the Americans don't/didn't (or we got these things long ahead of the Americans) maternity leave, sickness benefits, universal health care, marriage equity, other social programs, worker protections (union rights for example) etc.. It has nothing to do with one thing Trudeau making miracles happen. Take MAID for instance - Canada is generally more left than the US, so not as hard to get things like that through.

We have a running start on the US on many of those sorts of issues, and they have to play catch up on some things, but credit isn't all Trudeau's to take. Think Pearson, old man Trudeau, Chretien, Martin who have legacies. Trudeau Jr. can and does deserve credit on extending parental leave, MAID, pot legalization, increased child care benefits, upcoming daycare program BUT, he had less of a hill to climb to get those things done than Biden, Obama, Clinton (all of whom would be actual Progressive Conservatives/moderate Conservatives if they were politicians in Canada).

It takes years to build reputation and often moments to lose it.

He's always had trouble matching his rhetoric with his lifestyle. Do as I say, not as I do.

I know the Liberals probably don't want another white man to lead them, but who really would be in the running to take leadership aside from Carney (I doubt it'd be him for some reason), Champagne, Gallant???? I don't think it'll be Freeland. Who else is there?

Funnily enough, I argue it's whoever comes across as having a vision and ideas. That was the strength of Trudeau the elder. Chretien had the Red Book. Stars often bomb in the Liberal ranks - Ignatieff, much hailed in the same way I think Carney is rumoured (though I don't quite discount Carney yet, only note that precedent isn't really on his side.) Heirs bomb too: Martin, Turner. I think anyone is capable of a surprise. I think that's the biggest let down of La Chignon... he talked like he knew far more than he proved to know. You were looking for his father's wisdom and got fridge magnets and mugs. Rather too much like his mother, I'm afraid, sweet, well intentioned, empty headed.

Come to that, Margaret, too, showed a propensity for ill timed vacations that offended the country!

Way back when, I wanted Marc Garneau to take leadership (yes, he dropped out). He's a boring older man, but he's solid and smart. However, he probably wasn't enough to take down Harper, but, I think he'd have made a good PM and wouldn't embarrass the country or do stupidly reckless things. He's 72 and probably too old to lead, but he's a solid performer.

They ALL do stuff like this. Lecture us on how to behave and then do whatever the fuck they want.

Harper was almost the same as Trudeau he just didn’t claim he was going to do things like investigate MMIW. It shows how centrist the Liberals really are.

There will come a day in the future where every day will be assigned to an aggrieved group and all we'll get to do every day is sit there looking solemn waiting for death.

He was born in a very wealthy family with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has never had to work hard to earn anything. Please don’t compare him with an US president whose responsibilities and workloads are more than 10x than a Canadian PM

I want to see Justin and Jagmeet strip down at that Tofino Island beach.

I want to see them arm-wrestle.

And then I want a full-body wrestle. I want sweat!

But, but he brought a teddy bear. That counts for something, eh?

I am one of La Chignon's greatest critics here but even I wouldn't credit a word The Sun has to say about the matter. It's one of those papers where you could cure cancer and if you're not a knuckle dragger you'll still have done something wrong.

Sigh......Liberals needs to stop telling First Nations how they should feel or making excuses for the PM snubbing them.

It's not just The Sun, R136.

So does Keanu Reeves still get to play Justin in the movie?

Sean Penn should get to play Justin in the movie. They both have wide heads and Penn can play megalomaniacs.

At this point, the only person desperate enough for that part will be Glenn Close.

True, R137, and I can guarantee the ones on my Facebook who will be bitching about Trudeau here are also the same ones who always bitch about Indigenous people “just wanting handouts”. After thinking about Trudeau’s actions, it is true that maybe he should have remained low key and let Indigenous people have their day. Instead, the press ignores Indigenous people and stalks Trudeau.

[quote] stalks Trudeau.

He adores the limelight.

Is that what you got from that Tweet, R141?

A FN community in Kamloops where first the unmarked graves were found invited Trudeau need to be told what's up by some Liberal partisan? He held indoor events during the campaign, so why couldn't he have at met privately with some FN leaders if he was so worried about attracting attention? There's no excuses here.

Read some of the responses to that tweet, R137.

Or I mean R143. The fact is Trudeau is damned if he does, dammed if he doesn’t. If he wasn’t attending any events, the very least he should have done was stay home. But to pillory him for this is ridiculous.

Nah, he deserves it, R145. This was stupid. He's the PM, he should have been at an event, even if it was private/small scale and he should have held off on his vacation.

Roseanne Archibald, Cindy Blackstock, Niigaan Sinclair and others have all made statements against Trudeau's trip to Tofino. It's a slap in the face to many people.

It’s strange that rich people such as Justin Trudeau and his crotch flashing mother are so trashy yet they have so many brainwashed that they’re superior. If a poor person behaved like this we’d call them white trash.

The photo in r135 is just shameless. I could never have used that poor dead child's grave for such a cloying photo op.

He has no soul

He has a soul. He just lacks character.

This thread can go on and on and on if it likes. If there was an election next month I would vote Liberal (again). I don't have any fondness for Justin Trudeau who has proven, disappointingly, to be his mother's son. But I can't vote conservative. Old school tory? Maybe. Maybe. But whining Wexiters crying about Alberta supporting the whole country and then turning around and screaming for handouts the minute oil prices drop? Alt-right-y dog-whistling Trumpy jackasses who want this country to be like the worst parts of the United States? Social conservatism in any form? People who want to fuck the healthcare system worse than it already is being fucked? Posturing "Christians' blaming immigrants for their every hurt feeling and stubbed toe? Nah. Nah. Trudeau can pose with all the teddy bears he wants because it's not about who he is, it's about who the other side are.

Conservatives. Not even once.

Justin has to go. Liberals need to act fast and get rid of him. Canada should not be led by a spoiled, incompetent and weak leader.

I find the silence really confusing. Saying nothing is worse than whatever he will say in apology.

Writing his resignation, R153?

A tiny part of me wondered. But even if he's cornered by this he's too vain to let it be his legacy. He will ride out the storm and pass/implement some legislation - child care - and then go. No one I've heard talking about it thinks he has any intention of trying to run again now, if indeed he ever did. I think very little of him but this act of obvious disrespect and selfishness surprises even me, even for someone like him. I'm kind of amazed his intelligent father could raise such an idiot.

I said in the election thread that unless he's replaced, the 2021 election is the last time I vote Liberal to try and save their stupid asses. I hate the thought of a Conservative government, but I'm comfortable enough that if they formed government, they wouldn't hurt me.

I'm politically homeless. I can't stand Singh, I think he's smarter than Trudeau, but he's a liar and is only trying to appeal to the youth. The NDP won't help me out at all and they've basically turned their backs on middle-class working people. Mr. Singh can fuck right off if he thinks he's going to tax my home if I sell it in retirement to help young people buy a home. I've worked hard and long for what I have and my home is my nest egg. I'm a late Gen Xer and didn't walk into the world where jobs were plenty and easy to find either. I didn't settle into my career until I was 33 and didn't buy my first home until I was 35. Find another way to help the youth but don't take away what I've worked for. I'm doing well now, but I didn't have an easy start either.

I've never voted Conservative in my life and I don't plan to start.

The environment is my major concern, but the Greens are in disarray.

I'll either throw my vote away next time or stay at home if Trudeau is still at the helm of the Liberals.

I stayed home last time R156 because of Trudeau.

Pfffft! The Trudeau haters are the Trump ass lickers. Fascinating.

Nice try, bad lie, little girl.

Liberal twitter still busy white-splaining to people like Blackstock and Roseanne Archibald why Trudeau went to Tofino. Now it's because it's his father's birthday and the anniversary of his brother's death and the family always goes to Tofino to mark the dates. You know, the rest of us have never had to actually work or fulfill obligations on the anniversaries of the deaths of our family members....JFC.

🙄🙄🙄

They've even turned on Chantal Hebert.

He walked on the beach. Big fucking deal.

Half Native with Canadian Metis best friend.

[quote] Big fucking deal.

You say the same about Blackface, don't you.

Not to be super brave and controversial but I don't think Trudeau is a racist for that blackface. It's not OK in 2021 and hasnt been for a long time and he's an idiot for it but he's obviously not a racist. that's why no one really gives a fuck about it

David Akin is NOT buying excuses from Trudeau stans.

Fun trivia - Akin used to be a professional dancer.

[quote] Not to be super brave and controversial but I don't think Trudeau is a racist

You many not to be 'super brave and controversial', R165, but you are a Moral Relativist.

I don’t think Trudeau is a racist but I think he doesn’t consider other people at all and that is a problem. Hes basically like if Zoolander had been raised rich and decided to go into politics. I’m the same age group as him and nobody I know has to be told things like doing blackface aren’t a great idea.

Yes, Zoolander is a good comparison!

This paints a picture of a path for redemption and an exit, which is win win in my books. The problem is, looking at his track record, I'm not sure he's bright enough to grasp it or focused enough to get it done.

"If Pierre had not been philosopher king, would Justin have become crown prince? Would Justin have risen if his name were Justin Tardiff? And now, would he be channelling Mr. Pearson in this, likely his last act in politics?

Justin had tried being his father, the strong man and nation builder. It didn’t work. In 1974, after two years in minority championing an economic nationalism supported by David Lewis and the NDP, the Liberals engineered their own defeat in Parliament. The architect, again, was Keith Davey, who would now become the most gifted political strategist of his time. He loved Mr. Trudeau, as had Mr. Pearson.

Justin had no such eminence grise to check his impulses, a carelessness that brought him the Aga Khan, SNC-Lavalin, WE Charity, his ill-attired visit to India and the short, unhappy tenure of Julie Payette.

In 2021, another election, another misjudgment. Mr. Trudeau’s vanity project costs $620-million and ratifies the status quo. He is unapologetic. Resign? As Jason Kenney knows, that’s so 1960s.

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How? Embrace intercity high-speed rail, a national electricity grid and affordable housing, and make them national projects. Deliver clean drinking water on reserves. Build a national portrait gallery and a national science museum. Address income inequality and the rural-urban divide. Oppose more decentralization. Drop the virtue signalling and hand-wringing. Hire a speech writer and offer a vision beyond sound bites and slogans.

Hell, if Mr. Trudeau is serious, let him use his authority as the most senior leader of the Group of Seven to lead an escalated global effort on the climate emergency. And let him find the resources to recommit Canada to the world, where we have become the gentle giant of gesture."

Poor Domo LeBlanc is on Rosemary's show explaining his boss's actions. It's been days and still no statement from JT.

[quote] …Trudeau … vanity …

Yes, R170, those two words belong together.

Excellent article R170.

[quote]Embrace intercity high-speed rail, a national electricity grid and affordable housing, and make them national projects. Deliver clean drinking water on reserves. Build a national portrait gallery and a national science museum. Address income inequality and the rural-urban divide. Oppose more decentralization. Drop the virtue signalling and hand-wringing. Hire a speech writer and offer a vision beyond sound bites and slogans.

This is spot on. I currently vote Liberal entirely by default. I would vote for them enthusiastically if this was what they would do.

This guy is a Conservative staffer.

Not to be rude, but what's wrong with his face?

And now the apology...lmao

Ouch.

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Canada has no foreign policy. That's not only La Chignon's doing but we need a leader with a strategy for this country, domestically and internationally.

Today he's conceded it was a "mistake" and he "regrets" it.

So, done and dusted and now back to virtue via haiku!

I’m glad that old hag Deb Schulte got voted out.

He's hot and every mistake is forgiven.

Ugly, fat people like OP wouldn't understand this type of privilege though.

He has a lisp and a big nose like a boil that needs lancing. He is not hot.

I hope he dies the day after Trump

No one bought his apology and he got shredded at Kamloops the other day.

[quote] He's hot

He's as hot and self-obsessed as Derek Zoolander.

Vapid star fucker. Just look at his Cabinet (Seamus O Regan, Marci Ien).

Why is Cabinet taking so long?

R187 No idea. It's been more than a month since the election and we still have no idea when the Throne Speech is going to be. And now Trudeau has sent the Governor General off on a state visit to Germany and then likely a visit to London to meet the Queen so she likely won't be back until at least next week. It kind of feels like Trudeau has just run out of fucks to give and is coasting probably because he know this is his last term.

Maybe he will announce a flounce at Christmas. The Aga Khan's beach is far preferable to Ottawa, Jan. through March, but he can't really do that without a shitfest in the media.

They better be blowing the cabinet up.

The Cabinet list has leaked online.