As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comes to the end of a terrible year, it’s hard not to admire the audacity of his hopes.
The prime minister faced marital separation at home, endured political challenges across Canada and sparked a global controversy in 2023.
Yet he defiantly declares, without giving an inch, that he will persevere to win the next campaign, an optimistic expectation with little supporting evidence. .
Struck by an inability to take consistent action on many issues, faced with red-hot budget deficits that would handcuff even the most determined spenders, battered by opinion polls that seem beyond repair, Canadian prime ministers are faced with a history of having their dreams of consecutive years in office ridiculed, but something is not quite right. Prime Minister Trudeau has done it for the first time in 111 years.
Perhaps it’s a character flaw, but it’s conceivable that it might just as easily be seen as an emotional survival strategy of confronting so many jagged obstacles and seeing only a clear runway ahead. Masu.
After all, Prime Minister Trudeau and a handful of others saw the Liberals jump from third place to majority responsibility in 2015.
But silencing his increasingly loud protests against Israel and Gaza’s puzzling positions, ignoring flirtatious greetings at restaurants, and allowing himself to see only rainbows among so many storm clouds. It takes a person who is part delusional, part narcissist, and mostly rosy to be. – Personality that wears glasses.
Even more difficult is maintaining a positive outlook in the face of an increasingly dark and frightening new year.
Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal Party fundraiser on Monday, December 11, 2023, in Gatineau, Kenya.Canadian Press/Adrian Wilde
Even if we erase the fears of a Russia-Ukraine war or an Israel-Hamas war, Prime Minister Trudeau’s political sphere is a sharply divided nation.
There is no doubt that we are more polarized than we were in 1991. Keith Spicer Committee A year later, the Conservative government’s majority was reduced to two seats, in recognition of the “domestic outrage” directed at then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
It’s the West vs. Ottawa, Quebec vs. the rest of the English-speaking world, carbon tax payers vs. tax exempts, climate change skeptics vs. hard-core environmentalists, vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, Israelis vs. Palestinians. . . It is a collection of vitriolic opinions that almost goes against the rule of the people by a mere mortal prime minister.
Meanwhile, the poll numbers continue to fall. While one pollster recently detected a rebound in the Liberals’ fortunes, only 21% of those surveyed supported Trudeau as prime minister, compared to Conservative leadership, according to Nanos Research. 33% of people supported Pierre Poièvre.
This highlights how 2023 was a year in which voters’ fears about what Poilievre could do as prime minister were overshadowed by their distaste for Justin Trudeau as prime minister.
This leaves the Liberal Party in a situation where it is rapidly losing a leader with no obvious successor, no obvious challenger, and no intention of stepping down.
His promise to lead the Liberal Party into the next election is now being proclaimed frequently and passionately, and Mr. Trudeau risks considerable reputational damage if he suddenly admits that it was all just a ruse and resigns. be.
The new year could make or break Trudeau’s chances of a comeback as the Liberals enter the final stages of their partnership with the NDP.
As Canada’s economy falls into recession, his adversaries will pick up even higher caliber ammunition to crush his rescue efforts.
If Donald Trump is re-elected, his hated Trudeau will be one of many targets in front of the vengeful president.
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet before the NATO Roundtable at The Grove Hotel & Resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 (AP Photo) /Frank Augstein)
If home prices regain their upward momentum, Prime Minister Trudeau will be accused of making basic housing an asset reserved for billionaires.
Prime Minister Trudeau already has a considerable legacy to call his own, so his desire to persevere in the face of so much adversity for further punishment is all the more perplexing.
Anyway pot legalization, canada child allowance, childcare subsidythrowing open his vault Pandemic response and a fledgling dental care Along with the coverage Pharmacare nationwide With a plan that looks ahead to 2024, Justin Trudeau has added a popular change agent to Canadian society. When it comes to saving for the future, even Prime Minister Poilievre won’t try to figure it out.
These country-defining programs will leave a mark on Justin Trudeau long after he retires from surfing in Tofino, and they’re more than enough for him to leave with his head held high today.
but . . . still . . . He is rolling the dice against expectations. Love him or hate him, it’s hard not to have at least some grudging admiration for Trudeau’s fierce, unyielding, and completely irrational personal ambitions.
This is the bottom line for 2023. We’ll be back in 2024. happy new year.
