Also Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: He couldn’t get through that statement without crying.
As you may have heard, things aren’t going too swimmingly for the man America’s president calls the governor of the 51st state. Faced with a potential shellacking from the Conservative Party and leader Pierre Poilievre at the polls this year, Trudeau did the manly thing and decided to take his ball and go home. In early January, he announced that he would leave the prime ministership once his party holds a leadership election later this month.
Lately, however, Trudeau has been getting melodramatic, particularly after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped another round of tariffs on Canada.This had nothing, however, on his lachrymose Thursday media briefing in Ottawa in which he talked about what he would do during “a transition to my duly elected successor,” promising not to be a “caretaker” prime minister, according to CTV News.
“On a personal level, I’ve made sure that every single day in this office, I put Canadians first,” Trudeau said. “That I have people’s backs.
“And that’s why I’m here to tell you all, we got you. Even in the very last days of this government, we will not let Canadians down — today, and long into the future.”
He went on to promise, he would “lock in, to become something that no government a year from now, five years from now, 20 years from now, could ever go back on.”
It wasn’t what he said — although that was bad enough — but how he said it:That’s normal. Completely, totally normal. And sane, too. I’d ask who had the codes to Canada’s nuclear weapons, but Canada has no nuclear weapons. So, um, who has the codes to the strategic maple syrup stockpile
Just to be clear, the eldest son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau — a man of hardened intellect and keen political instincts, who governed Canada as prime minister from 1968 to 1979, then from 1980 to 1984, and is ranked among his country’s finest leaders — cannot get through a news conference without breaking down like a high schooler who got dumped. At least he didn’t bring out “peoplekind” in the process.
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It’s probably worth noting the contrast between Trudeau and the man he would have faced had he stayed as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre:I feel like we need a supercut of these two clips, just to juxtapose the choice Canada has to make between the two parties. Because, just be clear: Whoever inherits the mantle of Justin Trudeau will not be significantly different than Justin Trudeau, policy-wise. They may break down less, they may be more manly — even if they’re a female, to be honest — but the policies won’t be significantly different. And that’s the point.
I’m not sure if Trudeau is crying because he knows that’ll be his legacy, because he lacks any sort of self-respect or emotional regulation skills at this juncture in his personal and professional lives, or just because he needs to be reading the labels on his prescription bottles more closely. However, one thing is for sure: This is inarguably the Justin Trudeau-iest way for Justin Trudeau to go out.
I’m not sure if Trudeau is crying because he knows that’ll be his legacy, because he lacks any sort of self-respect or emotional regulation skills at this juncture in his personal and professional lives, or just because he needs to be reading the labels on his prescription bottles more closely. However, one thing is for sure: This is inarguably the Justin Trudeau-iest way for Justin Trudeau to go out.
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