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What Does Justin Trudeau Leave Behind in Canada?

January 8, 2025 By Richard C. Young

Ottawa (Canada), March 5, 2024.- As part of his international agenda, President Daniel Noboa held a meeting with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Photo courtesy of the President of the Republic of Ecuador. Photographs: Jonathan Miranda/ Presidency of the Republic

In The Spectator, Jane Stannus calls outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s legacy “bleak.” She writes:

He’s gone — but he’s not gone. As per his announcement in Ottawa on Monday, one of Canada’s most disliked prime ministers is finally set to exit the political stage. First sworn in on November 4, 2015, Justin Trudeau will resign once the Liberal Party has chosen his successor. It is a process that may take some time.

Trudeau started out as prime minister by promising “sunny ways.” Instead his regime delivered a tumultuous decade of radical social and legal change, achieved by methods that were frequently high-handed and occasionally unprecedented (such as the debanking of protestors).

Under his leadership, Canada doubled its national debt, legalized marijuana, witnessed homicides and gun crime skyrocket, and saw overdose deaths quadruple, while assisted suicide went from a criminal act to Canada’s fifth leading cause of death. Not so sunny, after all.

During the pandemic Trudeau’s administration imposed some of the most repressive health restrictions in the world. This led to the 2022 truckers’ protests and border blockades. A viral photo of anti-mandate protestors sitting in inflatable hot tubs amid the February snow on Parliament Hill will probably end up being one of the iconic images of Trudeau’s premiership during this time. The other will probably be the image of a masked police officer riding on horseback over a fallen protestor in the street.

Trudeau has always been a curious mix of ruthlessness and juvenility — confidently invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act to disperse a protest, for instance, but prone to such unseriousness as dressing himself and his family in traditional Indian garb for an official tour of that country, a matter of some diplomatic embarrassment. Yet his interest in costume was felt to be so patently sincere that he was able to shrug off photos of his younger self in blackface as an excess of enthusiasm — an explanation which few other politicians in this era could get away with.

During his time in office, he went out of his way to stoke anti-religious sentiment. When the nominally Catholic Trudeau first became leader of the Liberal party in 2014, he announced that all Liberal MPs, regardless of faith or conscience, had to vote pro-choice on pain of expulsion. After winning the election he doubled down, restricting government funding for groups that endorsed abortion.

Then in 2021, Trudeau chose to lend credence to the still unsubstantiated claims of mass graves at indigenous residential schools, which had been largely run by the Catholic Church (but also other Christian churches) on behalf of the Canadian government. Soon vandals and arsonists began attacking churches. More than 100 Canadian churches have been burned and many others vandalized since.

Trudeau’s legalization of marijuana has led to annual cannabis sales of nearly $5 billion. His administration also allowed British Columbia to begin a three-year trial period of decriminalizing the possession of hard drugs. Small quantities of drugs including fentanyl can now be carried there with impunity. Unsurprisingly, organized crime has come to view Canada as one of the most favorable countries for fentanyl manufacture and export.

Which is why soon-to-be President Donald Trump recently threatened Canada with a 25 percent tariff on all goods entering the US from Canada if the Canadian government doesn’t get a handle on illegal drug trafficking and migration — a tariff that would significantly harm the Canadian economy if left unaddressed.

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