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Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

YZT580 said:
so if Trudeau is in Hawaii, who is in charge of the asylum?
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perhaps worth a read: dianefrancis@substack.com here is the intro: Canada has just joined a growing list of rich democracies that cannot get their political or economic act together. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way out. The electorate is fed up with financial problems, high taxation, and unscreened immigration. Similar political battles plague two other G7 nations, France and Germany. All three governments sag because they prioritized social engineering and political correctness over enterprise and economic development. Their electorates are divided. Worse, the Europeans live in a dangerous region and wrestle with re-arming, a flood of Ukrainian refugees, and fending off Russian cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, and political interference. Meanwhile, Canada has one of the world’s most incredible natural resource endowments but has yet to meet its NATO spending commitments and relies on American military protection. It also hasn’t secured its border with the United States, and smuggling has upset Donald Trump. He recently dubbed Trudeau a “governor” and Canada “the 51st state,” and his ally, Elon Musk, who is a Canadian citizen, called Trudeau “an insufferable tool” who “won’t be in power for much longer.”
 
Andrew Coyne says that it’s not just because Trudeau is vain, arrogant and out of touch, but the centralized nature of power in the PMO that exacerbates this. Changing the PM and their staff won’t fix things.

Sorry, it’s paywalled.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: The problem isn’t Trudeau; it’s that prime ministers have too much power

Canadian prime ministers have always been powerful, but lately, it has been taken to unprecedented extremes
www.theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com

Heads of government are powerful in any system. But ours have amassed powers that are without equal, if not without limit. A president of the United States controls the executive but not the legislative branch. He cannot be assured of passage of his legislation, even where one or both houses of Congress are controlled by his party.
A prime minister in a European parliament, meanwhile, must typically share power with the other parties in his governing coalition, rather than the single-party majority governments more typical of Westminster-based parliaments, such as ours.
Yet even among Westminster systems, the powers of a Canadian prime minister stand out. Not only is party discipline enforced much more strictly here, but many of the conventions that still constrain prime ministers in Britain, Australia and New Zealand have been allowed to lapse in Canada.
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Rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic.

www.ctvnews.ca

PM Justin Trudeau planning to oversee long-awaited cabinet shuffle on Friday: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to shuffle his cabinet on Friday, sources confirm to CTV News. The long-awaited reconfiguration of Trudeau's front bench comes amid turmoil for the Liberal government after the shocking resignation of Chrystia Freeland, and as a few ministers juggle...
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
 
Quirky said:
Rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic.

www.ctvnews.ca

PM Justin Trudeau planning to oversee long-awaited cabinet shuffle on Friday: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to shuffle his cabinet on Friday, sources confirm to CTV News. The long-awaited reconfiguration of Trudeau's front bench comes amid turmoil for the Liberal government after the shocking resignation of Chrystia Freeland, and as a few ministers juggle...
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
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Perhaps there was a drop down error in the Outlook Calendar invite from Rideau Hall?

"Cabinet Appointment" must be close to "Prorogation Audience" methinks.
 
Has anyone seen our PM lately?

Conspicuous - by his absence. Reflecting must be hard....
 
YZT580 said:
perhaps worth a read: dianefrancis@substack.com here is the intro: Canada has just joined a growing list of rich democracies that cannot get their political or economic act together. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way out. The electorate is fed up with financial problems, high taxation, and unscreened immigration. Similar political battles plague two other G7 nations, France and Germany. All three governments sag because they prioritized social engineering and political correctness over enterprise and economic development. Their electorates are divided. Worse, the Europeans live in a dangerous region and wrestle with re-arming, a flood of Ukrainian refugees, and fending off Russian cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, and political interference. Meanwhile, Canada has one of the world’s most incredible natural resource endowments but has yet to meet its NATO spending commitments and relies on American military protection. It also hasn’t secured its border with the United States, and smuggling has upset Donald Trump. He recently dubbed Trudeau a “governor” and Canada “the 51st state,” and his ally, Elon Musk, who is a Canadian citizen, called Trudeau “an insufferable tool” who “won’t be in power for much longer.”
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Diane Francis also has a book on the subject.

 
YZT580 said:
perhaps worth a read: dianefrancis@substack.com here is the intro: Canada has just joined a growing list of rich democracies that cannot get their political or economic act together. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way out. The electorate is fed up with financial problems, high taxation, and unscreened immigration. Similar political battles plague two other G7 nations, France and Germany. All three governments sag because they prioritized social engineering and political correctness over enterprise and economic development. Their electorates are divided. Worse, the Europeans live in a dangerous region and wrestle with re-arming, a flood of Ukrainian refugees, and fending off Russian cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, and political interference. Meanwhile, Canada has one of the world’s most incredible natural resource endowments but has yet to meet its NATO spending commitments and relies on American military protection. It also hasn’t secured its border with the United States, and smuggling has upset Donald Trump. He recently dubbed Trudeau a “governor” and Canada “the 51st state,” and his ally, Elon Musk, who is a Canadian citizen, called Trudeau “an insufferable tool” who “won’t be in power for much longer.”
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I subscribe to her - interesting viewpoints
 
RangerRay said:
Andrew Coyne says that it’s not just because Trudeau is vain, arrogant and out of touch, but the centralized nature of power in the PMO that exacerbates this. Changing the PM and their staff won’t fix things.
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It absolutely will. PMO is the PM’s personal construct. PMO is as powerful or as advisorial as the PM directs the Clerk of the Privy Council to adhere to PMO (and let’s be clear, the Chief of Staff of PMO, currently Katie Telford) direction.

PCO, with the Clerk as ‘DM GoC’, is the superior administrative element of Government, and SHOULD BE the official construct through which Government policy and implementation is controlled and affected…not subservient to the PMO.
 
Good2Golf said:
It absolutely will. PMO is the PM’s personal construct. PMO is as powerful or as advisorial as the PM directs the Clerk of the Privy Council to adhere to PMO (and let’s be clear, the Chief of Staff of PMO, currently Katie Telford) direction.

PCO, with the Clerk as ‘DM GoC’, is the superior administrative element of Government, and SHOULD BE the official construct through which Government policy and implementation is controlled and affected…not subservient to the PMO.
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This the PCO you're talking about?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869747011404116141
 
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