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Should've done it weeks ago. Utterly shameless.

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I'm out of the loop. What happened weeks ago to spur this?

The linked article isn't particularly helpful.

Well, he's not had the best holiday season, lots of turmoil in his cabinet and parliament has been completely stalled.

Since early 2023, Trudeau has been having a rough time - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/sophie-gregoire-trudeau...

He ordered the finance minister to walk the metaphorical plank and she did not acquiesce

Reckless spending commitments that were challenged by the Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Favourite to take over I might add.

Are you kidding? He should have done this way before that... Didn't he lose his marriage from this? I feel sorry for the guy. It's a tough job...

The one upside here is we should get to see the foreign interference report before any new election, but otherwise agreed.

Well, I mean he has a history of just burying his head in the sand with every controversy and eventually they all went away after a short time.

The strategy clearly worked for him until it didn't.

Good point.

very true. love him or hate him, Trudeau deserves credit for surviving not just sexual assault allegations, but also the infamous blackface/brownface pictures[0], all during the height of #MeToo and leftist focus on identity politics. he wisely identified that the correct response was no response, except for notably stating that the sexual assault accuser simply "experienced their encounter differently"[1]. a lesser politician would have apologized, a tacit admission of guilt, and been forced to resign.

this isn't meant to be snippy or sarcastic, either. he was genuinely excellent at playing the political game and protecting his own career.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-2019-trudeau-b...

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/people-experience-things-differen...

Don't leave out the SNC-Lavalin ethics breaches!

was anyone trading this on the prediction markets? only checked Polymarket, saw 3, but they didn't look very large

could have been a good time!

There’s some impetus to stay on to bring some stability when Trump comes into office. A Shock Doctrine approach (new leader at the same time as the US gets one) is going to create an environment where a number of regressive policies will get pushed through.

There’s a good chance Trump will say that he endorses Pierre Pollievre in the coming months causing a number of Canadians to turn their nose at him. This is also a calculated risk.

More Canadians approve of Trump than of Trudeau

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/canadians-want-a-to...

Poll is about an individual, not direction of the country.

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