07-03-2025
WARMINGTON: Trudeau cries way out of office as Ford stands strong against Trump
There's no crying in politics — especially when your country is at war.
Too late in this case. The damage is done. It's what happens when you're led for a decade by a drama teacher.
In Canada, you have one leader with a new mandate who stands strong in the face of adversity, while there is another one on his way out, with no mandate, fighting tears.
Teary-eyed, self-declared feminist Justin Trudeau said Thursday that it has been the 'honour of my life serving Canadians' in one of his last soliloquies as prime minister. He really seems to still think it's all about him.
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'On a personal level, I have made sure that every single day in this office I put Canadians first,' said Trudeau, 'and I have people's backs and that's why I'm here to tell you all that we got you. Even in the very last days of this government, we will not let Canadians down today and long into the future.'
Boo hoo!
Calling Thursday his latest difficult day, Trudeau lamented to laughter that 'I've had 10 years of Donald Trump, a historic once-in-a-century pandemic, inflation crises, war in Ukraine as Russia returns to war in Europe, as the Middle East is facing extraordinarily difficult situations.'
Break out the violins. And Kleenex. Trudeau has also had a decade of five-star travel at our expense while focusing on a woke agenda, while our people go further into debt and contemplate going to a food bank.
Clearly from the outrageous talk of making Canada the 51st state to the bizarre suggestions of wanting to re-adjust the Canada/U.S. border, Trump has eaten Trudeau up and spit him out on the sidewalk. This tariff war is more like an economic endurance war. Trudeau is a casualty of it. Trump has beaten him and Trudeau has no more method-acting tricks he can pull out.
'These have been complicated times,' said Trudeau. 'This is the job I signed up for. This is the job I will continue to do until the very last moment I'm doing this job.'
Perhaps serve some cheese with that whine. From teddy bear props to dressing up in costumes, it's all theatre to Trudeau. It's all a stage for his ego. Everything is a scripted performance.
Compare that to Premier Doug Ford, who spoke Friday at a Meadowvale Business Association breakfast in Mississauga and doubled down on putting a surcharge on Ontario energy heading south — this after taking American booze off LCBO shelves. The premier understands this is a war and he is not going to go up and down with Trump's whims and moods. He's set a line in the sand and means it.
'I will always be there to protect you,' said Ford. 'That's why I will be absolutely clear: Until President Trump removes tariffs completely and permanently, Ontario will not back down in our response … Canada will never be the 51st state.'
There was no drama from Ford. No yelling, complaining or crying. Just a quiet, firm and clear message to Trump that your country may be bigger on the world stage, but it is not tougher. Ford has articulated well that if you mess with Canada, we will not back down or bawl like babies. There was no background music or rehearsed stunts. Just straight talk. There was also a standing ovation.
When it comes to Trudeau and Ford, which one do you think Trump has more concern about? Sure, Trudeau's friends in the media will spin this bizarre spectacle of faux emotion as an illustration of the outgoing prime minister's love for Canada. But few are playing along anymore. Everybody saw that Trudeau said Canadians will continue to boo the U.S. anthem, while Ford said Canadians and Americans should never boo an opposing anthem.
While I did get some pushback from an X post saying Trudeau is 'weak. Pathetic. Useless. Failed. And defeated,' it's important to say it was an analysis of his current political reality and it was not about him personally. He may be swell to his friends and family. But for Canadians, he's done.
The curtain is drawing down and it's time for Trudeau to exit. This is supposed to happen as early as Sunday and it can't happen fast enough as Canada is in an economic free fall. Millions were already struggling to pay their rent or mortgages and put groceries on the table before Trump was elected and talking tariffs. It's all on Trudeau, who had no problem taking people's jobs away when they didn't want to get vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic and who called people who disagreed with him as holding 'unacceptable views' and other nasty names.
But he's still spewing the nonsensical stuff he has gotten away with since 2015.
'We want to continue to be strong and resolute in our response and we will continue to be there for each other because the unity that Canadians are feeling right now is actually the most important thing in being able to stand up against the trading partner that is much bigger than us,' Trudeau said after his 'heated' call with Trump.
While Trudeau goes on about Canadians being 'so united and unequivocal about standing up for our country, standing up for our fellow citizens and being very, very firm that this is an absolutely unjustified and unjustifiable trade war launched by the Americans,' what he doesn't say is it won't be him working on it anymore.
Whoever it is needs to understand one thing they can never do in front of anti-woke Trump: Pretend to cry.
