The Justin Trudeau brand is in trouble.
The fresh prince of politics from 2015 with a celebrity hairstyle and the aura of a rock star is heading to the summer of 2022 to inflation-induced Canadian discontent as a faded force of a person in need of a exit strategy.
You know that reputation happens when Trudeau becomes an unnamed star in the children’s book How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom, a satire on his work with the Freedom Convoy and vaccination mandates, which now top Amazon Canada’s bestseller list.
More seriously, there is concern about his leadership style when former senior bureaucrat Paul Tellier unfolds in Policy Options magazine, warning that Trudeau is a freak of office control is “in the process of destroying public service” and the word “destroying” is not. is too strong. “
“VERY WAKE UP, VERY STAGE”
And while this is hardly scientific, after a week-long survey of almost everyone I’ve met and many Liberals willing to vote, Trudeau’s overall assessment is like political write-offs, with body language alternating between irritation and twisting. eyes.
He is too alert, too precious, with a preaching tone, extremely complacent, deprived of leadership, fading into celebrity, slow in action, short-sighted in vision, and generally becoming more irritating with every breathless whispered public statement. And this is just the summary of one sentence.
As a prominent and wealthy 40-year-old Liberal supporter told me: “I will not send them another penny until he is gone. He is weak. “
Trudeau, of course, certainly does not pay attention to all this. He didn’t even stop snoring during the question period on Tuesday, although he seemed to have big trouble answering questions without reading a script as he was dealing with a second COVID-19 infection.
It was a frightening series of questions that required all his cunning talent to avoid reading unanswered questions. He had to defend his foreign minister for allowing a bureaucrat to attend a Russian caviar party in Ottawa, his public safety minister to promote a carrier, that police asked for an emergency law to deal with with the convoy of freedom (they didn’t) and rejecting a government analysis received by the Globe that shows that its 2030 emissions targets will be extremely difficult to achieve.
It’s a theatrical work, as usual for Trudeau, but it delivers hiccups in the performance far beyond the Common.
Take the recently concluded North and South American Summit, where Trudeau’s meeting with US President Joe Biden produced a lot of jargon and rhetoric, but not a whisper of achievement, to fix our hitherto unproductive relationship.
While Trudeau is the so-called G7 dean in terms of political longevity, he did not even try to persuade Biden to reconsider the decommissioned Keystone pipeline or thwart the Michigan governor’s threat to kill the Line 5 pipeline at a time when the United States was playing with dictator-ruled Venezuela to alleviate the energy price crisis.
Even when Trudeau is triggered, his motivation seems suspicious.
The Wall Street Journal recently mocked Trudeau for responding to events in the United States by tightening Canadian gun laws after the Texas school massacre and reiterating a woman’s right to abortion in Canada before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. month. “Obviously, Canadian politics is too boring, or economical, or something like that,” the editorial said. “If he wants to influence US policy, we recommend that he emigrate and run for Congress.
But most of all, Trudeau just doesn’t work. As Globe columnist Campbell Clark noted, seeking the prime minister’s hesitation to end vaccine mandates, “political inertia” revolves around a lazy liberal government where “without political impetus to do something, nothing is done by default.” . Well said.
WILL TRUDO BE ELECTED FOR RE-ELECTION?
Many of Trudeau’s commitments discussed – be it targets for the immigration of Afghan translators, resettlement in Ukraine, targets for greenhouse gas emissions, actions to reconcile indigenous peoples or even plant billions of trees – are over-promises sent for long-term study. to eventually not be met.
Recently, an insistent political operative insisted to me that after participating in negotiations with Trudeau for a deal to influence the government with the NDP, she was convinced that Trudeau was running for re-election to give him enough time to borrow his legacy.
If so, his volatile demonstration of genuine leadership should reward conservatives with a government mandate in the next election.
But Trudeau was very lucky in politics, so unless the coronation-bound Conservative candidate Pierre Poalever turns to mainstream thinking, the hard-line Conservatives may not get what it takes to remove Trudeau from a fourth term.
Speaking of targeting the current sign of the prime minister’s ill status, his media party at 24 Sussex Dr. returns Wednesday with Trudeau away in isolation from COVID. I asked a colleague if the missing celebrity presenter would interfere with the gallery’s press presence. “In fact, I think it would be much better without him.
There is no doubt that many liberals think the same way about their party under Justin Trudeau.
This is the conclusion.
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