Trudeau says he will remain in the role until the governing Liberal Party chooses a new leader.
  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7210·
    4 days ago

    and people scoffed when i said shit’s going to get worse worldwide because of trump…

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      243·
      4 days ago

      And even now, I scoff! But, like, in a “no duh” agreeing kind of way.

      The same immigrants who told me not to worry about Trump were the same ones telling me that their homeland was justified in punishing/purging x people because “it’s global politics” and that I’m “too American” to understand. The same people who told me that the US president can’t affect the rest of the world’s politics because “each country has their own independent government.”

      I swear, if I told these people that I had cancer in my toe, they’d tell me to not get it treated because it’s not anywhere important.

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
    111·
    3 days ago

    I’m surprised by the backlash, this is Liberal’s only chance. I know it’s fun for the armchair political analysts to poke fun at the ones analyzing for money, but we can all see the same writing on the wall. Incumbents are fuckin losing, all around the world, to far-right challengers. The U.S. Democratic tried and utterly failed to change the optics on their party being responsible for corporations using a fucking pandemic as a smokescreen to tighten the clamps of late-stage capitalism with price hikes that will never come down. Liberal still has to find a way to sell change from the status quo if they want to stay in power, so they’re taking a gamble. Maybe the issue really was that Biden dropped out too late, or maybe Americans really are dumber than Canadians. Either way, it was take this gamble of have a guaranteed loss. It’ll be interesting to see who takes Trudeau’s place, and whether they can sell themselves as enough of a difference in the ~8 months they’ll have.

  • blindsight@beehaw.org
    7·
    3 days ago

    Proroguing Parliament for 2½ months to pick a new leader isn’t a good look for the Liberals on this one, but I can see why they went for it. That’s a lot of news cycles for things to cool off before a likely election.

    I doubt it will be enough to keep the anti-trans bigot party from winning a majority government, sadly.

    • fosho@lemmy.caEnglish
      73·
      3 days ago

      found another dufus. the only people cheering are the “fuck Trudeau” camp who are too daft to realize that we’ll get much worse instead or who know this and want it.

      the world slides further away from progress.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        I’m not Canadian but fuck Trudeau and the liberal party for campaigning on replacing First-past-the-post voting and then shrugging his shoulders and doing jack shit when the election was over.

        We really are more alike then we like to admit. Just the same humans in a different location.

        Here is a video on the history of council housing in the UK. Seems like yall need to share it with each other up north der (us too, thanks).

        Peace.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        26·
        3 days ago

        So the guy who wears blackface and encourages the poor to kill themselves was a good leader for Canada?

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
          51·
          3 days ago

          Wasn’t the blackface thing decades ago?

          Still problematic sure but extremely disingenuous to present it in the present tense as if it’s happening right now (unless there’s something I don’t know).

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
            24·
            3 days ago

            True, the whole “Kill the poor and pretend its medicine.” thing though… that’s much worse.

            No really they made a whole commercial trying to glamorize it and everything.

            • tweeks@feddit.nlEnglish
              41·
              3 days ago

              Well it’s mostly that at least a certain group with disabilities has access to a way out when life is too harsh. It is to limit unneeded suffering. A respectful way to end one’s life should be available to everyone, but that is a hard pill to swallow for many neurotypical / religious people. So it gets limited to a certain group, and then they use that compromise as an argument…

              You don’t decide whether you are born, at least let us have more control over our own death. In a progression of our human civilization, this should count for everyone.

              Framing this in a bad way is exactly what some conservative politicians and media want.