It was not even three months ago, when it seemed that the Canadians could not wait for the end of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau almost a long -term leader. On January 6th, he announced his intention to resign from polls that show most Canadians deeply unhappy with their country’s situation.
But as Mr Trudeau, 53, officially resigned on Friday, his possessions have taken a remarkable series thanks to a prolonged aggression campaign against Canada by President Trump.
Through invoices that could lead to financial disasters and repeated verbal attacks on Canada’s domination, Mr Trump has ignited a wave of patriotism and Mr Trudeau’s skills and the skills have helped the nation.
“The Canadians are reasonable and we are polite, but we will not retreat from a race, not when our country and the prosperity of everyone are at stake,” he said after Mr Trump will soon impose 25 percent invoices. “What he wants is to see a complete collapse of the Canadian economy, because this will make it easier to annex us.”
Addressing the President informally as “Donald”, Mr Trudeau continued: “Even if you are a very smart guy, this is a very stupid thing to do.”
In such a full time, he is now delivering the reins for Mark Carney, a former leader of two major central banks, who was elected members of Mr Trudeau’s liberal party on Sunday to succeed the departing prime minister. Mr Carney was officially sworn in as the next Canadian leader on Friday.
Until Mr Trump began his platforms against Canada, which caused strong feelings of betrayal, anger and dissatisfaction, there was an increasing expectation that Mr Trudeau could abandon the liberal party in the way he found it in 2013.
The polls have steadily shown the liberals to deal with the opposing conservative party, with the gap reaching as high as the double digits.
Mr Trudeau’s decision to resign has begun to reverse transparency. But again, Mr Trump’s invoices against Canadian exports, his claims that Canada would be better if the 51st state became his depreciation to Mr Trudeau as a “ruler”, who drastically changed the political landscape.
The liberals have essentially deleted the lead they enjoy very much from the conservatives, and research shows that Canadians say they believe that Mr Carney will be better able to withstand Mr Trump by conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. In order to make use of this momentum, Mr Carney is expected to call shortly general elections that is now promising to be more challenged.
As Canada faced a Bellicose Mr Trump, Mr Trudeau leaned into the speech skills he used to reassure the country during the Covid pandemic and this helped bring him to power.
His power during a crisis is that “he suddenly comes strong, finds his feet and is able to formulate a largely emotional kind of reaction rather than a technocratic answer,” said Michael Atkinson, a professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
Still, on the domestic front, Mr Trudeau leaves a deeply problematic country, facing challenges that will be complex and expensive to deal with, including increasing housing costs and increasing grocery prices.
The picture of Mr Trudeau was very rosier after the revival of the liberal party and led her to a decisive victory in the October 2015 elections. It made climate change, feminism, reconciliation with the indigenous, top priorities of immigration and migration. During the pandemic, he introduced programs for workers and businesses that reduced the damage to the economy.
But the mood for Mr Trudeau began to shift as he was involved in personal and political failures.
The revelations about his love of dressing in Blackface or Brownface before entering politics undermine his support. He said he was “deeply sorry”, but many people dug his claim that the practice was not generally considered racist 20 years earlier. Some of the richest holidays that also received criticism.
And Mr Trudeau was widely regarded as intimidation of his government’s government, Jody Wilson-Raybould, a native lawyer who served as justice minister and Attorney General. He refused to attribute Mr Trudeau’s pressure to make an agreement with a Montreal -based mechanical company facing corruption. Mr Trudeau said he was acting to save jobs fearing for the company’s ability to bid to international conventions if he had a criminal conviction.
Ms Wilson-Raybould resigned from the cabinet and was then expelled from the liberal party.
But they were pocket issues that eventually sent the popularity of Mr Trudeau and the Liberals on a downward spiral, as the approach of his “sunny way” in politics wore its reception.
Driven by the consequences of Russia’s pandemic and invasion of Ukraine, the cost of living in Canada. Inflation was a global problem – it has risen higher and remains higher in the United States and Europe – but Canadian voters, as in other countries, did not tend to free their leaders. In some major cities, a typical starting home now costs $ 1 million in Canadian dollars, blocking economic mobility.
Mr Poilievre seized Mr Trudeau’s vulnerability to throw him relentlessly, often using simple three-word slogans-such as “Ax the Tax”, a reference to a carbon tax that Mr Carney has vowed to finish-which seemed better with the national mood.
When Mr Trudeau called for the party leadership 12 years ago, he told the New York Times that he was initially reluctant to continue his position because of “the quantity of rubbish that would be thrown into me and my family”.
He referred to some of the difficult times faced by his famous father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who was prime minister of Canada for more than 15 years, before leaving politics in 1984.
“This is the way politics are being done these days, even worse than when I was a kid,” he said in the Times interview. “I remember watching my parents go through some very difficult times.”
Underlining Mr Trudeau’s weakened appeal, the protest started by trucks paralyzing the center of Ottawa for almost a month in 2022 was for many of the participants for both the prime minister and the pandemic constraints.
The black flags that included a vulgarity before Mr Trudeau’s name still fly, if often faded and loosely, in many rural areas.
Mr Trudeau has not spoken publicly about what he will do next. But those who know him suggest a priority will be his family after being separated from his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, last year.
Marc Miller, who was Minister of Migration under Mr Trudeau and has been a friend with him since he was 11 years old, both of them in Montreal, predicted that he would return to a private life focusing on his three children.
“He probably wants to take some time to launch his brain,” Mr Miller said. “This is probably unsatisfactory for anyone who is really willing to hear what his next steps are, but there is the current state of his thinking.”
However, for the last few days, Mr Trudeau was very clear about what was in his mind.
In a farewell speech to the Liberals on Sunday, he reminded of Canada that the battles are sometimes necessary. He then gave two words that the Canadians who love hockey immediately understood and who had become a battle cry: “It is hired.”
