WATCH: Trudeau Announces Intention To Resign As Liberal Leader & Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is staying on until the Liberals pick a new leader. Parliament will be prorogued until late March.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s time in office is coming to an end.

Trudeau has announced his resignation as Liberal Party Leader, which will set off a Liberal leadership race.

The winner of that race will become the next Prime Minister, since Parliament is being prorogued until March 24th.

As a result, Canada will be led by a lame-duck Prime Minister during trade negotiations with the United States.

Justin Trudeau is doing what's best for Justin Trudeau, not what's best for Canada. Why didn't this happen on Dec.6? Nov.6? Oct.6? We could have had an election and a government with a clear mandate going into 2025 instead of paralysis and leadership drama for the first 100 days.

— James Moore (@honjamesmoore) January 6, 2025

Now, in the middle of one of the most important negotiations with our most important ally in Canadian history, Liberals are going to force us to sit through 3 months of lame duck governance so that they can continue to give out goodies to their friends.

The country be damned.

— Anthony Koch (@Anthony__Koch) January 6, 2025

There are also significant foreign interference concerns, given how open to manipulation the Liberal leadership process is:

Your reminder that the Liberal Party both allows non-citizens to vote in their Leadership Races AND quite literally gives out memberships for free.

Talk about a goldmine for malicious foreign actors looking to influence our politics.

— Anthony Koch (@Anthony__Koch) January 6, 2025

And so, even in resigning, Justin Trudeau has managed to do so in the most self-serving way possible, weakening Canada at such a perilous time for our nation.

Spencer Fernando

Photo – YouTube

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