Trump Wants Trudeau Out: Canada No Longer Rules Its Own House

How to win friends and influence Americans. By Justin Trudeau, the most self-unaware canary to ever escape his cage. The man who’s currently having a schvitz over Donald Trump interfering in Canadian politics had no problem lecturing the United States in December for not electing the DEI queen Kamala Harris.

Pandering to the feminist group Equal Voice, Trudeau wagged his finger. ”We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, march towards progress. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president," adding that "women's rights and women's progress" are ‘under attack’."

The Klaus Schwab marionette, who dismissed his own sexual-assault charge with a blithe “she experienced it differently”, now says, "I want you to know that I am and always will be a proud feminist… You will always have an ally in me and my government.” Naturally the far-left chorus was thrilled at a Canadian PM holding himself out to be morally superior to the U.S. voting public.

This on the heels of the postmodernist telling CNN, "One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we’re not American.” As you might expect this sneering was poorly received by Donald Trump who had just won a resounding mandate to smash the Woke establishment that has metastasized through government and business. As part of that change Trump’s asking Canada to do a few things. 

Canadian financier Kevin O’Leary lists the ask. “Start spending on security for the northern border. Pay your two percent to NATO. Stop sending fentanyl from China over the border into the United States or you're going to face tariffs.” The stick to that carrot is a 25 percent tariff on CDN goods.  

The initial reaction was to let Trump’s talk of a 51st state blow itself out. Canada’s Liberal government thought then it would business-as-usual. “We don’t do business this way in Canada,” insisted Team Trudeau. When that delaying strategy failed Trudeau quickly announced he would step down as PM after a protracted nomination process. Oh, and did we say he would shut down Parliament till the Libs did their business?  

Bad idea. Thursday, Trump reiterated his demands to the WEF. While he had polite things to say about almost everyone— including the WEF— he pointedly said that America doesn’t need CDN oil or other products. To prove it, many of the executive orders Trump has signed are daggers at Canada’s casual approach to its responsibilities.  He’s made it clear he’s not waiting till March to find a willing negotiating partner. He wants Trudeau and the Liberals out before he cuts Canada some slack.

Noted environmental critic Ross McKittrick catalogued the lengthy challenges to Canada’s environment, energy, defence and DEI in Trump’s EOs. “Our current federal and provincial governments may want to pretend this isn't happening, but it just did. We already have trouble attracting foreign investment and the competitiveness gap just opened very very wide

“(The EO barrage) gives the EPA 60 days to address the fact that the Social Cost of Carbon is "marked by logical deficiencies, a poor basis in empirical science, politicization, and the absence of a foundation in legislation… Taken together these Executive Orders are remarkably detailed and fine-tuned to wipe out all forms of climate regulation and other barriers to US hydrocarbon energy development (including coal). They not only prescribe agency actions but simultaneously undercut the basis of future legal challenges…”

In short, a complacent Canadian population is about to be left far behind by an aggressive Trump energy and administrative renaissance. Nowhere was that turnabout more evident than at the Thursday speech to the WEF potentates in Davos. While Schwab insisted that he and his pals were still in control, Trump eviscerated them, repeating his plans to blow up the Paris Climate Accord, drop interest rates, use tariffs to bring competitors to heel,  free speech from the EU censors and end wars across the globe. By the end the WEF bosses were flabbergasted while the international bankers who’d shunned him in 2016 were asking can we work together, Mr. President?

But Trudeau & Co are still partying under the notion that they are in control of their narrative. Having baffled Canadians for almost a decade they never thought that Trump would end their primacy.  But now it’s happening. The gig’s up. They are in Trump’s hands now.

For those wondering how it got to this point where the nation faces external and internal peril, look no further than these kamikaze attacks on Americans by the son of Pierre Trudeau, previously the most imperious man to be PM. Writing cheques with his mouth PMJT now asks Team Canada to back them up with its butt. Suggesting Canada change their brand of ketchup (now debunked) is typical of this spurious approach.

PMJT is comforted by a sunset media bent on calling anyone engaging with Trump a traitor. And stale-dated 20th century political figures like Jean Chretien. The problem for Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s pragmatic energy lobbying is that she’s being drowned out by Leftist media claims that her trip south is a failure, a treason. This just in: When Trump crushes the Family Compact of Libs and NDeepers he will need someone to talk to. That will be Smith and maybe— maybe— Pierre Poilievre.

Not everyone is being so stubborn with Trump asks. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told President Donald Trump he’s now willing to expand investments and trade with the US in the coming four years by $600 billion. That following Trump’s telling him that a visit to SA was contingent on a big investment in America. Trump is now happy. It’s that easy.

Is it pretty? No, but it’s how realpolitik gets done when someone else holds the whip hand. A lesson much of Canada would prefer to ignore if it covers them with virtue. Unless the Liberals get someone other than a climate kook in place to negotiate now or hold a snap election this will end badly for Trudeau Canada. And the fingerprints of Canada’s Left will be all over the corpse.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org. You can see all his books at brucedowbigginbooks.ca.