The Justin Trudeau brand is in trouble.
The new political prince of 2015 with celebrity hair and rock star aura delves into a summer 2022 of inflation-driven Canadian discontent as a faded personality force in need of an exit strategy.
You know there is a reputation for success when Trudeau becomes the unnamed star of a children’s book “How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom,” a satire on his handling of the Freedom Convoy and vaccination warrants. which is now at the top of Amazon Canada’s bestseller list.
In a more serious sense, there is an alarm about his leadership style when former bureaucrat Paul Tellier is released in Policy Options magazine, warning that Trudeau’s control maneuver of an office is “in the process of destroying public service … and the word “destroy” is not too strong. “
“TOO awake, too beautiful”
And while that’s not very scientific, after a week-long poll of almost everyone I’ve met, and many of them liberal by vote, Trudeau’s general judgment is that it’s a cancellation. politics with his body language alternating between exasperation and blank eyes.
He’s too awake, too beautiful, a preaching tone, too fat, lacking leadership, fading into celebrity, slow to act, short-sighted, and generally more irritating with every breathless whispered public utterance. And this is just the summary of one sentence.
As one prominent and wealthy 40-year-old Liberal supporter told me: “I will not send them another penny until they are gone. He’s skinny. “
Trudeau is, of course, unaware of all this. He didn’t even break a slap during question period on Tuesday, though he seemed to have big trouble answering questions without reading a script while facing a second COVID-19 infection.
It was a daunting series of questions that required all his talent to dodge to read the unanswered questions. He needed to protect his foreign minister to allow a bureaucrat to attend a Russian caviar party in Ottawa, his public safety minister to promote a nosebleed that police called for the Emergency Act to deal with. Freedom Convoy (they didn’t) and ignore a government analysis obtained at Globe that shows that its 2030 emissions targets will be extremely difficult to achieve.
This is a theatrical business as usual for Trudeau, but it is offering performance issues far beyond the common ones.
Take the recently concluded Summit of the Americas, where Trudeau’s meeting with US President Joe Biden produced a lot of slang and rhetoric, but not a whisper of success in fixing our hitherto unproductive relationship.
Although Trudeau is the so-called dean of the G7 in terms of political longevity, he did not even try to convince Biden to reconsider the dry Keystone pipeline or thwart the Michigan governor’s threat to kill the Line 5 pipeline. , this at a time when the United States is playing with Venezuela to alleviate the crisis in energy prices.
Even when Trudeau takes action, his motivation seems suspicious.
The Wall Street Journal recently mocked Trudeau for acting in response to developments in the United States by tightening Canadian gun laws following the Texas school massacre and re-emphasizing women’s right to abortion in Canada. before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month. “Canadian politics seems to be too boring, or parochial, or something,” the editorial noted. “If you want to influence US politics, we recommend that you emigrate and run for Congress.”
But most of all, Trudeau just doesn’t act. As noted by Globe columnist Campbell Clark in pointing to the prime minister’s hesitation to end vaccine terms, a “political inertia” revolves around the liberal government of perishable speed where “without a political impetus to to do something, the default is to do nothing “. Well said.
WILL TRUDEAU APPEAR FOR RE-ELECTION?
Many of Trudeau’s comments include goals for the immigration of Afghan translators, numbers of resettlements in Ukraine, targets for greenhouse gas emissions, indigenous reconciliation movements, or even the planting of trees for billions, are excess of promises sent for a prolonged study and ultimately not fulfilled.
Recently, a misleading political operative insisted that, having been involved in Trudeau’s negotiations for a power-influencing deal with the NDP, she is convinced that Trudeau is running for re-election to give him time to cement to launch his legacy.
If so, his unstable display of true leadership should reward the Conservatives with a governing mandate in the next election.
But Trudeau has been very lucky in politics, so unless the Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre, who is linked to the coronation, leans a little into dominant thinking, far-right conservatives may not get what they want. requires to overthrow Trudeau of a fourth term.
Speaking of moving to a current sign of the Prime Minister’s state of illness, his media party at 24 Sussex Dr. returns Wednesday with Trudeau out in COVID isolation. I asked a colleague if the host of the missing celebrity would prevent her from attending the press gallery. “In fact, I think it will be much better without him.”
There is no doubt that many liberals think the same way about his party under Justin Trudeau.
That is the conclusion.