Credit: White House via Picryl On February 1st 2025, President Trump ratified an Executive Order that pledged to impose a tariff of 25% on all goods from Canada and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy. Immediately, countless Canadian politicians and pundits started to attack Trump and propose various modes of economic retaliation to combat his tariffs. Doug Ford, the … Read more
When Justin Trudeau became Canada’s prime minister in 2015, his relentless promise to improve life for the middle class resonated so strongly with Shivaan Burke that she went to work for the local Liberal member of Parliament, who was elected along with Mr. Trudeau. But a decade later, as Mr. Trudeau prepares to leave office … Read more
Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he would resign was the last card that Canada’s deeply unpopular prime minister, who had set his party on course to lose a national election, had left to play. The political levers he has pulled will give Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party a chance to reinvent itself without him. But … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday used Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement of his plan to step down to reiterate his stance that Canada becomes the 51st state of the US. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that … Read more
2020: During the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Trudeau became the first Group of 7 leader to isolate himself, after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for Covid-19. (They are now separated.) Mr. Trudeau pushed for restrictive measures and was targeted over them by his Conservative critics, even though most of the restrictions were put in … Read more