On 2025-01-05 10:15 PM, danny burstein wrote:

Mostly repeating from The Globe and Mail, but has lots of the
details hidden by the paywall

https://nypost.com/2025/01/05/world-news/trudeau-expected-to-announce- resignation-this-week-report/

I was amused to read the comments under that article that credited Trump
with Trudeau leaving. I have no doubt that Trump - or more accurately
FEAR of Trump - is very influential all over the world but Trudeau's
imminent resignation - if that's what he really does - has much much
MUCH more to do with polls that show the Liberals 25 points or more
below the Conservatives in the upcoming election with Trudeau as leader.
That's the one thing that has Liberal MPs shitting bricks and finally
growing the backbone to try to pressure Trudeau to leave while there is
still a remote chance of resurrecting the party's fortune under a new
leader.

Trudeau should have read the writing on the wall at least a year ago and
made his exit then but he's dragged his heels so hard that he's only
just starting to understand how toxic he is to the whole country. Now,
he has his party in massive disarray on the very eve of Trump's
inauguration and his threatened 25% tariff on EVERYTHING.

We have yet to see how the tariff threat can be handled - and who will
handle it - when the Liberals have only an interim leader (who may very
well be the incompetent Trudeau himself) while others jockey for the top
job. Equally imponderable is the question of what happens with regards
to the tariffs if we are plunged into an election in the next few weeks.
A Liberal leadership campaign takes 4 months if they follow their
constitution but an election takes only around a month from start to
finish so I'm hoping we'll have an election but I know the Liberals
won't want an election until their new leader is in place.



--
Rhino

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

In <vlgp7d$1alj1$4@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

[snip]

We have yet to see how the tariff threat can be handled - and who will
handle it - when the Liberals have only an interim leader (who may very
well be the incompetent Trudeau himself) while others jockey for the top

Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, seemed to carry herself
well in some US interviews. Does she have national backing?


--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On 2025-01-06 9:30 AM, danny burstein wrote:

In <vlgp7d$1alj1$4@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

[snip]

We have yet to see how the tariff threat can be handled - and who will
handle it - when the Liberals have only an interim leader (who may very
well be the incompetent Trudeau himself) while others jockey for the top

Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, seemed to carry herself
well in some US interviews. Does she have national backing?

What little I know of her - and it IS rather little since she's the
Premier of Alberta and I'm in Ontario - is very impressive. But her
party is essentially a conservative party and it is very unlikely that
the Liberals would want her as their leader. After Pierre Poilievre, a Conservative, has been Prime Minister for a while, she may make a fine successor to him but I just don't see her jumping to the Liberals: she's
got too much common sense to join the reality-challenged Liberals.

--
Rhino

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)