Another progressive government comes to an end

by Andrea
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Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada for the last nine years, resigned from his post this Monday, confirming his loss of political prestige in his country

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Justin Trudeau announced that he will resign as Prime Minister of Canada

The winds of changing political trends in they also arrived in the northernmost part of the continent at the beginning of this new year, after the crisis that spread across the in recent months, forced the unpopular prime minister to abandon his position in the leadership of the government and his party. When he took office in November 2015, the young liberal and progressive politician was seen as a new face in Canadian politics, but with a familiar surname. His father, Pierre Trudeau, was also the country’s prime minister, in a period of economic growth and Canada’s prominence on the international stage. Today his son rules a diametrically different country.

The last nine years have represented not only a huge change for Canada, but also for the world. Economic growth and the era of fraternal multilateralism appear to be behind us in a world with many rich nations in recession and the return of protectionism. As a result, governments that have not adapted to the dynamic changes of a world in crisis do not survive. If the anachronism of Trudeau’s leadership were not enough, the priorities he stipulated pleased the Canadian urban elite, while frustrating the large middle class and lower class in all regions of the country. Its progressive ideology regarding borders brought rapid demographic growth to Canada’s main cities, and even making up for the lack of labor in some sectors, it transformed the real estate market into something unsustainable. The high cost of rent, combined with food inflation, has made life in large cities more expensive than ever.

Trudeau’s progressive ideology was also strongly guided by the green policies of all other left-wing governments in the West, not only prioritizing new non-polluting technologies, but burdening those who use still polluting methods. In a country so large and with a vast middle class, punishing combustion cars and making electrical energy an extremely expensive commodity is choosing to lose popular support. This more moralistic than efficient scenario has meant that around 25% of Canadians are currently considered poor, an alarming number for a G7 nation and such a prosperous economy in the macroeconomic aspect.

In the midst of this crisis, there is the rise of a conservative leadership that speaks in an uncomplicated way and with a message that is easily understood by millions of Canadians. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the main opposition party, uses the worrying numbers of urban violence, inflation of basic items and poverty to explain to Canadians how the country got to this frustrating position so quickly. The heated speeches between Trudeau and Poilievre in Ottawa were more favorable to the opponent than to the incumbent and the most recent polls show that only 16% of the electorate would choose the Liberals, against 45% who would choose to give the government to the Conservatives.

The inability to overcome a crisis also aggravated by the recent disputes with the future North American president only anticipated Trudeau’s expected fall. Now the liberal party will have little time to find a new leader who is competitive, charismatic and who can dissociate himself from the negative image of the current prime minister before the next elections. The task is challenging and probably innocuous, as everything indicates that the next Canadian prime minister will come from the opposition.

*This text does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Jovem Pan.

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