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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Riding on the wave of conservatism that has overtaken the US with the Republican’s victory in the November elections, US President-elect Donald Trump is putting pressure on Justin Trudeau as his popularity continues to plummet. With Canada just days away from entering an election year, Trump described the liberal Canadian Prime Minister as a “governor” again after outlining the so-called benefits of Canada’s inclusion into the United States.
“Merry Christmas to all,” Trump began his address on the Truth Social network. “Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World.”
Trump is ramping up pressure on Trudeau, an ideological adversary who lambasted the billionaire many times during his first term, now that the Canadian leader’s popularity is declining. Elections in the North American country are scheduled for October 2025, and Trump is evidently attempting to influence the outcome by mocking and berating Trudeau.
Trudeau has begun what will almost certainly be his last election campaign, seeking a fourth consecutive term in office. This is despite falling support for his government and the Liberal Party, which, according to polls, are disapproved of by three-quarters of voters. Interest rates, the fall in inflation, and the respite of the vertiginous rise in house prices have done little to stop the fall in support for Trudeau.
In fact, Trudeau’s situation has become so dire that, according to the Economist, Canadian Liberals, including Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, are preparing for the possibility that he will step aside from the race. However, the outlet stressed that Trudeau “is not going anywhere.”
According to cited supporters, the Canadian prime minister is determined to host the next G7 summit in June 2025 and hopes to face off against Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in the upcoming election. Poilievre appears to be gaining “unexpected support” from younger and working-class voters, who propelled Trudeau to power in 2015 with his talk of inflation and high housing costs. Current polls project the Conservatives will win a large majority.
“Donald Trump’s personal disdain for Mr Trudeau, along with his promise to level a 10-20% tariff on all imports,” will make Canadian businesses and their employees nervous, The Economist noted.
Chrystia Freeland’s resignation as deputy Prime Minister of Canada and one of Trudeau’s allies also represented a real shock for the Liberals in the midst of the historic political crisis they are currently facing. The unexpected and chaotic resignation of the former finance minister, who led Canada’s tough United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement negotiations during Trump’s first term in office in 2018, is said to be entirely related to a disagreement with Trudeau over how to respond to the Republican’s tariff threat.
Since Freeland’s resignation, the Canadian prime minister has faced constant calls to step down from many MPs within and outside his party. The loss of such a key ally marked a severe blow to Trudeau, whose popularity had already bottomed out before the resignation, let alone before the influence of Trump’s constant berating. However, whether Trudeau is still in power in the coming months or not, Trump’s planned tariffs will not go away anytime soon, and Canada will have to deal with the possibility of its economy being upended.
Freeland reportedly accused Trudeau of “eschewing costly political gimmicks” to boost his image. In her resignation letter, she said that Canada faces a “grave challenge” from Trump’s threat and that keeping “fiscal powder dry” was necessary to have the reserves needed in a future tariff war.
“We need to take that threat extremely seriously,” she said, adding that this means “pushing back against ‘America First’ economic nationalism.”
Trump has revelled at the seeming collapse of the Liberals, hence the belittling of Trudeau as a mere “governor” and repeating the proposal that Canada should consider becoming a US state. For an extended period, Trudeau rode on the wave of anti-Trumpism that prevailed, but this has severely backfired as he is now under pressure to resign and is predicted to lose the elections for the Liberals if he remains.
Rather than dealing with Canada’s many internal issues, such as the cost-of-living crisis, he instead focused on lambasting conservatives, provoking India by supporting the separatist and terroristic Khalistan movement and giving blind support for the Kiev regime as part of his anti-Russia agenda.
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my what a nasty windbag trump is. hard to imagine what sort of vile idiots he appeals to.
of course. usa same as egypt and syria is run by jews ( syria by jews that pose as “islamists”- jewlani:hello) germans knew all the jewish tricks and fought these pest bravely, but sadly the us & uk people same as russian people not realized the real enemy, and are till today still believing most of the jewish lies. true history is hidden from them, see: https://cuturl.cc/xas
you are absolutely correct. rt for example constantly harps on about the fake holocaust as if it happened. complete idiots.
look at the yeltsinist crowd running their country. that narrative is chiselled in stone. taboo 🥸
as forrest said ” stupid is as stupid does”, and it’s beyond ridiculous how they lap it up.
i think america must invade first mexico to stop drug after that trump can invade canada or panama. but first mexica must be target.
if trump invade mexica mass deportation must continue of course but srnd tgem to argentine
to the vatican .it’s walled like paris was they can locked in there
not at all .i’m.not sure what his intentions are other than to put the globalists on note that of they want a war over land grabs he will oblige them.
upvoted there. positive thoughts 😄😄😜
canada’s a crown colony of king charles, he owns it ,its his .like australia new zealand south aftoca and england itself . course trudeaus a governor like australia we have a governor general who is above the elected government and can at the soverignd request remove them as govero kerr did to the whitlam government. bit trudeau not as powerful as a governor unless their comstitutions a bit different to ours .
and if not for the war of independence he would own north america too.still, they lwill by the time little george is king .after william the conquerors reign ..imo .
no, trudeau like whitlam is the prime minister. canada has one governor-general and ten lieutenant-governors, one for each province. and yes, the canadian governor-general has the power to fire trudeau regardless of what was stated during the truckers protest – but, like whitlam, only on the order of the monarch – which in whitlam’s case was done because he wanted to nationalise rio-tinto, which was owned by the windsors and now by vanguard – which is itself majority-owned by the windsors.
“canadian liberals”, a euphemism for perveted, sellout whores…
‘gigolos’ more apt for justin
freeland ought to know that “eschewing” means the opposite of what she thinks it means.
freeland has a background in journalism; no-one could ever accuse a journalist of literacy.
sir donny ‘chutzpah’ trump, ingratiating himself with canucks i see. rub their noses in it donny. just keep on skiting about how much better it is in pissrael’s mega colony
actually freeland’s resignation was in response to trudeau’s attempt to remove her from the finance portfolio – which trudeau did on explicit instruction from trump. trump hates freeland even more than he hates trudeau.