Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Ruin

After nearly a decade in Canada’s highest office, far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, leaving behind a legacy of ruin and chaos.

“I intend to resign as party leader [and] as prime minister after the [Liberal Party] selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process,” Trudeau said during a Monday press conference. “This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”

The announcement comes amid Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s cratering favorability among Canadians ahead of the country’s October general contest. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, recent polling data has indicated the opposition Conservative Party is on track to win majority control of the federal government, while the Liberal Party is projected to lose a significant number of seats and its hold on power.

In recent weeks, Trudeau has faced calls to step down from opposing members of parliament and lawmakers from his own party. Those calls became especially notable following last month’s exit of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s finance minister and one of Trudeau’s top acolytes. According to Fox News, Freeland “wrote a scathing letter of resignation,” in which she cited “criticisms over [Trudeau’s] handling of certain economic policies as well as the threats levied by Trump.”

Since winning a second term in office, President-elect Trump has trolled the now-outgoing prime minister by referring to Canada as a “state” and Trudeau as its “governor.” The comments came in reference to the incoming president’s insistence that America is “subsidizing” countries like Canada.

“It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” Trump wrote on Truth Social following his late-November meeting with Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago. “I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!”

Following Trudeau’s resignation announcement, the soon-to-be 47th president floated the idea of making Canada the “51st state.”

A Disgraceful Legacy

Much like with their revisionist coverage of recently deceased President Jimmy Carter’s political career, legacy media will undoubtedly portray the premiership of Canada’s leftist darling as a glowing success.

But for everyday Canadians who were forced to live under his thumb for nearly a decade, Trudeau’s resignation couldn’t have come soon enough. The disgraced prime minister’s legacy has been wrought by overreaching government edicts and failed leftist policies.

In early 2022, for example, Trudeau weaponized the country’s Emergencies Act to target truckers protesting his government’s Covid shot mandate for the trucker industry.

The Liberal prime minister mobilized the Canadian military and intel agencies to forcibly remove the truckers and other citizens demonstrating in the nation’s capital of Ottawa. In addition to reportedly backing GoFundMe’s attempts to deplatform fundraising efforts for the convoy, Trudeau’s administration also expanded “its terrorist financing rules to target crowdfunding sites like the convoy’s new platform GiveSendGo,” The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported.

Trudeau — who went into hiding upon the convoy’s arrival in Ottawa — also grossly smeared the protesters with the typical diatribe of leftist slanders, including accusations of “antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia.” His weaponization of the Emergencies Act was later found to be “unreasonable” and illegal by a Canadian court.

But the devastation brought by Trudeau’s premiership doesn’t stop there.

Last month, the federal government added more than 300 so-called “assault-style firearms” to its list of prohibited guns. According to Breitbart, “Owners will be required to surrender them before the end of an amnesty window on October 30, 2025.” Now-Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc suggested that the confiscated guns could be shipped to Ukraine to help in its war with Russia, according to the outlet.

Other leftist-backed policies embraced by Trudeau in recent years include support for radical gender theory, government-enforced limitations on farmers’ fertilizer use, and mass migration.

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And when he wasn’t inflicting pain on his own people, Trudeau was busy sticking his nose in U.S. affairs.

Last month, the “proud feminist” lectured American voters for denying Kamala Harris the White House. The disgraced prime minister suggested Harris’ defeat was due to sexism, rather than her failures as vice president and inability to act like a normal human being.

“We were supposed to be on a steady — if difficult sometimes — march towards progress. … And, yet, just a few weeks ago the United States voted for a second time, to not elect its first woman president,” Trudeau said. “Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack — overtly and subtly, but I want you to know that I am and always will be a proud feminist. You will always have an ally in me and in my government.”

Trudeau notably criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, falsely describing access to abortion — the murder of an unborn child — as a “legal right.”

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood