An Amateurish Fiasco: Justin Trudeau’s Disastrous Tenure Makes Him the Worst Liberal Leader in Canada’s History

Trudeau’s departure is more embarrassing because it follows a bungled attempt to lay all the responsibility for a failed economic policy on his finance minister.

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Prime Minister Trudeau on December 9, 2024. Riley Smith/The Canadian Press via AP

Justin Trudeau is only the second elected prime minister in Canadian history, after Jean Chrétien, to be ignominiously pushed out as prime minister by his own party, and this departure is more embarrassing because it follows a bungled attempt to lay all the responsibility for a failed economic policy on the finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, turf her out and replace her with a complete newcomer to elective office. 

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