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With Donald Trump the stateside victor, Steve contends that that it’s Canada’s turn to smack down the “eminently smackable” Justin Trudeau. While the 2025 (possibly sooner) election awaits, a few thoughts about previous prime minister Pierre Trudeau are in order. Consider the take of David Frum in Canada’s National Post back in 2011.

Canada’s achievement overcoming Trudeau’s disastrous legacy should not inure Canadians to how disastrous that legacy was. Three subsequent important prime ministers – Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper – invested their energies cleaning up the wreckage left by Pierre Trudeau. The work has taken almost 30 years. There was nothing small-scale or parochial about him. As a political wrecker, he was truly world class.

Trudeau believed in a state-led economy, and the longer he lasted in office, the more statist he became. The Foreign Investment Review Agency was succeeded by Petro-Canada. Petro-Canada was succeeded by wage and price controls. Wage and price controls were succeeded by the single worst economic decision of Canada’s 20th century: the National Energy Program.

And so on, inviting a comparison with the record of Justin, in power since 2015. From 2014-22, according to Canada’s Fraser Institute, “Canada’s annual average growth rate declined sharply, ranking third-lowest among 30 countries over the period.” In 2022, “the median employment earnings of workers were lower in every Canadian province than in every U.S. state.”

Like Pierre, Justin Trudeau, is a world-class wrecker. As the anthem puts it, giving him the boot would be a plus brilliant exploit.