[Albion] Justin Trudeau

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The guy seized the bank accounts of people protesting against mandated covid vaccination. He’s a tyrant.

Oh dear.

I can just about understand someone refusing a Covid vaccination, but 'protesting' to agitate others to not vaccinate is sedition.

Lock them up!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A concise, 8 minute video explaining why Trudeau’s so unpopular. Another vote of no confidence to come - lots of speculation he’ll resign next week.

The biggest issues Canada is facing are a massive rise in the cost of living, specifically in housing. Grocery prices, house and rental prices are at record highs (inflation adjusted) and homelessness is consistently on the rise. Wages have not risen in line with these increases.

Relatedly, crime has increased massively thanks to decriminalisation of drug use and homelessness.

Trudeau targeted women and young voters with a progressive, feminist agenda (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/justin-trudeau-feminist-twitter-explodes).

Huge sums spent on green policies, legalising marijuana use was a key policy for young voters. These same young voters have now turned against him in droves, and his popularity with young voters has fallen from 72% when elected to 28% as of 2024.

That’s not even touching on the blackface controversy, the COVID f**k ups, the interfering in criminal corruption investigations into Canada businesses owned by his friends, the public relations fiasco with India…

You would have thought, given the extent to which his dad was a massive wrong 'un, the electorate would have seen through him.

Oh well.

The Canadian electorate has always been odd. When I lived in Vancouver the province was run by 'Social Credit', a weird reactionary right wing rag bag of farmers, tee-totallers, evangelicals, property developers and grifters.

 

[Zeus]

Oh dear.

I can just about understand someone refusing a Covid vaccination, but 'protesting' to agitate others to not vaccinate is sedition.

Lock them up!

They were protesting because they were being told they couldn’t do their jobs without a vaccination. And then got their bank accounts seized as a result. Surely you arent defending that?

 

[US Seagull]

The reality is that anyone who is a political leader for an extended period of time will become unpopular because people get bored of their leadership and/or have unreasonable expectations on what they're able to achieve in office. He's an excellent Leader but probably has been there slightly too long. I think the American tradition of 2 terms as president really should extend itself across the world as it would individuals trying to consolidate and hang on to power, whatever the cost. It should never be about personal ambition as much as it should be about the work of the office.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

You can't do politics without pissing some people off. It's about making hard decisions. Some get over it, others don't. Eventually the number of people you've pissed off and haven't forgiven you becomes enough to force you out.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

They were protesting because they were being told they couldn’t do their jobs without a vaccination. And then got their bank accounts seized as a result. Surely you arent defending that?

No, that sounds a bit harsh.

What does the seizure of a bank account mean precisely?

 

[Quebec Seagull]

The guy seized the bank accounts of people protesting against mandated covid vaccination. He’s a tyrant.

And Poilièvre is better?!?!? He'd be 10x worse. He's not a red Tory, he's a RWNJ. Any sane, social-democratically inclined citizen should vote for Singh if they don't want Trudeau any longer. Poilièvre is Trump/Johnson in wolf's clothing.

 

[drew]

The guy seized the bank accounts of people protesting against mandated covid vaccination. He’s a tyrant.

Wasn't it a case of the banks just freezing the accounts? Saying they seized them suggests they took the money. Also, wasn't it in response to the protestors shutting down/blocking roads etc

 

[Zeus]

It means your bank accounts get frozen so you can’t spend or control your money. Ultimately taking away your ability to pay for anything.

 

[Zeus]

Wasn't it a case of the banks just freezing the accounts? Saying they seized them suggests they took the money. Also, wasn't it in response to the protestors shutting down/blocking roads etc

Yes so ultimately you are frozen out of your ability to pay for anything with your own money. That is serious 1984 territory.