Love videos like this! I feel like the Canadian system of government is a significant blind spot for me

I'm Western Canadian and your "about" even sounds weird to me...

there should be a candian sitcom in the style and tone of VEEP

JJ, do you think that Trump's recent rhetoric about annexing Canada will increase anti-Americanism here? I can definitely see this leading to an even more protectionist futute for this country

Good video

Great vid JJ. We can honestly say that Trudeau is the worst PM in Canadian history. Can you name any other PM with as many scandals, low disapproval and ego tripping than this one?

Jagmeet wants his pension.

The British conservatives have leadership elections even with a popular prime minister. Thatcher famously got tossed when she failed to get the support of 60% of her party. Pierre has said he favors term limits. I will believe it when it happens.😅 we have a senator in America who ran as a term limits guy back in 1980, but he is still there

Trudeau has done unimaginable damage to Canada. Canada is far more divided than the rest of the world thinks. Any province can legally leave Canada whenever they want. Alberta is already fed up with Ottawa, and should a better deal from the USA come along, there is a good chance Alberta (along with other western provinces) could leave...

This has to be fixed.. so f******** frustrating!

Dont worry once your government crashes trump said he will give canada the opportunity to become the next state in the new united states right after we rename the gulf of the usa and take greenland

Most of these problems are just a byproduct of the nonsensical decision to have the party leader with most seats automatically be PM instead of actually have the parliament elect the PM via a majority vote. That way at least every PM would always be elected by democratically elected MPs

It's interesting how Canadian politics is just like British politics but without the backstabbing culture

Right now this video is sitting at 1300 likes against 7 dislikes. I don't think I've ever seen a lower dislike ratio. People **really** hate Trudeau.

About the LPC leaders sticking on, it’s kind of crazy but two leaders (Laurier and King) served for 60 years combined in a row

I don’t understand. If the liberal party is almost assured to lose, why do you need an interim PM? Why can’t Trudeau serve his term, decide to “spend more time with his family,” and then the Libs can appoint a nominee (who I guess would lose, at least, in a different political climate, COULD win.) Why does this liberal running for offfice need to be an incumbent?

We really need term limits for PM. More so for the fact it helps limit the damage a PM can do. Although the US isn’t perfect I think there are some things we could take from their system that would help us.

Should the people of Canada not have a viable Liberal leader to vote for/against when the (almost certainly immediate) non-confidence vote happens?

Canada needs to dump the antiquated parliamentary system. It's archaic and, as you point out, inefficient.

LDS people are awesome for the most part and they are much like Christians with less dogma and fear mongering about hell. Most Mormans don’t give a damn about church history and are unlikely to try to convert you unless they are about to go on a mission.

Make your PM limit their self to 2 terms and bam no more of this

i'm late to this, but a musician i like named Vashti Bunyan fits here well! she released an album titled Just Another Diamond Day in 1970 to little commercial success, but it slowly gained a cult following and she resumed recording in 2002, releasing her second album in 2005

Im not canadian so i dont understand but why do people not like the conservatives? Are they that bad? What do they stand for thats so bad

I think We need to have a serious discussion about reopening the constitution, a lot of things need to be changed in this democracy. The problem is that its a can of worm and we dont want to be back in 90s with the meetch and charlottetown agreements.

Honest question: what other choice did Trudeau have for resigning? Wouldn't anyone else in his position have acted out of self- and partisan interest? Is the issue here dodging the no-confidence vote so he could throw someone else under the bus instead of facing defeat sooner?

Canada needs term limits on it's leadership

is it possible for a PM to step down as party leader but continue as PM?

Agreed, regardless of what’s your political affiliation, a PM calling a snap election/ prorogation shouldn’t exist anymore. I think a big unsaid consequence of the Trudeau era is that from now on any politician talking about electoral reform will likely have skepticism since Trudeau and the liberals abandoned it pretty early on.

Honestly at this point I want Trump to annex us

I've been saying that for years Canada is not as democratic as it claims.

JJ, I’m on board with everything you say except that the only explanation for Trudeau’s actions are self-serving and political. If Trudeau waited like he did for his popularity to decline before declaring his resignation when the parliament has been calling for him to be gone for far longer, doesn’t that suggest he might be simply giving the people the chance to choose a leader who they actually want? He sees that he is not wanted by the people, so if he stays in then PP makes it in automatically, even if he isn’t the most desired PM by the people. Whoever the liberal party elects to run will barely be considered a real PM historically if they don’t win reelection.

Either party conservative or liberal would do the same. Neither party once in power is willing to do any electoral reform once in. Didn’t happen with Harper, didn’t happen with Trudeau

JJ should also do the Liberal candidate explain

The last proroguing of the UK parliament was controversial too. Boris Johnson is said to have misled the Queen into agreeing to it. It was challenged, and the UK Supreme Court judged it unlawful and Parliament was reconvened. Just one of the fallouts of Brexit and examples of Boris’s shenanigans!

3 prime ministers in a year ? Reminds me of the Tetrarchy Enter the age of THE TRIMEMINISTER

Make it so that the Prime Minister can only serve for eight years continuously and/or ten years cumulatively.

Somuch "legal" corruption from our goverment. Canada is just discusting the way our politic works. Like Trudeau calling a election before is Nazi vaccine passport. They scared people for a year and brainwashed them in thinking that was the way to go. Well look now, Liberal is barely a goverment now and just a joke to everyone under 65 years old.

Good stuff! And awesome to run into you on Davie Street the other week, thanks for the pic! :)

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It could be interesting to also do a deep dive retrospective on how this feels like the end of the neo liberal era, with Trudeau exiting and the Obama coalition seeming to be completely on the way out on DC. Biden seemed to be the last dying breath of an older era which is passing by now. It seems we're shifting away from a more globalist western world to one that is much more nationalist. Obama and Trudeau seemed to be this youthful transition to a more enlightened liberal world, but now have tainted legacies of being elitest and self-serving. It would be interesting to look deeper into the failures and transitions of this political era.

Feckless narcissist anointed as liberal Jesus because of their last name. What could possibly go wrong.

So the NDP couldn't keep their mouth shut and spooked trudeau before they could just actually introduce a no confidence vote... Why are they taken seriously if they cant even politician right?

Is there a reason more Canadians are not registered party members? Is it cost? Or some other barrier orcrequirements?

But Trudeau had tons of immigration why didn't that do anything ?

"I have resigned from the party. Praise the party!" - Mao Zedong - wait no, Justin Trudeau

Canadian democracy is in such shambles that Canadians aren't really reacting to the prospect of being annexed into the USA

In scandinavian multiparty systems the parties usually have a 'elections commitee' chosen by the general assembly every year that has the task to put forward the best possible leader and board members for the general assembly. They can choose to keep or change the current leader, general secretary and central boardmembers. Their finished suggestion becomes the bedrock for the party to vote over, and has weight to the members. If the commite are unsure they give alternatives to vote for. When the commite have have published their suggestions then their members and sub orgs are able to forward alternatives, but will need a certain amount of party signatures to prove they are a legitimate challenger.

This process of a PM resigning and appointing a successor is what I hate about the British electoral system. If Canada thinks Trudeau's resignation is cynical, wait until you have to put up with five Tory PMs resigning in a row, with their successor being decided by less than 70,000 people, two of them being selected unopposed, and one not even staying in office to participate in a general election.

What can we do as regular Canadians to make these changes? Do we just have to wait, during this time of crisis, for a new party leader, and then an election, just to end up at square one?

Similarly Jacinda Ardern stepped down as Prime Minister of New Zealand and was succeeded by Chris Hipkins because no one in the New Zealand Labour Party ran against him for the party leadership. Hipkins was in office for about ten months before losing the next general election (though the National Party needed form a coalition with two smaller parties to obtain a majority).