Justin Trudeau possibly set to resign

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quickymart

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#318318 6-Jan-2025 19:50

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/538294/canada-pm-trudeau-is-likely-to-announce-resignation-source

It looks like he's had some not-so-flash polling lately. I don't know how the Canadian political system works (is it similar to ours?), but hopefully it plays out a bit better than when Joe hurriedly stepped aside before the US election last year...and we all know what happened next.

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#3328457 6-Jan-2025 21:27

Yep Canada is close to us than the USA.

The cabinet positions for example MUST be elected MPs, just like us.
I don't believe they have proportional voting, but they do have more than just 2 parties in elected positions.

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#3328525 7-Jan-2025 07:29

Confirmed: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/canada-justin-trudeau-resignation-01-06-25/index.html

He'll stay on until a new leader is chosen.

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#3368412 28-Apr-2025 23:30

And now the election for a new PM is underway:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/28/canada-election-2025-live-carney-poilievre-face-off

(I found Al Jazeera's site quite good as it auto-updates)

It's amazing how the Liberal party's fortunes have changed since Justin stepped down - they were on track to lose, but since the orange buffoon started banging on about making Canada the 51st state, and all his tariff nonsense-talk, the Conservative guy has basically been tied to Trump and seen his polling numbers drop.

Going to be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

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#3368938 29-Apr-2025 20:04

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4jd39g8y1o

Marky Mark wins!