Canada

I loved that the original attack ad they had when he was first running for Prime Minister was that he was too young and handsome to be a leader.

And for letting us down on proportional representation: [email protected]

Just finding out I'm a raging conservative. Oh god, I need to sit down... On his lap...

Many men were disappointed when arriving at the Ram Ranch to find Trudeau wasn't there.

But they made due.

This is in regards to our brethren down south, poking fun at 2nd amendmenters and their manly façade. Seems like cons all over the globe mostly like to larp as strong men but like if you gotta hide behind a firearm, are you really manly? 🤷‍♂️

"Hurt me but make me feel safe at the same time, you pussy liberals" https://youtu.be/TY0eUQ06Q2g

He is a thirst trap though even after ten years in office. He’s only 53 seems very young to retire. I’m curious to know what he does next. UN ambassador? Ambassador for Canada to France?

That's how I read those signs. That Bubba in the truck had a boner for Justin.

My response to those truck flags was always "Gay and proud. YES! You go girl!"

Glad to see civil discourse making a come back.

I believe in that case, the flag is warranted.

By leaving the office

Not yet, we still have hope it won't happen.

Our system is a bit different. We elect a party and that party has a leader. The leader of the elected party is the Prime Minister. The leader can step down and the party stays in power and selects a new leader, who then becomes Prime Minister. Trudeau stepped down and his party selected Carney to replace him, so we have a new prime minister and maintain a centrist government. (Centrist to us, left wing to the US.)

We can also have elections at any time, either by choice of the party in power, or forced by the opposition parties if they have enough seats in the government. Our current party in power, The Liberals, don't have a majority, so they've been maintaining power by making deals with a left wing party (the NDP or New Democratic Party). Liberal + NDP is one seat or so from a majority right now, so they've been finding additional support from other parties. This has actually worked out pretty well, as it has forced the government to be a little more proactive and given the left a good amount of power. There is always the threat of losing power and having to make different parties happy.

If the NDP (or others) decide they don't like Carney, they can force an election and then we will have the chance of getting that Conservative government you were worried about. Most likely they will wait a bit to see how things are going before doing that because their worst fear is forcing an election and ending up in a worse position (a Conservative majority.) If you hear that Canada has a new Prime Minister named Poilievre in the next year, you'll know we just ran into the same shit you guys did.

Election hasn't happened yet but Trudeau is stepping down.

Nope. @JohnnyCanck has a good explanation of what just happened, but some other info to add.

We're heading into a federal election soon, and the Conservative Party (right of the Democrats, and infused with a handful of Trump-level nutbars) held a solid lead for several months. When Trudeau announced he was stepping down, followed by Trump's tarriffs, the lead shrunk to roughly the margin of error.

Carney is fairly conservative for the Liberal party - he was appointed to lead the Bank of Canada by a (very!) Conservative PM, and then went on to head the Bank of England. He's a money manager for the rich, which is concerning, but also might draw some of the centrists back from the extreme right.

There's a fair chance that our next government will - again - be a minority, which will require the collaboration of parties, and often is when the most good gets done. Or we might get a CPC/Poilievre majority, in which case we'll be sucking up to Trump like a vacuum for four years.

jfc go away