As the new year beckons, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t exactly have much to be joyful aboot.
For starters, unless the polls are so wrong as to be several standard deviations off, Trudeau won’t even be prime minister at the end of the year; there will have to be an election on or before Oct. 20, 2025, by Canadian law, and Trudeau’s Labour Party trails Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party by over 23 points in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s polling aggregate.
The CBC’s estimate as of Dec. 23 gives the Conservatives a 99 percent chance at an outright majority, and a large one, with Labour being so thoroughly wiped out that they’ll potentially be fighting with the far-left New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois — the pro-independence Quebec party — for second place in terms of parliamentary representation.
And then there’s the other alternative, something that’s caught on thanks to a suggestion from American President-elect Donald Trump: He could always convert his status to Gov. Justin Trudeau, leader of our 51st state.
It’s an idea that’s caught on so strongly that even Canadian reality TV star and real estate mogul Kevin O’Leary is talking about it on cable news.
O’Leary — best