Justin Trudeau ... Zipped Past 'Best-Before' Date

"When  you take the results [of] these [poll] questions in their entirety, one can't help but think the progressive coalition that elected Trudeau to his majority in 2015 and contributed to his back-to-back minorities is significantly strained, if not broken."

"His personal popularity with NDP and Green voters is poor, which leads one to question his ability to win another election, certainly difficult to see him ever winning a majority."

"There is evidence of a national unity divide in the country. Across the country there is a strong view the Trudeau government has stoked unity tensions, but this is particularly acute n Alberta and the prairies."

Andrew Ennis, executive vice-president, Leger survey

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, on June 29. Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP

 For most Canadians it is finally clear that their prime minister, a man endowed with a famous name and an egotistical personality that the country has seen enough of, heard enough from, and suffered more than enough under his questionable leadership. A distinct majority revealed through a new public opinion survey featuring the legacy of the country's current leader, find him to be divisive, a man whose performance as prime minister has been injurious for Canada and to Canadians. 

Among those same Canadians a goodly proportion cannot wait for the next election. They would vastly prefer this man who has demonstrated time and again his loose ethical standards, his belief in his invincibility and inability to make decisions other than the right ones, his propensity to attacking his critics as "racists" and "homophobes" whose values are "un-Canadian" and  his vicious persecution of those he feels have chafed under his flawed decisions -- Vice-Admiral Norman, then Chief-of-the Defence Staff -- a case in point -- has disgraced the office of the prime minister.

His juvenile antics have embarrassed the country, as witnessed in his India tour when he played Mr. Dressup in outlandish, flashy costumes, met at a Liberal greet-and-meet with a Khalsa-separatist Indo-Canadian convicted of a violent criminal offence, and gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi reason to believe that Canada hosts and supports Sikh separatists with a violent agenda. 

Posing as a post-nationalist, Justin Trudeau has stated his belief in institutionalized racism in Canada. He has, himself, posed publicly in racist get-up for laughs. As an ardent 'feminist', his illegal, unethical pressuring of Canada's first aboriginal female minister of justice led to her being demoted to another ministry which she left, accusing Trudeau and his entourage of jettisoning her as punishment for refusing to undermine the Canadian justice system to save the Liberal party's Quebec votes.

In another affair with a Canadian charity whose actual charitable status was in question, Trudeau chose to sole-source-select the WE Charity with a handsome windfall to scoop up Canadian youth toward a Liberal Canada Youth Summer Work program. When it was revealed that Trudeau and his wife had shilled for the charity, and his mother and brother had been paid promoters of the charity yet another scandal of inappropriate decision-making was revealed and the program withdrawn under public outrage.

It is Trudeau and his liberal progressive regime that has thoroughly alienated the West, mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan with energy policies that seek to end Canada's extraction of fossil fuels for energy resources. Alberta's greatest wealth is derived from extracting oil and gas so the decision to shut down pipelines did not endear the Liberal party to the province that supplies the greatest part of funding for Canada's equalization payments to 'have-not' provinces like Quebec which enjoys special privileges other provinces cannot hope to achieve for themselves.

While electioneering on the promise to enhance the lives of middle-class Canadians, Trudeau has done the opposite. But during the pandemic he has also unleashed the Canadian treasury to supply unheard of sums of financial support to corporations, small business enterprises and unemployed and underemployed Canadians. To the extent that most Canadians, as a result of that federal top-up of their finances are in better financial shape now than prior to the pandemic. And the country is saddled with a huge debt and deficit for future generations to concern themselves with.

Trudeau's generosity in buying future votes balanced against his mismanagement of the country hasn't shielded him from the distemper of the times. Over half of all respondents in the national survey, irrespective of their political views, happened to disapprove of his administration of the nation's business. Close to half wanted him to resign before the next election. 

British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan stand at 65 percent dislike of the prime minister, followed by Alberta and Quebec at 58 percent. During his time in office Trudeau's divisiveness was cited by over 60 percent of respondents with over 40 percent believing Canada has become worse since his election. "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau often favours certain groups and regions of the country over others, which has created national unity issues"; a statement that 33 percent agreed on with another 28 percent somewhat agreeing.

"A clear majority disapprove of his performance -- higher in key electoral regions of British Columbia and Quebec."

"One might say these numbers can improve as we get clear of the hard road of the pandemic, but when one considers the economic challenges ahead this is not a certainty."

Andrew Ennis, executive vice-president, Leger survey