After nearly 10 years as prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation. For most of my life, Canada was a land to the north that rarely made news. It was a great place for generating talent, kind of like the minor leagues for baseball. So many famous entertainers come from Canada, like Bob and Doug McKenzie. Take off, hoser. With the arrival of Trudeau, Canada started being newsworthy, and not in a good way. Here is a handsome and charming man whose policies are clearly terrible. Things have gotten demonstrably worse in Canada during his tenure.
The timing of his resignation is interesting. If Kamala Harris had won the presidency, would Trudeau be on his way out? Rather than a clearly contentious relationship with Trump in his near future, is he bowing out to let some other member of the Liberal Party get browbeaten by the Orange Overlord? With a coming election this year that he is unlikely to win, why stick around for the coming turmoil. Apres moi le deluge.
Though it is almost certainly a joke, the idea of Canada as a 51st state isn't such a bad idea. Clive Cussler had it happen in one of the Dirk Pitt novels and that was pretty cool; I forget which novel that was, but a treaty where the UK sold Canada to the US for WWII aid was discovered in some sunken hulk. As far as population and GDP, it is about the same as California. Huh, Gavin Newsome and Justin Trudeau have that same quality of handsome charmers who sell snake oil policies.
Canada has turned a corner and better days lay ahead.
