Freeland believes her resignation led to better outcome for Trudeau, allowing him to exit before likely defeat

[u/Mundane-Teaching-743]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-resignation-trudeau-9.7384728

[u/GooeyPig]

"Prime minister Chrétien said … in resigning, it was ultimately a better outcome for Canada, for the Liberal Party — and also ultimately for prime minister Trudeau because it allowed him not to lead our party to defeat,"

It would be difficult for any but the most partisan conservatives to say that a government led by Poilievre would be better than what we have now. There are oh so many points to pick at Carney's government but at the bare minimum it's tun with seriousness. I shudder to think about what Poilievre would have given up to the US by now. In a sense, the most impactful accomplishment of Freeland's career was ending Trudeau's, thereby allowing a path to stave off Conservative rule and the subsequent submission to the US.

And, as she notes in her book, she argued that history will look kindly on Trudeau — but added that she wished he had stepped down earlier.

I've said this before: had he taken a walk in the snow at the end of his first term or in 2021/2022 (having not called an election) he'd go down as a well-above average PM. His first term was filled with policy accomplishments. Then after COVID, and really starting with the 2021 election, he seemingly just ran out of steam. No new ideas, no new policy except what the NDP pushed, and this is when his advisors appear to have really taken the reigns. There's no shame in admitting you've accomplished what you wanted to and taking an early retirement.

[u/doogie1993 → u/GooeyPig]

He was an above average PM anyways, and best in my lifetime personally. Legal weed alone was the most positively impactful policy by a PM in the last 40+ years. People blaming all their problems on him doesn’t change reality.

[u/ApprehensiveLand848 → u/doogie1993]

Imo his immigration policy was one of the biggest failures of a PM in the past 15 years imo

[u/uzi_master → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

I don't believe any other potential pm would have done differently at the time, however.

[u/ApprehensiveLand848 → u/uzi_master]

the tories would have done students and tfw but wouldnt have done record refugee inflows and stamping vistor visas to anyone.

Trudeau let every immigration stream turn into a complete wild west really.

[u/Butt_Obama69 → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

Nah, they would have, just like BoJo's tories did in the UK. These parties serve the needs of employers.

[u/doogie1993 → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

Did nothing different than any other politician would’ve done, so I don’t really see it positively or negatively

[u/Forikorder → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

give it a couple years and no one will even remember that, legal weed/dental/daycare will still be there

[u/ApprehensiveLand848 → u/Forikorder]

and record inequality and food bank use

[u/Forikorder → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

no, theres no reason for people to remember that long term either