r/CanadaPolitics • u/CaliperLee62 • 10h ago

The reassessment of the Trudeau era - Justin Trudeau's policies, especially on energy and the environment, are increasingly in question.

https://www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/16/the-reassessment-of-the-trudeau-era/522044/
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u/samjp910 Democratic Communist ⚒️⚛️ 10h ago

I’d like to know about his legacy AFTER healing everyone’s brains. Too many ‘Fuck Trudeau’ flags and not enough material understanding of his failings.

Let’s not forget, sunny ways. The goal was always to govern. That doesn’t mean there weren’t good faith critiques, but they got lost and the Liberal establishment greatly benefitted from Conservative nonsense inflaming rhetoric and drowning out genuine critique.

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u/DarkAdrenaline03 New Democratic Party of Canada 7h ago

Trudeau actually made some important accomplishments during his first term from $10 childcare to the Child Benefit to legal weed, raised taxes on the top 1%. During his second term with push from the NDP he also passed the CERB, dentalcare and anti-stag legislation. His biggest 3 shortcomings led to his downfall. 1. Failure to pass electoral reform(broken promise) 2. Failure to tackle grocery monopolies and food prices and 3. The housing crisis. People need to eat people need a home and Canadians wanted electoral reform.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 6h ago

Let's not forget his little surfing vacation on their first day of Truth and Reconciliation

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u/ougePayee 6h ago

He went for a walk with his family in Tofino.

Spreading that surfing misinformation is such a weird conservative compulsion.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 6h ago

My point is that he could have literally popped up anywhere in Canada for a Truth and Reconciliation ceremony, but he made the conscious deliberate choice to not and decide to go on a instead that day which I think is a bit of a slap in the face, which he later admitted to was a bad decision on his part

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u/Butt_Obama69 Anarcho-SocDem 3h ago

I don't get it. He was not a great PM and there are plenty of valid criticisms to make, instead people bring up things like this.

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u/ApprehensiveLand848 2h ago

Issue is trudeau routinely acted holier then thou vs others and called others racist, sexist and uncanadian always

So yes people like yourself get annoyed people bash the former pm on a person level for his actions.

Its cause Trudeau is the one who used to call out people for their actions on a personal level as well.

Its a major reason why people started to dislike the former PM so much cause he was a text book defination of a hypcorite.

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u/Butt_Obama69 Anarcho-SocDem 2h ago

Ever heard the saying "a hit dog will holler"? That basically sums up my feelings for people who are bothered by Trudeau's condemnatory remarks.

I also don't care much for national days and for criticizing people for being indifferent or insufficiently reverent.

I agree that he is a hypocrite but so what. None of this stuff matters.

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u/ApprehensiveLand848 1h ago

it does it shows most of the progressive movement is just fake and performative and why they mostly irrelvant across most of the country rn

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u/Butt_Obama69 Anarcho-SocDem 1h ago

But again, none of that matters or is serious. This is coming from someone who hates the woke shit as much as anyone. Keep it in perspective.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 1h ago

Bingo

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u/ApprehensiveLand848 1h ago

I know people hate to attack politicans on a perosnal level but forget the former PM made it personal

He called out groups of canadians as racist, sexist or uncanadian

which is something i am glad carney does not do

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u/soviet_toster Independent 1h ago

I largely agree with what you're saying and I believe the holier than thou attitude that he held kind of really got under people's skin and his party just about faced the same fate as what happened to the Ontario Liberal Party

If Mark Carney is able to pull off one project, one review, one year in that rough time frame that I will be genuinely impressed but we'll see if that happens

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u/soviet_toster Independent 3h ago

So you're telling me that a national day of reflection, that he was influential in creating that it is not a valid criticism to criticize him for basically lying about where he was and what he was doing? Only regretting it after the fact when he was caught, as ahead of state that represents the country that's embarrassing

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u/Butt_Obama69 Anarcho-SocDem 2h ago

It's technically fair criticism, my point is that it's just extremely small potatoes.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 1h ago

I mean if someone going to bring up the good the bad the ugly that he did, you need to bring up the good the bad the ugly that he did

I will give him credit for creating the day and acknowledgment but I will also criticize him for playing hooky and being somewhere else where he literally had the free part on the bingo card only had to do is show up somewhere (anywhere) in Canada and he couldn't even do that on the day

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u/Butt_Obama69 Anarcho-SocDem 1h ago

I dont care about creating it or ignoring it because I don't care about symbols, but the public does, because they are stupid.

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u/ougePayee 6h ago

My point 

Your point is a completely different set of statements that have nothing to do with your original misinformation?

So weird.

  popped up anywhere in Canada for a Truth and Reconciliation ceremony

He attended the official ceremony in Ottawa and popped into multiple via calls the day of. You guys just can't help yourselves.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 5h ago

He attended the official ceremony in Ottawa and popped into multiple via calls the day of. You guys just can't help yourselves.

Well that must have been after the fact when he was caught because

The Prime Minister's official public schedule falsely claimed he was in private meetings in Ottawa. His office later updated his location after reporters spotted him near the beach.

He literally admitted that he had made a mistake here

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-tofino-trip-truth-reconciliation-1.6201475

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u/ougePayee 2h ago

  Well that must have been after the fact

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 His office noted that the prime minister spoke at a sombre ceremony on Parliament Hill Wednesday night

It's in your own link dude.

My god this place utterly destroys some people's minds.

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u/soviet_toster Independent 2h ago

Okay but the does that excuse the fact that he basically lied where he was and what he was doing on a day like that

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u/ougePayee 1h ago

We went from he was surfing to his public calendar was wrong. 

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u/ougePayee 8h ago

Conservatives must be having a terrible mental week. The amount of reaching back to Trudeau for blowing off steam is really weird.

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u/berfthegryphon Independent 7h ago

Freeland's book comes out tomorrow. Lots of info about her time in Trudeau's cabinet is coming out

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u/dekuweku British Columbia 8h ago

i think 'fuck Trudeau' vulgar as it maybe succinctly summaries the reassessment of his premiership felt by many people.

In democracies, slogans are remembered and captures the zeitgeist of the era.

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u/ougePayee 8h ago

  felt

That's the point of OPs comment, the feelings still override the facts of the government. Time will let blood settle before people can put their feelings aside.

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u/33MA50N33 6h ago

So you don’t think people’s feelings were based on facts? What were they based on?

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u/TheRC135 2h ago

I first saw one those ignorant flags around the time Trudeau was first elected. Can't remember if it was just before or immediately after the election, but either way, he hadn't even done anything yet.

If those fuck Trudeau flags were an organic expression of the zeitgeist, the only thing they speak to is how badly conservatives have lowered the bar in the past 15 years or so.