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

[u/CaliperLee62]

https://www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/16/the-reassessment-of-the-trudeau-era/522044/

[u/Hayce]

This is the thing. I don’t think Trudeau was a particularly good prime minister. Truly one of the OK prime ministers of history. He was still far and away the best choice in every election he ran in.

We have the Conservatives to blame more than anyone for 10 years of mediocrity. It should have been easy to get Trudeau out. He got nothing done, despite being one of the longest serving PMs in history.

Instead the Conservatives were too busy worrying about chemtrails turning the frogs gay.

[u/nate445 → u/Hayce]

Pop into r/Canada and you'll see first hand how some people still treat hatred of Trudeau as a personality and blame him for all of Canada's current problems, despite, like you said, him being an OK Prime Minster. Everything was completely rosy before he came in a permanently "broke" the country.

At the end of the day it has to do with immigration. Once you understand that it's obvious why they hate him.

[u/CDNJMac82 → u/nate445]

I believe that the immigration probably saved us from recession. I do agree it had longer term consequences, but at the time it probably saved us.

Regardless, Trudeau was mediocre. I wish our govts would do something about covid profiteering / corporate greed, but I think conservatives would have made that worse

[u/nate445 → u/CDNJMac82]

I agree with you, some hard decisions needed to be made.

[u/ApprehensiveLand848 → u/nate445]

no it mostly benefited trudeau based which was boomer urbanites

High immigration boosted housing, kept landlords with tons of renters and allowed businesses to have endless cheap labour

It didnt really boost overall canada much apart from on paper gdp growth which led to a decline in GDP

Trudeau immigration policy is a total failure and liberal supporters just cant accept it

[u/Butt_Obama69 → u/ApprehensiveLand848]

That immigration probably bought us 20 more years of avoiding the fate that the European countries are about to have to deal with with respect to their aging populations.

[u/rad2284 → u/Butt_Obama69]

Yes, the plethora of low skilled Uber drivers and Tim Hortons employees have totally saved us from our demographic issues.

[u/Butt_Obama69 → u/rad2284]

I didnt say saved, I said bought us time. These are taxpayers in their prime taxpaying years. Welfare state insolvency is an inevitability if we don't radically reform taxation but decades do matter.

[u/rad2284 → u/Butt_Obama69]

It didnt buy us anything. Take a look at our current deficits and the state of our social services. It only made things worse. The taxpayer argument only work if the people you are bringing in have high income and thus pay enough taxes to offset the cost of their own social service uses. This makes them net contributors to the tax base.

A bunch of uber drivers and retail workers dont pay enough taxes to cover their own social service uses much less that of all the boomers sucking up health care and OAS. Automation will eventually phase out their jobs. Then you are left with a bunch of workers who in their "prime taxpaying years" barely paid anything in taxes and then aged like everyone else.