Hasta la Vista, Fidelito!

Let’s go ahead and start this column with a photo comparison, shall we?

You probably already know that the guy in the middle is Justin Trudeau. You likely already know the guy on the right is Fidel Castro. The guy on the left? That’s Pierre Trudeau, who is supposed to be Justin’s dad.

The rumor that goes way back is that the elder Trudeau, then a rising Canadian political star (he ultimately became prime minister), and his, er, liberated wife took a trip to Havana to pay homage to Cuba’s communist dictator, and, well, one thing led to another.

Yes, but that’s just a conspiracy theory.

This is not quite the debunking the “fact-checkers” have assured you it is, is it? That reminds me of another side-by-side-by-side photo comparison…

Of course, you’re crazy if you think the guy in the middle looks more like the communist newspaperman on the right than the foreign bureaucrat on the left, right?

What we can do is, as I did in Racism, Revenge, and Ruin, recognize that Frank Marshall Davis was at least the intellectual father of Barack Obama, if not the biological one, so is Fidel Castro the spiritual mentor of Justin Trudeau.

Thank God that over the past nine years, we never had a Canadian missile crisis. What we’ve had instead is a front-row seat to Canada’s implosion as a free and prosperous nation under Fidelito Trudeau’s Liberal Party regime, so much so that many Canadians have just plain given up.

Do we even keep a score of the number of Canadians who have decamped for sunnier climes and friendlier tax rates in the United States over those nine years? A lot more than the number of American leftists headed the opposite way, which is perhaps a pity.

Anyway, the toll on the average Canadian in loss of freedom and economic well-being thanks to Fidelito and his gaggle of World Economic Forum stooges running that country into the ground has been so severe that the Liberals are down to a 28 percent approval rating. Interestingly enough, they’re now beginning to lose ground to something called the New Democrat Party, a Hard Left communist outfit fronted by someone named Jagmeet Singh who presents himself as rather less than a serious leader. Think Bernie Sanders with more testosterone but no book-publishing scam or multiple houses.

That’s why on Monday, Justin Trudeau was “Bidened.”

You understand what “Bidening” is, don’t you? It’s the removal, by a party, of its unpopular leader in a desperate attempt to salvage an election.

The Liberals are going to take a well-deserved shellacking in an election that could come as early as March but won’t, for a bunch of obvious reasons including the fact that Canada has been sent into a panic by Donald Trump’s suggestion that tariffs on Canadian goods would rise to 25 percent unless and until Canada begins much better cooperation on securing their U.S. border and helping to halt the flow of drugs and human cargo.

There isn’t a soul among the Liberals’ leadership, though, who isn’t complicit in all of Fidelito’s destructive policies. They’re all open-border globalists. They’re all climate alarmists. They’re all COVID nazis. They’re all anti-Christian wokers. They’re all proponents of neo-communist tax policies and corporate fascists out to destroy small business. And they’re all true believers in transgender ideology. Think of The Squad and you have Canada’s Liberal Party. And then consider that Singh and the New Democrats are even further left than that.

And as ridiculous as these people are, they’ve had a pretty long run in power. Now they’re desperate to keep it.

Because Pierre Poilievre is coming. And he’s the disruptive scourge Canadian politics so badly needs.

I had forgotten what it was like to have a Canadian leader with a brain. Keep going, @PierrePoilievre! https://t.co/xyyjU7QMKY

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) December 18, 2024

You might know Poilievre from this…

I knew I liked Pierre Poilievre the first time I saw him take a bite of that apple two years ago. pic.twitter.com/v3uYazJaCE

— charmane harbert (@callme_Chari) January 7, 2025

But you ought to know him from this, which is an absolutely devastating indictment of Trudeau’s government…

This is one of the greatest speeches I’ve ever seen any politician deliver.

And Poilievre’s right. We’re not relying on him because we want to. We’re relying on him because he’s our last hope for this country.pic.twitter.com/wJvLaMVX68

— Jason James (@jasonjamesbnn) December 17, 2024

This is obviously resonating, and Trudeau and the Liberals no longer are.

So Fidelito was “Bidened.”

Before that happened, he prorogated Canada’s parliament — or, essentially, kept them from meeting because, were they to meet, the members would have dropped a vote of no confidence on his head and forced a snap election.

The goal now is to delay that election until the fall and give more time to whichever of Fidelito’s stooges is to play the part of Kamala Harris in this analogy.

In hopes that Fidelito 2.0 might fare better than Kamala did.

That didn’t sit very well with Poilievre at all…

Nothing has changed.

Every Liberal MP and Leadership contender supported EVERYTHING Trudeau did for 9 years, and now they want to trick voters by swapping in another Liberal face to keep ripping off Canadians for another 4 years, just like Justin.

The only way to fix what… pic.twitter.com/YnNYANTs1y

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 6, 2025

…and he’s correct about that.

It isn’t that Trudeau went senile like Biden did, or that he sprouted a pair of goat’s horns, or that somebody matched his DNA to Castro’s (sorry, I just had to). It’s that his policies, which are the policies of all the other leftist Liberal Party stooges, have ruined that country for business and life.

And when Trump started trolling Trudeau as the “governor” of the “51st state” last month, it gave Poilievre the opportunity to do this…

Pierre Poilievre’s message to Donald Trump.

Canada will never become the 51st state of the United States. pic.twitter.com/5EWAz91x9k

— Joe Anidjar (@PuckDaddy93) December 21, 2024

Here’s hoping this effort collapses and Canada gets a chance to right its ship behind Poilievre. Should that happen, there is a real possibility for Canada and the U.S. to make progress on a host of fronts — for example, Kevin O’Leary’s conversations with Donald Trump around unifying the currencies and creating a common market, which would, among other things, make it a lot more difficult for the Left in either country to put a stop to energy production in the name of stupid climate alarmism.

But for now, we can take some solace that, while Trudeau is almost certainly going to emerge as an elder-statesman “humanitarian” luminary feted across the globe by various leftist muckety-mucks and festooned with filthy lucre for speech-giving and other services, he will no longer have the power to immiserate is own people.

That’s a win. It’s a win that Trump, whose trolling of Canada continued Tuesday even after Trudeau’s resignation and now serves the purpose of allowing Poilievre to distance himself from Trump in advance of the Canadian election, can take some credit for.

Trump says maybe Pierre Poilievre will win, maybe not, and that he doesn’t care what he says.

He says he will use economic forces to make Canada the 51st state. He loves the Canadian people and says Canada and the United States would be something, especially if we removed that… pic.twitter.com/00bKzRulzI

— Joe Anidjar (@PuckDaddy93) January 7, 2025

And this is almost as entertaining as Poilievre was with that apple.

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