There’s some sort of accountability exercise going on and Deputy Prime Minister CHRYSTIA FREELAND is being set up as a political sacrifice.
— Her apparent offense: Being an ineffectual sales agent (translation: lousy communicator) for the economic policies led by a PM who went into a pandemic election declaring he doesn’t prioritize thinking about monetary policy.
— It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Cabinet shuffle trial balloon: Two anonymous sources dumped on Freeland by way of a report from The Globe and Mail’s BOB FIFE, knocking the DPM for failing to deliver an “upbeat economic message.”
In Washington at the NATO summit, the story caused a stir among the press traveling with Trudeau, prompting the PMO to smother it with denials.
Paywalled: A cunning plan to leave the Finance Minister dangling by a thread. If there’s an archived version, shoot me a link in the comments
Updated: link here. Thanks Adam!
But if Mr. Trudeau and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, huddle to go over the options that Liberals have mooted to turn things around – the Prime Minister resigning, the chief of staff resigning, or the finance minister resigning – door No. 3 might be a popular choice.
https://archive.ph/20240712045505/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opinion/article-a-cunning-plan-to-leave-the-finance-minister-dangling-by-a-thread/
The fish stinks from the head no mater how many diversity appointments he shakes off.
Freeland’s personality is that of an; aloof, elitist, tone deaf, smug, bitch … the most repulsive and unlikeable freak in Trudeau’s Cabinet. So yeah … she would be an EXCELLENT choice to sacrifice on the altar of political desperation.
If you want the LPC/NDP to look more presentable and give the media a chance to hype his cabinet reform. The longer she stays the more grotesque they appear.
Could it be that Trudeau is accepting the fact that his time is over, and he knows that Freeland would be a bad choice to replace him. So out she goes and in comes Carney who would have a much better chance of keeping the Liberals in power.
Carney isn’t stupid, and, he won’t want to put in the hard work at this time. His career would be over if he didn’t successfully win the election, and it’s very risky to step in now. Becoming leader AFTER Gropie’s humiliating defeat will be much easier, with a clean slate to work with, instead of herding the arrogant, entitled cabinet members before an election.
What we are viewing right now is end stage government, that’s been around too long. An out of touch “leader” blames everyone but himself, as we see, MPs announce they are retiring, spending time with family, and in the case of Nazi Cretin Freeland, she’s being scapegoated by Derr Groper, as will others.
BEER AND POPCORN TIME.
Dan BC – Carney may not be – technically – “stupid”, but he has MANY qualities that no sensible Canadian would want in a Prime Minister
Remember that Iggy guy?
Kenji – you are too charitable
“Trudeau held out until the final day of the NATO summit to announce Canada would hit its alliance spending commitment by 2032.”
This is more “balancing the budget” BS. He won’t be around in 2032 and couldn’t care less what he promises now.
Equivalent to the software term “vaporware”. But that’s modern governing in a nutshell.
Seeing the shitshow that went on before JWR got the boot, the only reason anyone gets turfed from Leisure Suit Larry’s team is because they put up resistance when he asks for something.
If she’s getting the boot I suggest it has to do with an eleventh hour budget request for a big boost to the defence budget.
Timeline I suspect went like this
-Trudeau arrives at NATO summit and makes big show about climate change as the biggest threat to world peace.
– high level delegates meet with him in private and tell him in no uncertain terms with regards to meeting the 2% of GDP he needs to come to the table and stop riding the coattails of the US.
-he figured it was an empty threat and ignored it right up until he met with members from both houses of congress and senate and then heard the media reports calling him out (very bad press)
-in a panic he sends a note off to Freeland
“Need to find 18 billion in budget for defence- big purchases required ASAP”
-Freeland responds with questions trying to find a way to explain why it wasn’t in spring budget
-the ponce takes her questions as resistance and ends the conversation with some salutation about discussing later to hash out details
– after discussion he’s on the phone to Telford saying he might need a change and how he’s concerned that Freeland is being a team player that needs an “incentive” to get him what he wants
– Telford pulls out the Rolodex and dials a number
“Hey, I got a lead on an op ed for you I need out in time for the boss to make an announcement at the NATO summit, and I’ll need your guy covering the summit to ask about Carney again”
Yeah – I’m wondering how often, how many other of his Cabinet Ministers have heard that message from him: “Who CARES about the budget – GET ME THE MONEY!!!”
But I gotta’ be honest, Freeland’s capital-gains dunning tweet about “Rich people – do you want to live in a Canada where the poor poor-people…” didn’t inspire me to respond “No, and I’ll gladly pay more taxes…”, it inspired me to retort “No, and I’m LEAVING!” But maybe that’s because I’m not rich…
We all knew the man was a piece of slime.
That being said, he could give his entire cabinet smokes and blindfolds and then put ’em up against the wall for all I care, in fact, I would find it mildly amusing.
No tears here.
Delivering an “upbeat economic message” about a national economy that Trudeau is actively and aggressively destroying? That would simply be business as usual.
It’s far more likely that Chrystia the Plain refused to stand in his garden wearing a tall, pointy hat and holding a lantern; or that she’s been hoarding the blunts.
We all knew TurdHole is a narcissistic sociopath. This latest action is absolutely no surprise.
As classic narcissists do when facing rapidly mounting criticism, JT’s next move will be to find suitable scapegoats in his cabinet/caucus and thrown them under the bus.
Out the entire caucus, none of them has exhibited the sociopathic sycophantic behaviour more so than the red dwarf.
If he turfs her he loses 50% of his cheer leaders.
This entirely-concocted media blitz seems all part of the current Liberal master plan/wet-dream – and what Canadians actually voted for this to happen BTW? – to bestow Mark Carney – who is not even an MP – a regal coronation (the monarchical allusion is intentional) in hopes of his eventually leading the Liberal Party to more glorious victories.
And you could get an A.I. bot to craft the narrative (which I suspect we will ALL be hearing soon 24/7), “after a well-meaning but somewhat-rocky flirtation with the left-leaning Trudeau and, by pure necessity – of course! – an alliance with the NDP, the Liberal Party has trimmed its sails/learned its hard-won lesson/has righted its ship/the people have spoken/has moved back toward the Comfortable Center as The Nation’s Natural Governing party” (choose one tired, clichéd metaphor or more) and we can all sail happily into the happy sunset of Glorious Liberal Future blah blah blah….
Of course, the REAL problem is not Trudeau or Freeland or Carney, it’s THE LIBERAL PARTY ITSELF, and even more “meta” than that – it’s the whole coterie of “government as an interest group” constituencies that the Liberals – who are only the most notorious exemplars in this regard – have made a career in pandering too, all on Joe Public’s dime and to the collective impoverishment (national suicide?) of the country.
And I will go even further – and to repeat sentiments I uttered yesterday or so – it is, at root, the fault of a SIGNIFICANT plurality of Canadians – conventional, trusting, complacent – who still, despite all evidence to the contrary, believe that Big Government is their friend and that the Liberals are the best party to put that philosophy into action.
We – SDA readers exempted of course – get the governments we richly deserve.
Meh.
Faster Harder.
The dread dwarf must remember,after her being tossed aside…”Dear Leader loves you,Dear Leader is wonderful,Dear Leader is great..”
Stupid Liberal.
Evil is compound stupidity,never so well expressed, than by our Progressive Comrades.
Once again we see the truth of Can Ahh Duh,however much you hate our government funded media lackeys,it ain’t enough.
Freeland won’t be happy to be gone as Finance Minister but at least she won’t be the next Kim Campbell gifted the PM position to ride the flaming funeral pyre.
Bringing in Carney at this point might finish him off too. What would be hilarious is to bring him in and run him in a safe by-election and have him lose it bc there are no safe ridings left for Trudeau’s liberals.
One can dream.
Haha. Will it end up being a slime slugging contest between Trudeau and Freeland? Trudeau surely has a lot of rotting skeletons in his closet. I hope they both lose. Canada will only get better once Trudeau, Freeland and the rest of the Liberal government gangsters are gone. The sooner, the better.
And 1,000,000 useless, leeching parasites, er, civil servants.
This statement shows what is wrong with the liberal mindset – she was an ineffective sales agent. Really?
Is that all that matters? Messaging, image, selling the brand, and so on?
What her budgets have done to Canadians for the past years – meh, that does not even enter into the equation.
All that matters is Appearance and Signalling, not Facts.
On a related note….
Most are speculating that JT is hanging on due to his narcissism.
Here is another, more Machiavellain take on it – the Lib brain trust wants him to hang on as long as possible, and then jump ship just before the next election. The new leader will be touted as the Messiah to save Canada from the Trump-inspired eeevil conservatives, and the LIV’s will go along, believing that the problem was JT, not an entire mindset that invoked Big Government Control at every step (thank you, Eric Strauss for consistently pointing that out).
If the new leader does not have much time in the HOC to be questioned on specifics of policy, the media can go on drooling about the honeymoon period, and the untainted new leader will ride to victory, allowing the media and LIV’s to bask in their self-righteousness as they again support Image over Facts.
“This statement shows what is wrong with the liberal mindset”
Exactly
“If the new leader does not have much time in the HOC to be questioned on specifics of policy, the media can go on drooling about the honeymoon period, and the untainted new leader will ride to victory…”
Exactly
Maybe, but I think another reason the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government is hanging on is because they haven’t figured out how to hide their massive financial malfeasance/corruption. I expect they’ll try to find a way to seal and hide inciminating documents for decades so they can’t be brought up on charges.
Unlike in the US, one parliament may not bind another. Can’t do it.
Wasn’t a bunch of PET’s records sealed for decades? Trudeau Jr. has been hiding documents under cabinet confidentiality, national security and trade secrets since 2015. I suspect most of that is to hide incriminating and embarrassing information. The Trudeau Liberal-NDP government are creatures of habit, they’ll continue trying to keep info hidden somehow.
Watch the liberals in the US start to devour each other , now and post election. Canada, the UK and France not too far behind.
I predicted this years ago – Freeland, Trudeau, Carney. Keep your eye on the bouncing ball for the real psychopath Carney to get his foot in the door.
“We’re going to need a bigger bus”.
Up from the Memory Hole (Facebook newsfeed has deleted the clip). Kick her when she’s a-goin’ down I say!
This clip – in its entirety – makes great attack add. Doncha just loooove the uber-effected way she enunciates the word “two”
https://x.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1805282959554904277
“Tyw-oooo-oooo”
OMFG – you CAN’T make this stuff up!!!!
Her little girl voice just reeks of condescension and entitlement. A personage of intense and unrelenting awfulness (or AWFLness?)
Freeze-frame the attached clip for extra entertainment value!
In 2019 FreeFart went to the Bronfman’s and asked if they would replace TurD’Ho with her as leader of the libs, so she is a threat to the Turd in that manner. Maybe pushing again for top spot.
I don’t know. Freeland is one of the few who know where all the bodies are buried. It could be a risky move.
And BTW… dumping her for not being able to communicate better and hiring Carney is ridiculous. To think BoardRoom Carney can easily and clearly communicate to the plebs is crazy talk. This is a guy that couldn’t pull off a photo op with a beer can without looking ridiculous. The man is about as ‘down to earth’ and common man as Ignatieff was and we saw that train wreak happen in slow motion. If ‘communication’ is the problem, then Carney is not the answer. But then, we all know it’s not the ‘communication’… it’s just bad policy that the serfs (aka taxpayers) are no longer buying.
Two cathedral gargoyles having a moment together. Seriously, tennis shoes? Well done ya stupid skank.
https://x.com/SecYellen/status/1811414394141896817
AHHHHH, MY EYES!!!
The internet has been scrubbed but those “sneekers” are muti-thousand-dollar designers.
Now I know what the free birth control is, they hand you that picture.
Why would the Carney join the sinking Trudeau ship to be forever tainted with the stink of the Trudeau albatross?
He is allegedly smart, if somewhat stuffy and boring, but even a blithering moron can reach the conclusion that Trudeau would play him and toss him out if it would allow Trudeau to stick around for another moment.
And The Carney should be painted with the policies that brought us the current inflation disaster from his time at the Bank of Canada.
Exactly so. You and Annie win the thread. No one in their right mind wants to imitate the career track of Kim Campbell. Carney may have the communication skills of a potted plant, but he’s not stupid enough to willingly walk to his political execution.
Be a good title for soapy’s tell-it-all book.
Finance minister/deputy PM is only her side job. Her main job is workin for the WEF.