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Kradek posted...

I've heard of some Trudeau scandals, however has he actually hurt the people of Canada either fiscally or socially? Or is it mostly just embarrassing stuff that doesn't make him look good?

personally I don't think so, or at least not any more than anyone else would have done. I know this doesn't make it "okay" but it makes it a little hard to care too much. taking funding from weird places, overpaying for projects because they're buddy-buddy with the contractors, that kind of thing. I think most significantly, somewhat recently there was the convoy protest thing that he used some rather extreme government powers to resolve and that was generally poorly received in the longterm (although on a personal level I think it was a mostly good idea)

a lot of the dislike of the liberals is that they tend to overpromise and underperform. sometimes on things that are legitimately difficult but other times on things that seem so simple that the only explanation anyone will come up with is that they never actually cared in the first place

Kradek posted...

I've noticed your country increasingly going the same direction as my own, especially with the advent of Trump, and it is depressing to say the least.

Some of it is literally the USA exporting their politics up here. Like the covid lockdown protests as well as some other more recent protest at parliment, forgot what it was about, have a bunch of rightwing people driving up from the USA to participate in them.