Many Canadians wanted his soft-on-crime promises, multicultural utopianism and energy stagnation. They just didn't like getting it

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not a fact of nature. He was a choice made by the Canadian public. Now that he’s leaving, we’d better learn from the ordeal.

Trudeau should have been done in 2021. Or 2019. Instead, on Jan. 6, 2025, he announced his plan to resign as prime minister upon the selection of a new Liberal leader, which will happen while Parliament is prorogued until March 24. He’s finally awoken to the cold feelings of his own people: December saw the Atlantic Liberal caucus call for the prime minister to resign, as well as most of the Ontario Liberal caucus, who no doubt have been anxiously watching their party plummet in the polls.

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The Liberals, amazingly, have dropped to 16 per cent support (among decided and leaning voters) by Angus Reid’s count, which is even lower than the NDP’s 21 per cent. A good many people who voted red in the previous two elections won’t be coming back this time around, either switching teams or sitting out the vote entirely.

Few of us should have been fooled these past nine years. Policy-wise, Trudeau did a lot of what he set out to do: he expanded drug consumption sites and “safe” supply, he took a