Justin Trudeau, the” Crown Prince of Woke Politics,” announced his resignation less than a week into the year’s upcoming general election in Canada. This is a possible catalyst for reshaping the social environment there.
Trudeau, the eldest brother of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, took office in 2015 and presented himself as a leading figure in communist elections. He declared that Canada under his leadership would become the” first postnational state“, characterized by” no core identity” and” no mainstream”, only” shared values”.
Throughout his career, Trudeau has championed a range of communist reasons, from climate change to “gender equality”. However, his great claims, such as the commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, despite the significant financial position of the oil and gas industry, and the commitment to grow two billion branches in one of the coldest nations on earth to absorb carbon pollution, are not without their contradictions.
To establish himself as an equitable head, Trudeau insisted that his government sustain a “gender-equal” structure, appointing people to 50 percent of the government jobs. He declared the government’s budget to be “gender-sensitive“, introducing billions of dollars in new spending on women’s issues, such as childcare. Additionally, Trudeau’s government directed public employees to use “gender-neutral language” when interacting with the public to prevent any perception of bias toward a particular sex or “gender”.
Trudeau’s efforts to promote inclusivity, such as putting his entire family in traditional Indian attire during a state visit to India in 2018, drew a lot of public acclaim. His standing as a proponent of racial and gender equality was damaged by images of him wearing blackface and brownface at various parties in the early 2000s. Additionally, a groping allegation made by a journalist in 2018 further damaged his image.
The Covid pandemic revealed Trudeau’s true nature: Behind the attractive baby face is a tyrant, and those who disagreed with him did not receive his preached tolerance. For the first time in Canada’s history, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to suppress their voices when Canadian truckers peaceful protested in early 2022 to express their concerns about Trudeau’s draconian Covid-19 restrictions that were affecting their livelihood. In an effort to disperse the peaceful protestors and their supporters, Canadian police reportedly “deployed pepper spray and stun grenades” in an effort to disperse the country’s police.  ,
Additionally, Trudeau’s government banned public assembly, restricted travel, and extended the nation’s” Terrorist Financing” rules to freeze protestors’ and their supporters ‘ personal accounts and seize funds raised from crowdfunding platforms. A federal court later determined that this abuse of power was “unreasonable” and a fundamental freedom violation for Canadian citizens.
Under Trudeau’s leadership, Canada has faced troubling trends toward political authoritarianism and serious economic decline. Former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, Paul Beaudry, warned that Canadians are collectively poorer than many of their peers in developed nations. The wealth divide between Canada and the United States has widened alarmingly: Between 2002 and 2022, Canada’s GDP per capita fell from 80 percent of U. S. GDP per capita to just 72 percent. In 2023, while Canada’s population increased by 3.2 percent — largely due to a surge in immigration — the economy grew by a mere 1.1 percent. Due to this disparity, essential services like housing and health care are under enormous pressure.
Trudeau was forced to announce a significant reduction in immigration targets last fall with the intention to “pause” population growth, giving” all levels of government time to catch up.” However, this abrupt change in immigration policy was widely regarded as too little, too late.
The impending threat of a 25 percent tariff on Canadian imports by U. S. President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, has likely accelerated Trudeau’s political decline. Trump’s ultimatum, which calls for effective strategies to combat drug and human trafficking from Canada to the United States, and his flippant comment about Canada possibly becoming the 51st state of the United States have sparked concern in Canada’s political sphere.
When Chrystia Freeland, his finance minister and long-standing ally, resigned in December over disagreements on how to defend Canada’s economy from Trump’s tariff threat, Trudeau’s political isolation was further heightened. A year-end poll found Trudeau’s popularity hit rock bottom, and even members of his own Liberal Party called for his resignation.
Trudeau’s announcement of his resignation on Jan. 6, 2025, concludes nine years of political and economic turmoil in Canada. He is the first leftist leader of a Western democracy to fall after Trump’s election, but he won’t be the last.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the Labour Party may be the next one in the United Kingdom. Similar to Canada, Britain is facing an uphill battle with immigration and a struggling economy, with a survey claiming that the world is “headed for the worst of all worlds.” While neglecting a crucial inquiry into the systematic rape of thousands of predominantly white British girls by Pakistani Muslim men in Labour-controlled areas since 1970, Starmer’s government is imprisoning citizens for “hateful” social media posts. According to writer Dominic Green, this scandal has been kept secret for decades because it involves” the wrong kind of racially motivated crime.” Elon Musk’s recent tweet about this issue only grew in awareness of it.
On the day that Trudeau announced his resignation, Keir Starmer, at a press conference, accused anyone advocating for inquiries into the unfolding scandal and its cover-up of simply riding the “bandwagon of the far-right”. Conservative MP Daniel Hannan, who claimed that Starmer is” not fit to be prime minister,” caused a lot of backlash with this tone-deaf remark.
Meanwhile, in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz faced a crisis as his governing coalition collapsed last year, primarily over the mismanagement of the country’s economy. The government’s climate policies have contributed to the situation’s soaring energy costs, which have stagnated at just 0.2 % over the past five years. The anti-immigration Alternative for Deutschland ( AfD ) party’s rise also put pressure on Scholz. In a confidence vote on December 16 that didn’t result in Scholz’s defeat, early elections will be held in February in Germany.
Leftist politicians in Western democracies are losing their hold on power in 2025, according to experts from Canada to the U.K. and Germany. Two significant factors are likely to contribute to this change.
First, voters are increasingly dissatisfied with rising crime rates, price increases, high energy bills, and a lack of job opportunities, which they attribute to leftist policies like climate change and open borders. Instead of repeating the same old problems, voters prefer the latter.
Second, we are witnessing what I refer to as the” Trump effect”. Trump’s resounding defeat of the left’s favored candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has sparked a newfound confidence among voters and conservative political parties across other Western democracies. They now think it’s possible to defeat leftist politicians in the voting booth. Even before officially taking office, Trump is reshaping the political landscape, inspiring a wave of change few could have predicted.
The year 2025 doesn’t appear to favor Western leftist leaders, but it offers significant hope for a revitalization of Western civilization.
