This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Richard French is a senior fellow at the graduate school of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa. He spent nine years as an MNA in Quebec.
The first requirement for a prime minister in a Westminster system is to keep his cabinet and his caucus together, all more or less united and pulling in more or less the same direction. But our Prime Minister apparently does not talk to his colleagues; they have to deal with his staff in the Prime Minister’s Office, who apparently protect him from being unduly involved in his own government, even while they engage in the detailed policing of ministers and MPs’ speech and behaviour.
We’ve heard of ministerial responsibility. Mr. Trudeau is writing a new chapter in the unwritten Westminster constitution: prime ministerial non-responsibility. Advisers can palliate lack of substantive knowledge. High political office involves such a diversity of issues that no one can master any significant proportion of them. We pay our politicians to take expert advice and decide how to reconcile it with a myriad of other factors they must legitimately consider, certainly including public opinion, the global environment, the legislature, the caucus and so on.
It’s time to tackle the issues. My Canada can’t fall into the ugly partisan politics where nothing gets accomplished. We pay for performance with our votes, so all parties need to grow up.
What a ridiculous fucking headline?
Its all very simpke really. He and his fellow leaders utterly ignored their primary duty. To enhance, protect and develop Confederation. Period Instead focused on self and party over country.. Just like Trump..BoJo.. Macron one of few who's been sufficiently humbled to get it.
Blackface & pipelines made him a candidate people voted for in spite of ... Rather than the candidate they wanted
I feel empty, and sad. Canada is a nation divided: East vs. West, rural vs. urban. We need better leadership regardless of who won. letsbringCanadatogether
Gordie_Orwell Canada is a MEDIOCRE Socialist/Marxist Country...that's why
He won’t do better. He’ll drag his feet and try to give platitudes in his speech and his actions will be devoid if any action. He will try to force gun confiscation and do nothing about criminals. He’ll do nothing on scrapping C-48 and C-69 and kill energy but want it’s $$.
Because that blackfaced freak is the PM of Toronto. Not Canada.
Because it's embarrassing for Canada. It's hard to be the moral authority for the world when you have none.
he just has a 6 month past due expiry date. That's all. Canadians will eventually boot this two-bit crook out...
Because Trudeau has no business running a car wash let alone a country.
So you want ridiculous drama like Trump and Boris in order not to feel empty!! or you wanted a conservative who will follow in the foot setps of Quebec and strip people of their rights to wear whatever they want!!! Be a politician for 1 day then try your opinion again..
We have seen 4 years of Trudeau and I believe we already have the answer regarding his qualifications as a 'leader', THERE ARE NONE!
I guess he will have to take an 87 day vacay because he got so much done last term. 🤡
You are biased, you were corrupted by Justin Trudeau bail out money. You lost all credibility.
Because he is a moron. He’s driving generations after us into bankruptcy. So voters don’t care about debt? At their peril. And by the way, the G&M and CBC are totally corrupt.
Because he doesn’t have the balls to stand up to them.
Who ever tweet this stuff. Is the dumbest Canadian of the week!!
Us? What are you smoking
The globe is always empty .
Because it's a useless leadership..
Cause he does not get to learn why hes a out of touch .you have pardoned him for his digressions. and hell there is to many of you in Ontario that eats his message . From an ontario voter.
Maybe because neither Trump not Johnson has been caught in blackface - not just once but 3+ times. In that context, Trudeau's the worst of the 3.
Justin Trudeau is everything Trump is accused of.
Stop it! You reporters are such jerks
Empty? Pissed is more like it. We have to put up to with this goof again. He's ruining Canada. Ontarians are too stupid to see it.
Yes, we could have done far, far worse.
Not me
So we should have voted for Bernier? Give your head a shake! What have those two clowns done that is of any merit!!
Because our Nation is saddled with an incompetent boat anchor on the International front!
CuzCanada elected a black faced criminal!!!
Dumbest question from a big city Tory writer who cannot see the forest for the trees. Trump and Johnson are idiots, hell bent on breaking their countries. Trudeau is not.
Embarrassed
Empty? No. Relieved. Those feeling empty are the ones who fell for the propaganda campaign.
He can't do better. The country is strongly divided regionally on major economic and environmental issues and whatever he does is going to anger and pit region against region. This has been building for decades. It's now coming to a head.
Because he's disgusting.
I do not feel empty and will not be surprised when it only gets worse.
Because Canadians have proven how empty they are by voting for him.
He already had 4 years...
Probably because he’s destroying the country.
Condescending journalism.
Because that's what we got.
He is another loser that should of been voted out. He will again do nothing for Canadians, its all about him on the world stage.
So this is being written from Calgary I’m guessing.
What was shocking was, when faced with very nasty and unreasonable opposition, instead of going high as Michelle says, he went low and just as nasty. Dreadful election and perhaps the election many deserved to expressly reflect how bad we all can get so as to ultimately grow up.
Worst PM in modern history.
Thank god Canada said no to angry little Scheer. The world doesn’t need another white and tubby right wing leader
Thank God Scheer is not PM.
'Us all'?
Of course you're disappointed. You worked so hard to get the PCs in and failed, thank God. Everyone else heaved a sigh of relief. Your bias has become so extreme, you do not speak for true Canadians.
I feel fine thank you
Speak for yourself. If Scheer had been elected, our climate change plans would have dissolved - to name but one progressive thing he would have gutted.
We get more and more Trumpian weasel words pieces these days, 'journalism', using the term loosely, that makes assumptions about how 'us all' are feeling with no good evidence.
Speak for yourself. I think the author might be reading a bit too much into SNC Lavalin.
Oh for gawdsake, stop it. You’re a big part of why this election was so divisive. No one needs this analysis. Go back to news reporting and stuff your opinions.
I don't feel empty. I'm a woman and an immigrant. I'm relieved!
No choice, you have to be better no one won. Tough time for everyone
The media is pathetic. You paid-for paperboys got this absolute failure elected and now you imply the man has some potential to be competent
Because of a feckless & hyperbolic media who platforms the likes of E.Levant?
Because he's a hollow, empty shell, devoid of any substance, getting by solely on his last name? Is that why?
Your dance card is empty again
Because the PM is Justin.
It doesn’t leave us feeling empty. You certainly don’t speak for me! With the right wing hatred and greed causing their havoc in England and the USA, Canada should be feeling very proud. There was money and effort by outsiders spent to cause the same grief here, and it failed!
You're not speaking for me. I feel a huge sense of relief. Yes, he has work to do, but I have faith he will do it and do it well.
Speak for yourself.
Blackface is now mainstream.
Please, speak for yourself. I'm certainly not dancing in the streets but more than anything, I feel relieved.
Yeah. A real head scratcher 🙄
GlobeDebate I'm betting he'll screw up.
GlobeDebate What are the odds of that happening?
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