Hello, I'm Fraser Myers Deputy Editor of Spiked and I am delighted to be joined by Rupa

Subramanya, writer at the Free Press. She is joining me live from Ottawa. Rupa, welcome.

Thanks, Fraser, for having me. It's great to be here.

Rupa, the reason I wanted to talk to you is because things are going a little bit wild in Canada

where you live. Justin Trudeau has announced his intention to step down. For many people around

the world, he's sort of one of the few leaders left from the pre-Trump age. So it's someone who is,

you know, well-recognised for a Canadian leader.

Internationally, I wanted to ask how he's perceived in Canada, because internationally, he's still seen, I think, very much this sort of energetic, young, quite progressive, quite liberal, sort of type politician. But how do Canadians see him, especially now

that he's on his way out? Well, I'm actually, I would even challenge the premise that he's seen,

you know, he still seems to have good reputation internationally because that could, you know,

one could argue, you know, our standing in the world has really gone down over the last 10 years that Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister.

But here in Canada, Justin Trudeau and his party have been tanking in the polls now for well over a year

now.

Now, they risk losing, you know, risk losing party status in, you know, if the next elections were to be held today,

where meanwhile, the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Pollyever, has been their way ahead in the polls, and, you know, almost likely, I mean, barring something strange happens, will form the next government.

So, you know, I actually wrote about it for the free press a few months ago about how young people in this country who once backed Justin Trudeau and came out in a really big way,

10 years ago, these were people who were 20, 21 at that time. They're now in their 30s, trying to buy a home,

you know, trying to get to the next stage in their lives, and they're unable to do that. They came out in a really,

really big way in 2015, but now they really soured on Justin Trudeau, and they can't wait

to see him leave office and have a new government, you know, come into power. So that's how bad things are in Canada for Justin Trudeau. He,

you know, he's probably one of the least popular politicians in the country. He's really let down

a lot of Canadians. And, you know, it's just, I, and his intent to resign was, you know, people, people were

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