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🗓️ 13 January 2025
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0:00.8 | Just last week we had Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suddenly announced it |
0:05.6 | that he is stepping down. Here's what that look like. Take a listen. |
0:10.0 | Last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today. |
0:18.0 | I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader |
0:26.6 | through a robust, nationwide, competitive process. |
0:31.6 | Last night, I asked the President of the Liberal Party to begin that process. |
0:41.2 | This country deserves a real choice in the next election, |
0:46.8 | and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles, |
0:51.3 | I cannot be the best option in that election. |
0:58.0 | Amazing. I suppose as you go on to say, and as I take down my Christmas tree, will be dismantling the authoritarian government that's destroyed Canada and set it back on course to be a free people. |
1:06.0 | I hope so. I mean, I hope that whoever ends up filling that position brings Canada back to the beautiful country it is. |
1:12.4 | I was just visiting there on a business trip. What a beautiful country. What a beautiful people. |
1:16.8 | And they've had it. Boy, did they just get dragged through the ringer. So it is great to see |
1:21.2 | this colossal moron walking into the sunset. And this is under growing pressure from his own party. |
1:27.8 | So it's not just the public, but his own party is turning against him. |
1:30.8 | So I think he, I think he saw the writing on the wall and did the right thing. |
1:33.8 | But just two weeks prior to that, you had his finance minister, |
1:37.6 | his head finance minister, Christina Freeland, people may know her from shutting down the truckers |
1:41.5 | protest and freezing bank accounts. |
1:43.2 | She abruptly resigned from the cabinet. |
1:46.0 | So she goes two weeks later, he goes major, major shakeup going on there in Canada. |
1:52.0 | But this isn't all. So, you know, I look at this through the lens because it's been our reporting of the COVID response. |
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