Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Justin Trudeau of Canada announced that he intends to resign as the leader of Canada's ruling party. |
| 0:07.0 | He's going to step down as prime minister. |
| 0:09.0 | He says once a new leader of the Liberal Party is in place, however, that may not actually happen because by all accounts, they're going to select a conservative leader. |
| 0:18.4 | But his departure comes amid lots of pressure for him to step aside |
| 0:23.4 | before the upcoming election. And this, a lot of it has to do with how he's being bullied around |
| 0:31.4 | by Donald Trump, or some people would say not being bullied around, but being pressured by |
| 0:36.7 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:42.2 | You know, Trump saying that he wants to make Canada the 51st state. |
| 0:48.8 | So will it be a conservative leader in Canada or will they elect another liberal person? |
| 0:52.7 | Casey, isn't the broader question, how do people like this get elected? |
| 0:55.6 | Like, do we ever ask ourselves in our society? |
| 1:00.7 | And we can look to Canada, obviously, and this will be big news for a while, that it's a huge worldwide story that he's leaving. But look at here in America, the similar people to Trudeau, |
| 1:05.8 | just look here in the city of Indianapolis and Joe Hogsett. Do we ever actually stop and ask ourselves, how do people |
| 1:12.8 | like this convince the public at large or convince their fellow electors in some cases at large that |
| 1:19.6 | they're the best? Why do we have such a crisis of leadership in our country, in our state, in our |
| 1:25.4 | city around the world? Why do people not demand better? |
| 1:29.3 | It's a good question. You could, in the case of Indianapolis, perhaps there's two things. |
| 1:34.8 | One apathy, the second one, name recognition, right? People just, okay, good enough. I'll just |
| 1:41.3 | select him. That's who I know. That's who I'm familiar with, regardless of the |
| 1:46.2 | results. In Trudeau's case, he's been a leader for 11 years in his party. He's been prime |
| 1:51.9 | minister in the country for nine. So could it be the same situation? Well, that's the broader |
| 1:59.5 | conversation. It's a crisis of leadership around the world. And look, Canada is a different animal than America. And they obviously have a longstanding history of having a more liberal society with far more liberal policies than we tend to have. But I think it's the bigger conversation and the one that affects us closer to |
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