Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had some choice words for some Conservative Party leaders and anyone else by association.
On Thursday, the Liberal leader addressed his national caucus during a winter retreat on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
During his speech, Trudeau fired shots at CP leader Pierre Poilievre regarding his stance on Ukraine.
In fact, Trudeau shared that his first political phone call of 2024 was with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he assured him Canada stood with the war-torn country and would continue to support it.
“But Pierre Poilievre? And his conservatives? Chose to vote against support for Ukraine, calling it a far away foreign land to appease Putin-apologists like Tucker Carlson and those who enable him,” he said.
Tudeau goes on to say that the Canadian government won’t back down when it comes to “standing up to bullies and fighting for democracy at home and around the world.”
Anyone who has been keeping up with Trudeau, and his apparent haters, know that the leader isn’t a fan of either Poilievre or Carlson.
TUCKER CARLSON DRAMA
Fox News TV presenter Tucker Carlson has been vocal about his distaste in Trudeau.
Just this week, he posted a video in which he appeared to be leaving a voicemail to the government of Canada addressed to Trudeau.
“It’s Tucker Carlson calling from the United States, and I’d be grateful if you could pass a message on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We are coming to liberate Canada. And we’ll be there soon,” he said.
The video posted to Instagram garnered 3.4 million views as of Thursday afternoon.
And that’s not all Tucker said. He went below the belt in a second video and brought up Trudeau’s Black face controversy and said his divorce wasn’t even interesting.
Carlson embarked on a two-stop tour of Canada and just a year ago called on the U.S to invade and liberate Canada from Trudeau.
Carlson was even welcomed with open arms in Alberta and the province pulled out all the stops for him.
During an interview in Calgary with Alberta premiere Danielle Smith on Wednesday, he said he wasn’t a fan of Canada’s bigger cities and dissed Toronto, saying it really shouldn’t be the face of Canada.
PIERRE POILIEVRE DRAMA
Trudeau has been vocal about his dislike of Poilievre and the feeling is mutual on the other side.
This time last week, Trudeau called out Poilievre for his “ignorant” behaviour and claimed the leader wanted to take Canada in the wrong direction.
“Canadians are going to have a really important choice coming up in the next election,” Trudeau told reporters. “ Because the Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre has made it very clear that they want to take Canada backwards.”
Trudeau even called out Poilievre and said he was “extremely disappointed” following remarks made by Poilievre about provincial and municipal elected officials, in which he said (on numerous occasions) that they were “incompetent.”
And Poilievre has never been one to shy away from smearing Trudeau, in fact, at seemingly every turn he reminds Canadians that eight years of Trudeau has allegedly gotten us nowhere.
FIGHT TO THE FINISH
Trudeau has noticeably gotten more bold then we’re used to and all of this comes as Canadians are gearing up for the federal election in 2025.
So far public opinion of Trudeau has deteriorated in the last year. For example, a poll found that if Canadians casted their election vote today, Conservatives would bring home the win.
Research firm Abacus Data revealed that the Conservatives currently have the biggest lead they’ve recorded since the Liberals were elected in 2015.
Trudeau has been criticized for alot in just the last few months. From Canada’s housing crisis, devastating inflation to how the country has handled refugees.
