Justin Trudeau’s Approval Ratings Slump Over Authoritarian Response to Freedom Convoy Trucker Protests
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, has seen his approval ratings plummet amid criticism of his handling of the trucker protests, including bringing in controversial emergency legislation. The Telegraph has the story.
Ottawa, the nation’s capital, was brought to a standstill for three weeks and road borders with the U.S. were clogged up as hundreds of truckers blocked streets and highways in protest at vaccine mandates.
The chaos ended only when Mr. Trudeau enacted emergency powers not used by a Prime Minister in more than 50 years and dozens of people were arrested.
Nearly half of Canadians said that their impressions of Mr. Trudeau have worsened over his response to the convoy, according to one poll, while another said a majority of people thought that his words and actions inflamed the situation.
A Nanos Research survey found that 47% of Canadians said their impressions of Mr. Trudeau worsened over his Government’s response to the demonstrations, while only 20% said theirs improved.
Nik Nanos, a pollster, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail newspaper: “What’s clear from the survey is that even though Canadians generally support what the Prime Minister has done, his personal brand has taken a hit as a result of the truckers’ convoy protest. There’s no political windfall for Justin Trudeau coming out of implementing the Emergencies Act.”
Another survey by the Angus Reid Institute, a British Columbia-based polling organisation, revealed that 65% of respondents polled in February thought Mr Trudeau’s remarks targeting protesters worsened an already tense situation.
When the protests started, Mr Trudeau called the group a “fringe minority” that held “unacceptable views”.
Last autumn, he angered protesters further by saying that some of those fiercely opposed to vaccination are “often misogynist, often racist, too. It’s a small group but takes up space”.
It seems you can’t go full Stalin in Canada and expect the voters to reward you. Given the numerous opinion polls in many countries over the last couple of years suggesting majorities in favour of draconian restrictions and penalties for the unvaccinated – encouraging leaders like Trudeau, Macron and Ardern to bring in ever more extreme policies – it’s welcome to find a poll chastening one of them for overreach.
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“Nik Nanos, a pollster, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail newspaper: “What’s clear from the survey is that even though Canadians generally support what the Prime Minister has done, his personal brand has taken a hit” Its difficult to know if these polls are rigged or people are that removed from reality, if, by support people were and are quite happy for their freedoms to be removed at will, bank accounts frozen, protest crushed and threats via government, then that is very worrying indeed. Its also interesting that it was phrased that the polled support the actions of heir trudeau but don’t like his brand, which is an odd phrasing really, how can you not support trudeau brand but support actions? on the subject of authoritarian, as an antidote, I was chatting to a friend and Russia Ukraine came up, when I stated an opinion that the situation is far more nuanced than the media would have one believe. the friend looked at me and said, “are you Russian, are you a Russian sympathiser!!!” From that It would not surprise me at all in the future if people who had opinions that were disallowed are rounded up… Read more »
I had that kind of reaction when saying similar about Covid 12 months ago. Now, those same people are far less certain, far less strident and far less naive.
A lot of people need certainty as they don’t have coping strategies for uncertainty. I make no claim to superiority for having learned them: there were times in my life when I simply didn’t have those coping strategies either. It took me several years to acquire them and societies would be far healthier if the majority of people acquired them in the first 22 years of life.
I would entertain no thoughts for the opinion of most people about Ukraine since hardly any of them will have known where it is and all they know now is what the BBC has told them.
The first 22 years of life? I would say before being allowed to vote.
“people were and are quite happy for their freedoms to be removed at will, bank accounts frozen, protest crushed and threats via government”
These people are so sure their opinions are correct they would never believe anything like that would happen to them because they are law abiding citizens. The problem is when the government is riding roughshod over laws, ethics and principles they think its the right thing to follow government instead of opposing it.
Not forgetting a big helping of “I’m alright Jack.”
there is also an issue with history not being taught very well by schools and or people not absorbing and learning from historical lessons later in life, add to the dividing into tribes and that side is worse than yours, and this is where the world is. Its also apparent that propaganda has taught the masses that either side is “mad” i.e. opposing views are mad and therefore discounted because your side is right.
See an earlier post that tells of Ancient History now being regarded as elitist and out of touch.
Those people do not recognise that history repeats itself and knowledge of it has a great deal to offer.
Teaching History, at least in America, now consists of learning that slavery began and ended in the USA, racist internment of Japanese during WW2 and Rosie the bloody riveter.
“Rosie the Riveter” was of course a propaganda piece to get women out of the home and into the US War Machine factories and shipyards – after the war the propaganda was reversed to get them back to the kitchen sink and give the men their jobs back!
It should always be shown as an example of successful State Propaganda – not in any way a ‘rallying call’, for Feminists- how stupid people are!
History was by far my worst subject at school. Whilst we can learn from it, it’s almost prescriptive. Perhaps the worst belief mankind can have is that we learn from history. The plain fact is, we don’t.
Perhaps we should educate parents and teachers out of the ‘because I said so’ mentality.
I’m not a psychologist but it seems to me that people can be most ardent in defence of their position (so hostile to your) precisely when theirs is under attack and they
realiseadmitt to themselves that it is untenable.I doubt if people have really changed their views of wimpy Justin, more like they see others beginning to show open contempt and so feel more free to express their own negative feelings about him.
Sadly, we all know that Polls and Surveys can be manipulated to support the opinion of the indtigaters simply by how the questions are asked.
This applies in both directions.
It never entered my head that Russia would actually invade Ukraine despite the ever increasing level of verbal hostility which I lazily assumed would remain merely rhetoric.
The problem is when a State is prepared to “ride roughshod over laws, ethics and principles”.
I was convinced that the invasion wouldn’t happen right up to the point that it did. My assumption was that the endless claims in the MSM that Russia was going to invade were just sensationalism/click bait and therefore no different from the scaremongering about brexit, covid, climate change etc. being worse than than we all thought possible.
As a sceptic I think that the background to the invasion is far more complex than the Ukraine good, Russia bad line taken by the MSM, but I find the hardest concept to deal with is the fact that the MSM were actually right as far as their predictions of an impending disaster were concerned.
Some would say they were egging them on.
And it is a problem that they are able to ride roughshod over our rights when so many assumed the checks and balances were there to protect them.
The problem is when SAGE and Boris and Javid are prepared to “ride roughshod over laws, ethics and principles” ?
The behavioural psychologists of SAGE are much closer to home – should we deal with them before Putin?
And the BIT “Nudge” creeps.
Clearly you must also be an antivaxxer and granny killer.
May I suggest you deal with such future questions with: ‘I’m not an ignorant mindless blob’. Let them infer from that what they will.
“the friend looked at me and said, “are you Russian, are you a Russian sympathiser!!!””
Ask them what they think about the UK’s Conservative Party receiving money from Russia?
Same as Scargill getting money from the Soviet Union, I’d guess…
Isn’t that what prisons are for? (The new ones, anyway.)
The same for Biden. By contrast, it’s reported that Vladimir Putin’s ratings in Russia have gone up.
Not just in Russia
No comfort for the Russian anti-war protesters being locked up.
We are not living in a Morality Play, Russians will understand this.
Not the Russians being locked up for questioning what globalist thug Putin is doing.
Give us the link.
Is it really so difficult to type “Russian anti-war protestors arrested” into a search engine and look yourself?
Ah….Google. That paragon of impartiality.
Nothing strang about that, he will be seen as sticking up for his country, right or wrong.
Bit old fashioned but it works.
Looking at Mrs Trudeau’s little boy I am reminded of a Yorkshire born Royal Marine friend who once observed, about a singularly objectionable little squit outside a pub in Union Street Plymouth, “he’s got the sort of face you just can’t stop hitting once you’ve started”.
Should have submitted that to Reader’s Digest at the time.
What I find shocking is that, apparently, 20% of Canadians would like to life under the yolk of tyranny.
You may be overegging that metaphor.
🤣
Sorry 😢
The yoke’s on you.
Scrambling to freedom?
Failure to negotiate – failure to compromise – failure to even enter dialogue.
Failure to respect human rights – failure to respect peoples’ property – failure to respect parliament.
Failure to respect Canada’s constitution.
Failure to resist the demands of the WEF.
Out-and-out failure.
First rule of conflict resolution… open a dialogue with other party to establish a clear line of communication, build trust, seek common ground, explore mutually acceptable compromises.
Just as ‘the West’ is doing with Russia right now.
it is comforting to know we are so well led by competent ‘leaders’.
Out and out treason!
Is Turdeau still alive/in power?
Get back to me when either of those change.
alive yes
in power – only what the WEF tells him to do.
I wonder, what would Daddy have said?
Fidel?
Yes, father of Jussie Castreau
Just noticed, he’s wearing a ‘Ukraine ribbon’……..the man who shredded the Canadian constitution is ‘standing against tyranny’.
Even for Trudeau that is a priceless example of sanctimony.
‘Uphold ze narrative, my leetle Justin. You vill be revarded. Lovingly yours, Klaus.’
Ah yes: Je suis Ukraine.
d’accord
LOL!!
Priceless, as usual.
The Left have long been distinguished by their ability to hold utterly opposed views at the same time.
He may just have been a WEF flagholder, to see if it could be pulled off.
It’s not a good look, though, to accuse those who don’t agree with your policies of holding ‘unacceptable views’.
With a bit of luck, he’ll be in the tumbrel next to Blair one day…
Didn’t Mrs. Clinton accuse her opponents of being ‘unacceptable people’?
Deplorables
His polls have nosedived because of his reaction to the Truckers’ protest, not due to lockdowns and vaccinations per se.
He showed he was a tyrant and a sociopath, intolerant of dissent and honest protest and disagreement.
The fact that he was completely on the wrong side of the Covid argument from start to finish matters less in polling terms because the vast majority are still completely ignorant about the truth concerning Covid19, appropriate treatment regimens and the appalling risk-benefits ratio of vaccines, particularly for the healthy and young.
If the majority of Canadians read RJK Jnr’s book and understood its first 100 pages, Trudeau would probably need a new identity and a new life undercover.
While having no sympathy for Trudeau, calling people names and arresting some for bringing the Capital City to a halt is hardly the act of Ivan The Terrible.
If that is the case I’m very disappointed with Canadians as a whole, I expected them to fully back their truckers, same applies to Australians and New Zealanders, they need to remove their leaders asap and this can only be achieved by everyone, and I mean everyone in those countries to come out and support them.
We need an urgent discussion with that 20%.
If they’re not listening now, they never will.
What did they expect, that people actually like their lives wrecked?. Common Purpose trained leaders, have no idea of the real world.
Didn’t Senator Lindsey Graham have something to say this week about authoritarian dictators? He seems to be keeping quiet about Trudeau (I always like to imagine Peter Sellers saying that name in the style of his best overhammed Clouseau)
Even lower than they were last week? He better learn to limbo under the X axis!
Canadians are plain weird. (I give you Neil Young and Joni Mitchell as examples.) I always assume it’s because they feel inferior internationally and so are happy to accept tyrannical rule if their leader appears to be “strong”.
Wonder what Beber thinks and that girl who sung skater boy
If ever there were a sweeping statement, there’s one.
Justin Trudeau will find out that when he is of no further use to the Cabal, they’ll toss him away like a soiled tissue. The Cabal’s other puppet in Ukraine is, I suspect, now on the cusp of finding out exactly how little he actually means to the gangsters that put him in power.
Check the image below of the first meeting between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators. Zelenskyy’s negotiators are on the right and are clearly of the gangster variety. Basically, it is a crew of thugs negotiating with Russia on behalf of Biden’s White House, not senile Biden, mind you, but his string-pullers.
Putin said he was going to deNazify Ukraine; this picture goes towards showing there are thugs right at the top of Ukrainian government alongside Zelenskyy.
I suspect Zelenskyy is on the verge of a severe learning curve; he’ll soon see that when he’s of no further use to the Cabal, they’ll toss him away like a soiled rag. In the meantime, they’ll keep him surrounded by thugs to make sure he sticks to the script.
Hopefully Trudeau’s turn comes soon.
Russia’s thugs are more upstanding because they wear suits and ties?
So, you think it’s alright for government officials to go to a meeting to negotiate an end to a war that that threatens would peace dressed like they are thugs conducting a drug’s deal?
You give away quite a lot about your provenance and upbringing by suggesting this. Even wild animals preen and clean themselves in order to impress their peers, and the likes of you haven’t got a grasp on this yet?
All WEF/globalist puppets on the stage playing their roles, get a grip.
Bob Moran, on the nail as ever…
Sometimes there’s a need to spend time carefully articulating your thoughts. Other times you can just keep it simple. This is definitely the latter. The guy is a c*@t.
We live in a more peaceful place than at any previous time in Human History but that’s another story. Entirely Off Topic but perhaps a bit of antidote for those who, unsurprisingly, feel that the world 🌍 has sunk into a sh*t-hole 🌋 occupied by incompetent, unhelpful w*nkers in the wake of Covid and now Ukraine. Been in hospital 🏥 for a while; the food is adequate but bland and samey (it’s not a hotel) so to enhance my diet at 🌒 1am 🕐 this morning I placed a digital 🥖 snacks 🥐 order with Morrisons Groceries 🍅 via Amazon Distribution altering this at 3am 🕒 but, coming into Saturday, thought no more about it until perhaps Monday. To my surprise at 2pm 🕑 this same afternoon I received a text message saying my order was ‘nearly there’ and 1/2 hour later that it had arrived 👋 . Not wishing to lose track of my goodies I tried to contact Hospital Reception but before they answered their phone in strode a familiar Nurswith my two packages. So Shout Outs 👍 to Morrisons PLC for such speedy fulfilment of my wishes, to Amazon 🏆 for expediting it equally rapidly, to Amazons… Read more »
Bloody Brilliant. Now try Deliveroo 🤣🤣🤣
Morrison’s banned sick pay for unvaxxed workers and Bezos is sat at the Cabal’s high table.
No friends or family who could’ve provided a similar service?
You’re a hypocrite.
“Morrison’s banned sick pay for unvaxxed workers”
I hadn’t forgotten that. There’s a lot of hypocrisy about – all that talk of boycotting Tesco when their Christmas advert showed Santa showing his Vaxx Pass, yet people on here still reporting their shopping trips to Tesco… because “it’s convenient” and other excuses. Mention this, though, and a barrage of downticks is incoming!
Fake rage.
Recognizing that a Company has provided a good service is not an endorsement of their internal politic.
See my previous comment about Hitlers continuing Weimers Autobahm Programme does not make motorway building a facist ideal.
Para 2. Quite, of would have (if not so rapidly or door to door).
3. Not worthy of rebuttal except that you are a fat, smelly tospot.
So? Zhe called a snap election last year, zhe’s completely secure in zer Secure, Undisclosed Bunker. See also the Little Emperor Micron, who has overseen revolt after revolt after revolt in zis term, and just hid in zis golden palace until they all blew over.
Opinion polls mean less than nothing: a week is an eternity in politics.
Image of the day:
”A man does good business when he rids himself of a turd”. Said some long dead king. I get the feeling he was right.
You knew it was comming…
Trudeau using war in Ukraine to push more censorship in Canada
https://odysee.com/@RebelNews:9/trudeau-war-ukraine-more-censorship-canada:4
Boys Cry.
Couldn’t find a song called Pretty Boys Cry.
The Cure – “Boy’s Don’t Cry.”
Puteau
More WEF putain.
Do Canada use Dominion voting machines? Would explain why Trudeaus’ WEF Deputy is not concerned what the plantation thinks.
Chrystia Freeland ?
That most liberal of Liberals ?
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees ?
Gloating, whilst announcing the freezing of personal assests of trucker protesters and their supporters, after previously voicing support for the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests ?
Author of, ‘Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012)’ ?
And, just ftr, has a maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak (Ukrainian: Mykhailo Khomiak), who was an alleged Nazi sympathiser and anti-semite. She also speaks Ukranian and co-owns an apartment overlooking Indepence Square in Kyiv.
How ironic ?
It’s almost as if Trudeau has been set up as the fall guy/sacrificial lamb, having called a recent snap election, for the WEF stooge lined up to take over when the proverbial hits the fan ?
Am I a tin hat wearing, anti-vaxxer, anti-establishment, anti-MSM, conspiracy theorist ???
Or a realist ?
It’s all been put in place for collapse. Rockefella’s Lockstep document lays it out. I’m thinking they’ll release another bioweapon later this year along with a cyber attack. Which will definitely move attention away from this year (of 3) die-off.
We’ll be using them soon. There was a petition against the use of vote-counting machines – it grew suspiciously slowly, then ran out of time.
Polls means nothing, elections are controlled by the elite, even if he loses his replacement will be the same person.
True.
But we really MUST stop calling them ”elite”. It’s THEIR name for themselves, and that’s their self perception. Listening to Swabbie (horrible but had to be done) speaking, he kept referring to his despicable tribe as ”elite”.
Surely we can find another word to more accurately describe them?
Trudeau reminds me of a football firm apprentice sent into the opposing firm’s mob to test both his mettle, and the opposition’s strength.
The biggest concern which seems to have escaped scrutiny is now the reality of “you will own nothing and be happy”
Trudeau in shutting down the bank accounts of even minor donors on go fund me, and now Google and Apple pay, plus Governments freezing Russian spending and bank accounts (ordinary Russian people did not start the war with Ukraine, the elite oligarchs including Putin did) demonstrates that the money which we believe is ours, the bank acounts we believe are holding our money is all a fantasy. They the Government the puppets of the Oligarchs and WEF they already control and can take our money away from us, stop us being able to defend ourselve in court as how can you pay for a lawyer without access to money?. Nope its already here the world of the Great Reset, demonstrated by Trudeau and our own Government, they can shut you down any time they want.
You have really made my evening!
Is the picture recent and if so what on earth is the heart-shaped swelling under his ear and over his jaw? Doesn’t look good.