Canada's Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT Prime Minister Resigns

Following President-elect Donald Trump's historic reelection in November, Canada's far-left prime minister has officially announced his resignation. On Monday morning, Justin Trudeau declared that he would be stepping down as leader of Canada's Liberal Party and, thus, as prime minister.

"So last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today. I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process," said Trudeau, who has held the office of prime minister since 2015. He explained, "This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I'm having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election."

According to a survey published late last year, Trudeau's approval rating has sunk as low as 33%, with 67% of Canadians disapproving of the prime minister's job performance, including 38% who "strongly disapprove." Last month, as many as 45 Canadian members of parliament (MPs) called on Trudeau to resign, after his deputy, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, quit. According to Freeland, Trudeau does not "take seriously" the potential for a "tariff war" with the incoming Trump administration, focusing instead on "costly political gimmicks..."

Under Trudeau's decade-long tenure, Canada's government enacted increasingly progressive and tyrannical policies, culminating in the introduction of the country's disastrous euthanasia program. After being sworn in as prime minister, Trudeau emphasized that feminism, abortion, and the LGBT agenda were at the top of his list of policy priorities. 

In comments to The Washington Stand, Laura Klassen, founder and director of the Canadian-based pro-life organization Choice42, underscored, "Justin Trudeau's love for baby slaughter (abortion) is truly disturbing." She continued, "He constantly obsesses over the abortion issue, even though abortion throughout all nine months has been possible for years in Canada, as Canada does not currently have an abortion law."

Trudeau was the first sitting prime minister to march in an LGBT Pride parade, a tradition he continued almost annually throughout his time in office. His administration quickly banned what opponents call "conversion therapy" (which is largely talk therapy for those who experience unwanted same-sex attraction) and increased immigration limits and quotas. Although provincial governments warned Trudeau about the negative impacts of mass migration, especially on the housing market, the prime minister brought approximately one million immigrants into the country annually.

In 2016, Trudeau's administration legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide. While initially restricted only to adults with terminal illnesses, the law was quickly expanded and, in 2027, euthanasia and assisted suicide will also be made available to those with mental illnesses. 

According to the current law, any adult with an illness deemed "irremediable," whether terminal or not, may request euthanasia or assisted suicide, and doctors are permitted to recommend euthanasia or assisted suicide, even if a patient has already declined. Additionally, doctors who object to committing euthanasia or assisted suicide are legally required to provide referrals, sending patients who want euthanasia to doctors who will commit it.

The relatively lax guidelines around euthanasia law in Trudeau's Canada have been extensively criticized. Some commentators have warned that those living in poverty may see euthanasia as a valid escape, while others have accused the Canadian government of "euthanizing its poor" instead of investing in social and welfare programs. 

In 2020, shortly before legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide were expanded, the Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer admitted that the euthanasia and assisted suicide law enacted in 2016 saves the Canadian government an estimated $86.9 million annually, while the expanded law would save the government a total of $148.9 million per year.

Some of the most egregious examples of abuse of the euthanasia and assisted suicide laws include a man being treated for a form of ataxia alleging that the hospital providing his treatment gave him a choice between either being forcibly discharged or euthanized; a man institutionalized for suicidal ideation successfully applied for the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, citing "hearing loss" as his reason for seeking euthanasia; a man in Ontario applied for MAID rather than face homelessness but withdrew his application when a grassroots fundraising effort raised $60,000 for him to spend on housing; a member of the Canadian Forces reported that euthanasia was recommended to him when he sought treatment for PTSD; another Canadian Forces veteran and former Paralympian claimed that Veterans Affairs Canada recommended euthanasia to her when she requested assistance with the installation of a wheelchair lift, with a subsequent investigation reporting four such cases in total.

Beginning in 2021, a spate of arson attacks resulted in Catholic churches across Canada being burned to the ground. The inciting factor was the claim of "mass graves" where indigenous children were unceremoniously buried after being maltreated at Catholic-run residential schools. Although the claim was exposed as a hoax in 2024, Trudeau, who calls himself Catholic, excused the arson attacks as "fully understandable." As of early 2024, at least 85 churches had been burned down, including some over 100 years old.

In 2020, Trudeau's government enacted severe COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, including forcibly shutting down churches and requiring Canadians to receive COVID shots in order to travel. These restrictions remained in place for several years. From December 2020 to February 2022, Polish-Canadian evangelical pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested and fined multiple times for hosting in-person worship services, failing to wear a mask in public, and organizing and participating in lockdown and "vaccine" mandate protests. 

Trudeau's government forcibly closed numerous other churches across Canada and fined and raided many. Senior Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel in Ontario, for example, reported that his church has had to pay over $200,000 in COVID-19-related fines since 2020.

Trudeau's unpopular "vaccine" mandates also prompted a nationwide protest in early 2022. Called the "Freedom Convoy," the protest initially consisted of commercial truck drivers traveling in convoys across the country, converging on the capital of Ottawa, opposing the government's "vaccine" mandate for all truck drivers traveling across the Canada-U.S. border. As the convoy protest began, a Canadian court froze access to over $9 million raised on fundraising platform GiveSendGo, after GoFundMe suspended the fundraising account for the convoy on its website, which had raised over $10 million.

By the end of January 2022, police estimated that up to 18,000 protestors had gathered in Ottawa. As police began carrying out arrests, convoy organizers vowed to continue occupying Ottawa until both federal and provincial governments agreed to "end all mandates associated with COVID-19." On February 14, Trudeau became the first prime minister to invoke the controversial Emergencies Act of 1988, which was an updated version of the War Measures Act, invoked by Trudeau's father, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, to address domestic terrorism in 1970. 

The Act allowed Trudeau to seize property and funds of protestors en masse and carry out mass arrests. Earlier this year, a Canadian federal court ruled that Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act was "not justified" and violated the legal rights of Canadians.

Klassen told TWS, "Trudeau resigning is a sigh of relief, but it is not a win for Canadian babies in the womb. Another Liberal leader will not help their plight, and the Conservative Party is not willing to speak out against abortion either." She added, "We can only hope and pray that a leader comes along who is willing to stand for all Canadians, including the most small and vulnerable humans in the womb."

Originally published at The Washington Stand