Is Justin Trudeau’s time as Prime Minister slowly coming to an end?

BY STEVEN KASZAB

The Liberals have won the day with a new mandate and Cabinet to boot. Is Justin Trudeau’s time as Prime minister slowly coming to an end? What will the “New” Liberals look like? Who will command the Liberal Ship in the near future?

Justin Trudeau won the election by the skin of his teeth, and he knows something needs to change within his administration or the Liberals face being shut out of power in the next few years. What to do? Well, they can keep their promises with regards to many different portfolios such as the environment, climate change, a new energy policy and real reform of Canada’s Military and RCMP.

There are three appointments that show the Prime Minister is finally taking his mandate seriously. Steven Guilbeault has been promoted to Minister of the Environment and Climate Change. I guess the idea is to throw a proponent of change into the mix, and hopefully something good will come out of it. Steven is a protester, viewed as an environmental radical, but well known for his viewpoints throughout the Global Green Movement. Perhaps he will allow the energy corporations to continue on their merry way but cap their abilities to produce products. Imagine Albertans told to produce just enough gas and oil, with annual levels lowered until they cannot produce enough products to be profitable. This winter is going to bring huge price increases in home heating fuels, gas for our automobiles and hydro increases. Some will be due to green taxes, while the rest is just simple corporate greed.

Anita Anand will have the difficult job of reforming Canada’s Boys Club, the Canadian Military as our new Minister of Defence. Anita was lucky enough to assure the procurement of COVID-19 Vaccines to Canada, so I guess the powers to be wish to see what she can do in her portfolio. A woman telling the Military’s Chiefs of Staff what to do? It brings to mind a saying that goes like this, “Well behaved women seldom make history” (E. Roosevelt). Will Anita be the stereotypical bureaucrat and let the military walk all over her, or will she pull on her boots and start walking over these bullies who rule our women and men of the military. If she does well, I can only hope she is sent to the RCMP to clean that mess up too. Is the Prime Minister in search of a star cabinet member he can rely upon?

Patty Hajdu has been given another difficult portfolio, that of Minister of Indigenous Affairs and Economic Development of Northern Ontario. Moving from one massive portfolio to another, we need to see if she is up to the massive challenges the Indigenous portfolio has to offer. Dealing with issues like: Truth and Reconciliation, certain lawsuits against the federal government because of the boarding school crisis, solving the multiple land claims, answering the Indigenous claims of mistreatment and governmental mismanagement of all things Indigenous.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland remains the administrations number two, also running the Ministry of Finance; this lady will receive a proportionate amount of pressure to deliver for Canadians. Simply put, Chrystia Freeland is a lady of the future, while Justin Trudeau must slowly fade away and move into The Global Political Field, perhaps the United Nations?

One of these stars will soon step up to become Canada’s first women Liberal Prime Minister. Remember this one folks … a woman is like a tea bag; you don’t know how strong she is until she is in hot water.

The Liberal administration has many crises to deal with, and with that a lot of hot water to share. Good luck folks.