I Doubt Trump Had Anything To Do With Trudeau's Expected Resignation

A NUMBER OF years ago, Margaret Atwood wrote an amusing essay for The Nation in which she said Canadian's looked like Porky Pig with their noses pressed against the glass watching things in their bad neighbor to their South but at least they're looking,  Americans, especially those in states that don't share a border with Canada hardly know it's there. 

I've been seeing online chatter speculating on how Trump made Trudeau resign when it's certain that Trump had nothing to do with it.   If anything Trump attacking Trudeau and Canadian independence would have forestalled the inevitable.   Trudeau has been the leader of the Liberals for more than a decade and the Prime Minister of Canada for nine years,  what's surprising is that he has lasted as long as he has, especially as he is PM through a coalition with parties with importantly different agendas than the Liberals in general - the diversity within the Liberal Party being plenty significant to lead to trouble.   As an American Democrat, I'm certainly used to that dynamic,  conservatives, both American Republican-fascists and the various conservatives elsewhere have the overriding value of greed to unify them.  

The various ministers in his own government who left over corruption (the Lavalin affair, for example) and the recent forcing out of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland last month have entirely more to do with why he needs to step down now to give Liberals any hope in the upcoming election.   

I've never been all that wowed by Justin Trudeau though I acknowledged he was better than the conservative alternatives.  One thing I learned from both the Kennedy and Clinton and other would be dynasties of Democrats and the most corrupt one in modern American history, the Bush crime family,  is that political families should always engender skepticism.   I read that Justin Trudeau says that his failure to institute what would have been a truly great political reform,  ranked-choice-voting, which means that a majority would almost never get their last choice governing them.   That he didn't give such an important democracy enhancing and People empowering provision made law has to mean he was never all that strong on it.   It should have been among the first things he did, not the thing he didn't do.    

I hope that the next chance Canadians get to institute that kind of democracy enhancing reform, they go for it.   Without it, I don't see much hope for the upcoming government which will probably be a particularly corrupt Conservative one.   I don't think Canadians have been as corrupted as Americans have in a majority of the states but there's plenty corruption to be getting on with everywhere.