The Legacy of Justin Trudeau

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation this week, shortly after the stunning departure of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who brought years of service as the most surpassingly loyal member of his cabinet to a sudden and humiliating end. After taking office as a hero of liberal values in 2015, Trudeau instead spent the last nine years implementing some of the most progressive values of any world leader—and now the bill is due and he will leave 24 Sussex with an abysmal 22% approval rating. Still, conservative critics consistently fail to give the devil his due.

So what went wrong?

In a nutshell, Trudeau made a reasonable attempt to address the country’s looming demographic implosion using replacement migration. Why reasonable? Because the coming storm looks grim and the alternative looked rather rosy at the time.