Wycliffe wrote:The Tomerlands wrote:Can someone explain why Justin Trudeau is hated by so many people?
He isn't, really. Just about 30% of Canadians who will hate any liberal, just like the 30% who hate all Conservatives, the 10% who hate both and support the NDP, and everyone else in between.
Specific things that have brought down his popularity would be: his support for carbon pricing (a carbon tax, not popular with the west), his youth-oriented social justice policy (kind of alienating people who think he takes it too far), some of the things he says and does (you'll get an earful from Conservatives about his trip to India, while no one else cares about it), and some of the shady stuff a few of his caucus members have been caught up in. Like Morneau's French villa or Harjit Sajjan's role in Afghanistan. Personally, I don't think any of this really means any real trouble for him. The economy is doing well and the country is better off than it was four years ago.
Okay. Thank you for explaining. Much better then any of the previous replies.
I happen to agree with a few criticisms of him, mostly from the left of Canada that he's a shill for neoliberalism and corporatism like how he wants to build that pipeline in British Columbia. If I lived in Canada I would support the New Democratic Party but I don't really hate Justin or the Liberals. They did legalize marijuana federally and approved of that bill that so many butthurt conservative bitched about.