By Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief, iDose

Twelve days before Canada’s 2021 election, a question on the minds of many Canadians is whether Prime Minister Trudeau is about to be defeated. In the Q&A below, iDose editor-in-chief Aly Kamadia provides a brief snapshot of where things stand.

Did Trudeau make the right decision in calling for a federal election?

From a moral perspective, Trudeau’s decision to call for an election was disgusting.

We happen to be in middle of a ‘once in a century’ global pandemic. Many scientists are warning of new variants that might emerge and escape the protection of current vaccines. Canada is entering a horrific delta-defined wave that will spell tragedy for far too many Canadians.

Within this horrible context, Trudeau was facing no obstruction in passing important legislation with his minority government, thus calling an election was antithetical to the interests of Canadians.

Knowing all of this, why did Trudeau nevertheless call for an election?

Because Trudeau is simply an unethical man who’s astonishingly obsessed with personal political power. And the polling that him and his minions were seeing a few weeks ago, when the election was called, convinced them that the Liberals would attain an easy victory, and quite possibly a majority government.

It was a decision driven by the lust for political power – plain and simple.   

Is Trudeau about to lose his job?

Current polling indicates that both the Liberals and the Conservatives are in a virtual tie. Along with the facts that there are 12 days remaining until election day, many voters are only beginning to pay attention, and two important debates are taking place today and tomorrow, flipping a coin to forecast the outcome is as a credible as any prediction you might hear from an expert.

In terms of the debates, what are you looking for?

Trudeau came into power in 2015 as a fresh new face offering change. He’s done an excellent job at destroying his own brand and has failed to distinguish himself in any meaningful way during his time in office (at least in a positive way).

Given this reality, it’s not surprising that his campaign is attempting to frame the current moment as a choice between those who want to defeat the pandemic on one hand, and those who want to let Covid-19 torture Canada on the other (e.g., those who support vaccines vs. anti-vaxxers who want to terrorize everyone). In fact, even though Trudeau lacks any intellectual depth, his speech on Tuesday (Sept. 7^th) condemning anti-vaxxers after the gravel incident was quite politically effective.

And Erin O’Toole deserves some criticism in this area. The fact that the leader of the Conservative Party won’t confirm whether their candidates are vaccinated verifies that a number of Conservative candidates are still living in the Stone Age. (To say nothing of the fact that Conservative economic ideology is based on fiction, but I digress.)

But O’Toole’s brand is virtually a blank slate, and it’ll be interesting to see how effective he is in fashioning a brand during the debates. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if he continues to hammer away at the fact that Trudeau called for a completely unnecessary election while we’re entering yet another horrendous wave of Covid-19.

Finally, I’ll enjoy seeing Jagmeet Singh. Despite my many disagreements with the NDP and the fact that a brown guy in a turban has no chance in hell in being elected as a Canadian Prime Minister (our country is nowhere close to being that multicultural, says this East Indian writer), his honesty is refreshing in an age when rationality forces one to seek shelter in the arms of cynicism.

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