Why Won’t Pierre Poilievre Get His Security Clearance? 3:54 Min.by Justin Trudeau, March 8, 2025
One of the most important jobs of the Prime Minister is keeping Canadians safe.
But Pierre Poilievre is refusing to get a top secret security clearance — the same clearance every party leader needs to make critical national security decisions.
With reports of foreign countries trying to interfere in Canada’s elections, Poilievre’s refusal to take national security threats seriously is raising serious questions. Experts say Poilievre needs to get his clearance to keep Canada safe. Yet he won’t. Why not?
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@carolemacneil Mar 9, 2025:
A lot of people are applauding, praising @JustinTrudeau including people who previously disliked him or worse (as pointed out in the editorial below). I’ve asked people why they hated him so much, and the answers were often vague or downright false (not smart, communist dictator), driven by feeling more than intellect. So maybe it’s time to consider that many of us Canadians were successfully influenced by a nefarious social media campaign to hate our Prime Minister, and then, when we came face to face with the man in this crisis, as opposed to memes, the reality of who he is turned out to be something quite different. Social media can be used to manipulate us all. #cdnpolitics #CPC #Liberal
@MoralityPLS Mar 9, 2025:
This is what the all powerful IDU, postmedia and the CPC did to cda. 9years of brainwashing.
spewing on about his socks his vacays his beard, while ford was setting up backchannels to russia, harper was running back and forth to india as they interferred in our elections and sovereignty, harper running ont, sk and AB, harper genociding in israel with BB…
complete brainwashing.
@malolisica:
Who does Pierre Poilievre work for? Try to get a security clearance and we may finally find out.
PierrePoilievreIsUnelectable
1MikeMorris:
This is a brilliant piece about a man rejected by his own party, by much of the public, by the press… who put it all behind him and ROSE TO MEET THE MOMENT:
Trudeau’s last days are his finest hour by John DeMont, Mar 07, 2025, Saltwire
I never understood the deep personal animus so many Canadians felt toward Justin Trudeau. And I suppose the prime minister didn’t either.
Otherwise — his star power faded after nine years in power, beleaguered by clashes with ministers, and rising inflation and housing prices — he would have stepped down before it took a nasty, very public caucus revolt to force his resignation.
But I do get why people say that his last days as first minister — which end as soon as Sunday’s newly elected Liberal leader takes over — have been his finest hour.
After being humiliatingly deposed, he could have sulked.
He could have churlishly retired to his castle, the young prince suddenly turned aging King Lear, and raged against the forces that led to his downfall.
He could have been a classic lame duck with no influence because his term was ending, with no imperative to do much of anything since he is not seeking office again.
Instead, liberated from the distraction of plunging popularity poll numbers, a seething electorate and a disgruntled caucus, he has chosen another way: the way of the statesman and the patriot, as it must be for a wartime prime minister.
As the country faces an existential threat, he is fighting the battle of our lifetime for a country that had turned its back on him. What is more, he is doing so right up to the very last minute, earning the respect of his staunchest critics and, in the process, rewriting the finale of his prime minister-ship.
How hard, for someone known to possess an ego, has it been to endure the playground-level insults and curses of a lesser man? To sit amid the bling and Botox of Mar-a-Lago, while being belittled as the “governor of the 51st state” while Trump’s MAGA hyenas cackled and whooped.
To hear your nation dismissed as “an artificial country” by an administration filled with cranks and fruitcakes, and Canadian citizens derided as lemmings who would surrender to the madness of the Nero to the south as easily as the members of the GOP have.
Yet, he kept his powder dry. He picked his spots.
Not once has he wavered, whether it came to his support of the people of Ukraine, or standing shoulder to shoulder with Canada’s democratic allies and fighting for his own country.
As the U.S. pressure grew — to the point where it must now be viewed as a genuine security threat to Canada — his resolve, and that of his government, seemed to stiffen.
When something big was needed, Trudeau somehow rose to the moment. His “You can’t take our country—and you can’t take our game” comment after the big hockey game may serve as a rallying cry, along with Jeff Douglas’s I Am Canadian rant, for the resistance that follows.
He nailed speech after speech. The one he made earlier this week announcing our response to the U.S. tariffs, which drew praise around the world, is the best I have ever heard by a Canadian politician.
Canadians fist-pumped as he called the U.S. president simply “Donald” and his tariffs “dumb,” and told the American people that they would feel the resulting economic pain, from which they have only their own government to blame.
Throughout, Trudeau’s tone — the dignified anger, the steely conviction — was perfect.
“Today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, and their closest friend. At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying murderous dictator. Make that make sense.”
The time for mincing words was long gone. Trump’s tariffs had nothing to do with immigration or fentanyl, the prime minister said. “What he wants to see is a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us.”
When Trump wilted, as he so often does when faced with resistance, and talked of some sort of moderation on the U.S. tariffs if we did the same, our government said not unless every one of yours go first.
Everything, moving forward, has changed. With an enemy rather than an ally as our neighbour, there is near unanimity that we must bolster our military and shore up our borders. We must seek new alliances, economic and otherwise.
Now there are those who say that Trudeau and the Liberals, for a variety of reasons, left us vulnerable to Trump’s megalomania. That what is happening is somehow the victim’s fault.
I no more subscribe to that line of thinking than I swallow Trump’s assertions that it would be good for all Canadians to join his country.
It will require a team effort to protect our sovereignty. But all teams need someone to take the point. We, luckily, have been led by someone who stood tall against tyranny as the tectonic plates of history shifted, who never gave up on his country, even though his country had arguably given up on him.
History, I believe, will not forget what he did when the times demanded it. My suspicion is neither will Canada.