Time to Go

Time to Go
Canada is witnessing the end of an era. Justin Trudeau announced on January 6 his intention to resign as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party as soon as the party selects a new leader. He also announced that until March 24, Canada’s Parliament cannot pass laws, debate or hold committee meetings. Most importantly, it cannot hold no-confidence votes. An election will probably be called as soon as Parliament resumes; expect April.
Who will replace Trudeau as Liberal Party leader? Two main contenders are former finance minister Chrystia Freeland and the former head of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, Mark Carney. Whoever it is will face oblivion at the ballot box.
Trudeau came to power with his “sunny ways”; his charismatic, social-media-friendly campaign masked his radical policies. Canadians wanted progressivism. But 10 years of the fruits of Trudeau’s Communist agenda have left a bitter taste in the mouths of Canadians. The country has sustained irreparable damage. As Trudeau exits, most of the nation is thinking, Good riddance.
Under Trudeau, Canada suffered bitter affliction: runaway inflation, rising poverty, increasing violent crime, a housing crisis, an immigration crisis, rampant drug use, a failing military, a shattered global reputation, a $62 billion deficit and diminished freedoms.
Yet for a decade, Trudeau was invincible. Though his government caused scandal after scandal, he was never held to account. During the covid-19 pandemic, Trudeau ruled as a monarch. The Freedom Convoy was the largest grassroots protest in history, and Trudeau crushed it with an authoritarian fist.
Now the tide is turning. The direction of Canadian politics has changed dramatically in the past year. Though Trudeau is still not being held accountable by the Canadian electorate, another force is behind Trudeau’s exit. His resignation is tied to earthshaking Bible prophecies.
One of the most important trends of 2024 was the sudden decline of the radical left in North America. Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau followed parallel courses. Their political decline began within days of each other: Trudeau’s party lost the June 24 by-election in the traditional Liberal stronghold of St. Paul’s in Toronto, and Biden’s disastrous debate took place on June 27.
Both men were puppets of Barack Obama. They relied on him to gain and maintain power. Their regimes parroted each other’s policies and worked in tandem. As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in America Under Attack, Obama embodies the movement to blot out the name of Israel—the United States and the British Commonwealth. (For proof, request your own free copy of
The United States and Britain in Prophecy.)
The first significant turning point was when God began to silence Obama. Mr. Flurry wrote in the September 2024 Trumpet: “Barack Obama’s power is diminishing before our eyes. … He set out to blot out the name of Israel, and now God is giving him a taste of his own evil: God is blotting out his power and silencing him. … We will see this even more plainly in the time ahead.”
Trudeau’s fate is tied to Obama’s. The collapse of Biden’s campaign, then Kamala Harris’s, were harbingers of Trudeau’s downfall.
After the June 24 by-election loss, look how Trudeau lost his grip:
- September: Liberal stronghold of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun (Montreal) by-election is lost. New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh ends agreement protecting Trudeau’s government from a no-confidence vote.
- October: Two dozen Liberal caucus members revolt and send Trudeau a letter requesting his resignation.
- November: President-elect Donald Trump threatens 25 percent tariffs on Canadian trade.
- December: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from the cabinet. Atlantic and Quebec caucuses call for Trudeau’s resignation.
The blow Trudeau could not survive was the return of Donald Trump, whose political resurrection fulfills prophecies in Amos 7 and 2 Kings 14 (explained in America Under Attack). Trump’s tariff threats exposed Trudeau’s weakness. His humiliating social media posts about Canada becoming the 51st state collapsed any confidence Trudeau’s supporters had in his leadership. In the end, it was Donald Trump who brought down Justin Trudeau, not Canadians.
This is miraculous. God intervened to break Trudeau’s iron grip on Canada. The truth is, Trudeau is not being pushed out of power by voters, but by the hand of God.
Trudeau is not a regular prime minister; he is a tyrant, a despot and a traitor. But he is positioning himself to depart his self-made throne without having to face a reckoning. He resigned on his terms and gave himself three months to govern Canada with no parliamentary oversight. Will he hide evidence of high crimes? Will he try to entrench his Communist-progressive agenda in the civil service? Is he plotting his own political resurrection, as his father, Pierre Trudeau, did in 1980? Hopefully the truth will be exposed.
Trudeau’s departure is a historic moment. It marks the possible end of the Communist infiltration that has afflicted Canada for generations, starting with the 1968 election of Pierre Trudeau. Of the past 57 years, Canada has been governed by the Trudeau family for 25. It has been fundamentally transformed.
Why did God drive Justin Trudeau from office? This moment is a golden opportunity to effect real change in the country. It is not change that comes from political policy, elections or the departure of a tyrant. The change Canada needs is repentance toward God.
It is easy to blame Trudeau for Canada’s problems, and he certainly is accountable for what he has done. But the problem is much deeper. The worst tyrant in Canada is not Trudeau, but their own sins.
Notice God’s appraisal of Canada today in Isaiah 1:4-6: “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”
That is a tough message to accept, but Trudeau’s departure is an opportunity to honestly appraise our own lives. We need to beware the tyranny of sin. Just as God removed Trudeau, He can remove sin from our lives. As the Trudeau era ends, we can begin a new age of repentance and faith.