Trudeau taps out: How Trump's taunts and tariff threats added to domestic woes confronting Canada's long-standing PM

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Indeed, right-of-center populists such as Trump have been able to make great political capital in painting opponents as identity politicians.
46% : While in the U.S. figuratively dead presidents rarely come back to life - with Grover Cleveland and Trump the only ones to return after a reelection loss - in Canada, there is a bit more of a tradition of political resurrection.
45% : Canadians are looking for someone who can negotiate with Trump from a position of strength, and that doesn't appear to be Trudeau.
42% : Instead, he is perceived to have cowered before Trump, further damaging his reputation at home.
41% : The Conversation turned to Patrick James, an expert on Canadian-U.S. relations and Dean's Professor Emeritus at USC Dornsife, to explain why Trudeau chose now to bow out - and what role Trump played in his departure.
41% : And the timing may provide an opportunity for Trudeau's successor to start afresh with Trump and forge a relationship that is either stronger or, alternatively, to reassert a degree of Canadian resistance to Trump.
19% : The Canadian economy isn't in good shape, and a 25% tariff - as envisioned by Trump - would be disastrous.

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