Trudeau’s major problem is that he has painted himself into a corner. It is standard practice for the left to brush any opposition as radicals. That is why he came out swinging with the “white supremacist” schtick. He was hoping that he could label them early on and the whole thing would fizzle. Unfortunately for him, the truckers have more staying power than he thought. Now he can’t be seen bending the knee to people that he just called racists and Nazis. So unless he wants to eat a lot of crow, and alienate whatever base he has left, he needs another way out.

I question his base, because he is taking shots from both sides right now. The conservatives are bashing him with the fact that several other countries, and blue states in the US are relaxing restrictions. The liberals are wanting him to come down with the full force of the Canadian government and crush the truckers. These are standard political arguments from the right and the left.

So now consider the fact that the truckers have established a stranglehold on their entire economy. I am going to have to give the advantage to the truckers here. The right and left can make their arguments in parliament, but very soon, every average joe in the country is going to feel the pain. It won’t matter whether you are right or left when there is nothing to buy at the corner store.

With all of that laid out, I think there are only a couple of off ramps for Trudeau. He can step aside. This is what a lot of the country, and parliament seems to want at this point.  Or he could try and wrap the US into his problems.

I think Ezra Levant is correct in the thread he posted yesterday:

18. Biden gets the CDC to announce that The Science™️ has evolved again, and St. Fauci now says truckers don't need to be vaccinated to cross the border. Biden's policies are working so well, they can be retired already! Biden is a friend of the working man!

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 10, 2022

20. You can't have a cross-border vaccine mandate in one direction. Biden will move, Trudeau will follow. He'll say it was for Canada-U.S. relations, and that it wasn't because of those racist, sexist, Nazi truckers.

But of course, it will be. And everyone will know it.

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 10, 2022

That seems a good way for Justin to save face, and solve his problems. That way he can placate his base, and the truckers get what they want. This will all depend on the the timetable that feeble Joe can push through. Poor Trudeau may not have a have enough time to get there though. It depends on how much pain is inflicted on the rest of the population that hasn’t chosen sides yet. If they start to go hungry, he will have lost completely.