Close to 40 years after his father, Pierre Trudeau, took his proverbial walk in the snow, it is time for Justin Trudeau to do the same thing and resign.

As was also true for his father, Justin, is a very proud man and wants to make the most important decision of his life when he is ready. After nine years in the country’s top job, we owe him this much.

Now that he is in a blizzard of controversy and his leadership is extremely fragile, Justin Trudeau must take Parliament’s holiday break to reflect and then announce that he is leaving.

​The late stages of Pierre Trudeau’s career were much as they are now for Justin. Pierre Trudeau’s closest ally and confidant, Marc Lalonde worried back in 1984 that Pierre no longer had the support of his caucus.      
   
Now, Justin Trudeau has just had his erstwhile strongest supporter and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland leave his side in a bitter departure that rocked the nation.

Marshal Phillipe Petain the future leader of the part of France that was collaborating with Adolf Hitler, stated: “In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.” This prompted Churchill’s strong retort.

Adolf Hitler’s forces had easily marched into France and the world was a very scary place at that time, as it is today.

The grit of Churchill inspired Canadians to rally to Churchill’s call to defeat Adolf Hitler and his juggernaut.

Why should Canadians stand up to the bully figure of Trump today? Because it does matter when Trump pushes us around and shows he does not respect us as a people. The world is again headed in a very dangerous direction, and as the old saying tells us, the world has a way of beating its path to our door.

The dangers signals are there with Trump. No sooner had he won a massive victory in the Presidential election than he began parading out the most frightening, self-serving, mega-rich individuals to conduct his faulty vision for the United States, Canada and the World.

From out of a very dark cave, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally took steps this week toward restoring his reputation as a man with a purpose.
 
Along with his Public Safety Minister, Dominic Leblanc and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, the PM flew down to have an important dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate. It was not an earth-shattering occasion, but if was significant in view of Trump’s threat to impose a twenty-five per cent tariff on all goods entering the U.S.A.
 
Furthermore, when Mr. Trudeau returned to Ottawa, he quickly briefed the leaders of the Opposition parties, including Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre who until then had kept his distance from any involvement in a Team Canada approach to the tariff threat.
 
It was an action-packed week with yet another notice of a Conservative Non-Confidence Motion for the government. Get serious, Mr. Poilievre: A “Carbon Tax election” during the Holiday Season and when there is a national crisis over the tariff!