Pierre Poilievre slams Trudeau's 'clown show' as Trump continues to mock embattled PM

At a news conference in Mississauga, ON Tuesday, Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s latest taunt against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying “everyone is laughing” at Trudeau.”

Trump called Trudeau “Governor Trudeau” of the 51st state again on Monday night as he commented on the surprise resignation of former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, calling her “totally toxic” and saying “she will not be missed.”

Poilievre led off the news conference by saying, “If you hire clowns, you’ll get a circus,” to describe the current state of the Trudeau government which has numerous vacated cabinet posts and now has Dominic LeBlanc as both the finance minister and public safety minister in addition to another minor portfolio. Trudeau has not responded to increased calls for his resignation.

"Yesterday’s post by President Trump shows that Justin Trudeau and his chaotic clown show makes Canada weak. Trudeau’s lost control of everything, lost control of borders, lost control of immigration, lost control of spending, inflation, and debt, and Canadians are paying the price for this chaotic NDP Liberal chown show. Everyone is laughing all around the world. Trudeau and the NDP Liberals are seen as ridiculous," Poilievre said.

“But the good news is that Canadians can elect a common sense Conservative government who had with a leader who has the brains and backbone to face President Trump, who has plans to unleash the productive forces of our workers and entrepreneurs to bring home our money and defend our economy and to take back control, take back control of our borders, immigration spending and everything else so that we can put Canada first,” Poilievre later added.

The Official Opposition Leader was also asked if Monday's Fall Economic Statement offered enough funding for border security by promising to spend $1.3 billion over six years. “We should not judge a program based on how expensive we can make it. We should judge it by what it can do: how many helicopters, how many drones, how many boots on the ground. That's the question I will be asking when I'm prime minister, and how do we deliver it for the lowest possible price to taxpayers.”

Poilievre faulted Trudeau for not securing Canada’s borders and not stopping “tons and tons of fentanyl from traveling back and forth.” He said the Trudeau government has failed to arrest the terrorists or “shut down the organized crime,”