Following the resignation of Justin Trudeau, known globally for his liberal policies, there have been questions about whether we are seeing the end of ‘woke’ politics.

Mr Trudeau resigned following a disagreement within his party which contributed to his already waning popularity.

As a result, the opposition Conservative Party now leads in opinion poll.

While Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party was initially popular when he took power nearly a decade ago, policies such as the government's welcoming of immigrants and an expensive carbon tax have proved unpopular in recent years.

Meanwhile, a cost-of-living crisis has only exacerbated Canada’s issues.

HP9C3B Justin Trudeau - Treffen der dt. Bundeskanzlerin mit dem kanadischen Premierminister, Bundeskanzleramt, 17. Februar 2017, Berlin.

On Newstalk Breakfast, presenter Shane Coleman said ‘good riddance’ to Mr Trudeau.

“My two least favourite ‘normal’ politicians – I'm not putting them in the category of Putin or Trump or Orbán, people like that – but in terms of normal, reasonable politics, my two least favourite politicians of recent times have been Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Arden,” he said.

“Performative, touchy-feely, ‘I feel your pain even if you didn’t know you had pain’ type politics.

“It’s not so much their policy platforms; this isn’t about them kind of following on ‘woke’ issues or whatever – it’s performative politics.

“It’s the lack of substance - I just didn’t find it authentic, I never bought into it.”

Virtue signaling

Shane said he would rather see politicians focus on more tangible current issues.

“I want a politician who will focus on housing, not on some virtue signaling measure to put housing into the Constitution - that will do nothing to solve the problem,” he said.

“The same with fixing our water infrastructure – I'm not interested in people who are saying ‘I want to put public ownership in the Constitution’ - how are you going to fix the water supply?"

Fellow presenter Ciara Kelly agreed, but said that all politicians are performative to an extent.

“I think that some of what is going on there is the death of ‘woke’ policy, as well as maybe performative,” she said.

“Personally, my view is that they’re all fairly performative.”

Shane said he hoped Mr Trudeau’s resignation marked the global demise of this stye of politics.

Featured image: Split image showing Shane Coleman in the Newstalk studio (L) and Justin Trudeau (R).