Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

The majority of Ontario’s Liberal MPs have come to the consensus that the prime minister needs to go.

Saturday morning, 51 of the province’s 75 Liberal MPs met virtually on a zoom call to discuss the past week’s developments — from Chrystia Freeland’s bombshell resignation as finance minister to the growing calls for Justin Trudeau to resign.

During the hour-long meeting, no member of Parliament — including cabinet ministers — pleaded the case on camera for the prime minister to fight the next election as Liberal leader, according to seven sources on the call, who spoke to the Star on condition of anonymity.

How soon is he gone? That is the Question.

A few Canadian prime ministers were intensely disliked, even loathed by the time they left office.

That would include Sir John A. Macdonald and Pierre Trudeau. And, for a time, Stephen Harper — although those ‘MISS ME YET’ memes sure started to pop up fast when Canadians realized the good old days were rapidly slipping away.

Trudeau Jr. had come along to say: “Hold my Shirley Temple.” (Or do immature dancing Swifties drink beer? Maybe Bud Light.)

When Premier Danielle Smith looks at Ottawa this time, as the federal Liberals desperately try to regroup, she sees “somebody who is trying to shuffle their way out of chaos.”

That somebody is the embattled and wildly unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“You can’t do that. The only way you can solve this kind of chaos is to get a mandate. It is to have an election.”

We asked 152 Liberal MPs whether Justin Trudeau should resign. Here’s what we heard back

Will Justin Trudeau resign?

It’s the question on many minds after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s right-hand minister, delivered a stunning blow to the unpopular Liberal government with a surprise resignation this week that shocked markets, drew the attention of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, and turned debate over the prime minister’s future into the biggest story in the country.

The party’s over, Justin – time to go home

Justin Trudeau is that guy at the Christmas party who just won’t let it end. The music has stopped, the lights are coming on, the booze is gone, and the host couple is yawning, dropping hints that it’s time to leave.

On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future was thrown in doubt. Five days later the Liberal Party is itself in peril. A week really is a long time in politics.

“I’m not thinking about elections,” Rachel Bendayan, the new minister of official languages, said outside Rideau Hall following Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle Friday.

Well, she had better think about it because one is coming.

Most Canadians now want early election as Trudeau support drops again: poll

At about 8:45 on Monday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived on Parliament Hill, his motorcade gliding to a stop in front of the ornate set of wooden doors used almost exclusively by him.

But instead of immediately getting out, Mr. Trudeau stayed in the back seat of the black SUV, on the phone.

On the other end of the line: his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.

It was one of the worst weeks of his political career, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was ringing in the season.

At the Liberal Party’s annual holiday gathering, Trudeau put on his party face, despite being blindsided the day before by the snap resignation of one of his most trusted allies, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, just hours before she was due to deliver an economic statement in Parliament.

But even as some members of his own party were calling on him to leave, the prime minister struck a resolute, defiant tone as he addressed the party faithful in his dark blue suit and tie.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is under intense pressure to step down after the abrupt and acrimonious resignation of a key deputy on Monday highlighted his deep unpopularity after nearly a decade in power.

On Friday, as Mr. Trudeau tried to save his leadership by rearranging his cabinet, another prominent political ally turned on him, calling him a failed leader and vowing to bring down his government.

Have you got a couple of hours?

Justin Trudeau has carried out a major reshuffle of his cabinet, changing a third of his senior team – even as a series of blows seemed to guarantee the end of his term as prime minister and a spring election for Canada.

The move on Friday came at the end of a disastrous week that saw the shock resignation of his deputy, calls for his resignation from within his own party and public mockery from Donald Trump.

Moments before the reshuffle was announced there was one last setback, as the New Democratic party, which had been helping keep Trudeau in office, announced it was withdrawing support – essentially writing the death certificate for his government.

In recent days several pundits have described Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s current political situation as “the worst” he has ever faced. That’s entirely correct. People are rightly baffled by Trudeau’s refusal to step down.

One of the most momentous weeks of Justin Trudeau’s political career came to a close on Friday with arguably his least momentous cabinet shuffle.

This is not to take away from the personal significance of the moment for any of the new cabinet members, such as Public Safety Minister Dalton McGuinty or Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith, who probably expected to leave this Parliament as backbenchers.

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Fife "Will (Trudeau) actually step down, I think he will. If he doesn't, it will just be more bleeding out. It will get worse"

"So everybody who's talked to him has come away with a different version of how the discussions that they had with him went"

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