Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears at a Liberal Party fundraiser in Markham, Ont. on Friday, June 28, 2024.
The email from national caucus chair Brenda Shanahan rejecting calls for an in-person Liberal caucus meeting landed in MP's inboxes around 5 p.m. on the fourth of July. In the words of one Liberal MP, it went over "like a fart in church."Posted: Jul 06, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago
Shanahan urged MPs discussing next steps after the byelection loss to respect caucus confidentiality and not leak to the media.Those in Liberal circles arguing against holding a full in-person caucus meeting say it would create a media spectacle. MPs would gather to vent, express frustration and point fingers. It would all get leaked to journalists and fuel a negative news cycle the Liberals are desperate to avoid.
They argue a substantial number of Liberal MPs — if not a clear majority — still support Justin Trudeau's leadership and are content to ride this out.Even some of the prime minister's harshest internal critics agree with that assessment. But they point to another substantial portion of the caucus — those in the middle who aren't looking for Trudeau to resign but are looking for some kind of demonstrable change.
But there's no consensus in caucus on what needs to change — only on the need for Trudeau to settle on one or more of those three options if he's sincere in his desire to lead the party into a fourth election. They said they're also frustrated by an initial internal communications effort that seemed to focus more on downplaying the loss than attacking the problems that led to it.
That's not the message MPs and political staff expected or wanted to hear after a byelection loss that brought to life the numbers they all had been seeing during a year of tough polls.
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