A growing number of Liberal MPs are calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, highlighting a deepening rift within the party.
Just before Christmas, Kody Blois, chair of the national Liberal rural caucus and Nova Scotia Liberal caucus, signed a letter asking the Prime Minister to step down on behalf of his East Coast colleagues. The holidays are often a time of reflection. And even as everyone is still shaking off their cheese-induced torpor, the internal calls for Mr. Trudeau to step down are growing within the Liberal Quebec caucus, though no one involved seems willing to sign their name to their convictions.
This follows a meeting of the Ontario caucus just before Christmas, at which more than 50 MPs expressed similar sentiments. It is that last bit – the skittishness of the Prime Minister’s detractors – that’s been the most telling element of the slow-motion knife fight the Liberals have been having. In late October, two dozen caucus members signed a letter calling on Mr. Trudeau to resign, and everything seemed about to boil over at the weekly caucus meeting. One MP read the letter aloud to the Prime Minister, but both ends of this interaction – the sidling MPs and the PM who stared them down and then went on with his day – point to a hefty blind spot that exists both in the Liberal Party right now and inside the heads of Mr. Trudeau and his closest confidants. In 2013, when he took over as leader, the party had basically been left for dead, but he and a handful of advisers raised it back to life and refashioned it into a majority juggernaut. They did all of this as the Liberal old guard, and in many ways, they were successful. They brought along an entire generation of new Liberal politicians with them. But now they’re on the far side of nearly a decade of governing, and what was once the plucky confidence to follow their own instincts has calcified into a total inability to hear dissenting voices, as though anyone who doesn’t agree speaks at a frequency undetectable by the ears of this PMO. At the same time, virtually everyone in the Liberal firmament has lived out their entire political careers under Mr. Trudeau’s leadership
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