Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a Laurier Club Holiday Party event in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
At a virtual meeting of the Ontario Liberal caucus on Saturday morning, more than 50 Liberal MPs came to a consensus that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to step down as party leader, multiple sources told CBC News.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shown speaking during a Laurier Club holiday event in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, the same day Chrystia Freeland, his finance minister and deputy prime minister, resigned from cabinet.
One MP who spoke to CBC News said no formal mechanism exists within the Ontario caucus to force a chair to deliver such a message to Trudeau but that members trust Coteau to listen to their wishes. Hours before she was supposed to deliver the 2024 fall economic statement on Monday, Freeland posted her resignation letter on social media. She wrote that she and the prime minister had been at odds for weeks and warmed him against "costly political gimmicks" that would hurt the country and Canadians' confidence in the Liberals amid a potential tariff war with the United States.
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