Chantal Hébert: Justin Trudeau’s MPs are more nervous than ever about the Liberal party
MONTREAL—On Monday, Justin Trudeau’s government will enter a make-or-break parliamentary season. Given the average life of past minority governments, this could well be the last full year of the prime minister’s third term. More than a few Liberals fear it could also be the closing chapter of their party’s tenure in power.
The NAFTA renegotiation and the pandemic put the spotlight on the government’s management of two different but equally existential threats at the expense of the day-to-day missteps that inevitably occur under any government. On this front, some of the most pointed criticism of the Liberal fiscal course comes from inside the tent.
The blue Liberals — as the more fiscally conservative constituency within the Liberal party is known — have long been fretting about a decline in their influence under Trudeau. They are becoming more vocal at a sensitive time in the life of the minority government.
For their part, Trudeau’s rural MPs along with the government’s Indigenous allies are still wondering how it managed to derail its latest gun control legislation by casting its net so wide as to trigger a hunters’ revolt. At the same time, the heat is increasingly on Trudeau’s Quebec MPs over the apparent incapacity of the government to plug the loophole that has seen tens of thousands of irregular refugees walk their way from the United States to the province.
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