‘Vast majority’ of Liberal caucus wants Trudeau to resign, MP says

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says Trudeau has lost the confidence of Canadians and wants to ensure Liberals can offer a different vision in the next election.

A Liberal MP who has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign says the “vast majority” of caucus colleagues he’s spoken to feel the same way.

Trudeau’s leadership has been on shaky ground for months, but it became more unstable Monday after his longtime ally Chrystia Freeland resigned from cabinet, throwing the government into chaos.

A growing number of Liberal MPs have since publicly called on Trudeau to step aside and make way for a new Liberal leader ahead of a likely early election.

One of those MPs is Anthony Housefather, who says there’s “a number of reasons” why he feels Trudeau’s time is up.

“The top one is that Canadians have clearly lost confidence in him, and Canadians want him to go,” Housefather told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block.

“It’s clear they’ve tuned him out, and he is not the best person to deliver the message of our party in the next election.”

An Ipsos poll conducted for Global News and released Friday found nearly three-quarters of Canadians want Trudeau to step down, while support for the Liberals is at a near-historic low of just 20 per cent.

Just over half of Canadians told Ipsos they want an election triggered at the earliest opportunity, before it’s scheduled to occur in October 2025.