What's next for Justin Trudeau now that some of his own MPs want him gone?
CBC
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces an acute crisis as a growing number of his own MPs demand that he resign and accuse him of mismanaging his relationship with Chrystia Freeland, once his most trusted lieutenant.
Through it all, he still has the job of governing the country — which is not getting any easier.
Eight cabinet ministers have either retired or resigned in recent months. They've left gaps on Trudeau's front bench as the country grapples with a series of crises, most notably U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose economic ruin on Canada through punishing tariffs on exports.
Trudeau's temporary solution for the staffing woes has been to give Dominic LeBlanc much more responsibility — he's currently serving as minister of finance, public safety and intergovernmental affairs, arguably three of the most challenging cabinet portfolios right now.
Trudeau's former governing partner, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, has said Trudeau must resign.
MP Peter Julian, the NDP House leader, said Monday the party will vote non-confidence in the government if Trudeau stays on as Liberal leader into the new year.
Julian said that if this "Liberal debacle" continues into February or March, the NDP will pull its support for the government once and for all. That means a federal election could come as soon as this spring — a grim prospect for Trudeau, given polls that suggest he's deeply unpopular and the Liberal Party has the support of just 20 per cent of voters.
Trudeau has been tight-lipped in public about a challenging week for himself and his government.
He hasn't spoken to the press and he cancelled a series of year-end interviews with media outlets, including CBC News, that were scheduled to take place Wednesday.
At two Liberal Christmas parties this week, one for top donors on Monday and another for political staffers on Tuesday, he made veiled references to the Freeland fracas and the internal movement to oust him.
"Like most families, sometimes we have fights during the holidays. But like most families, we find our way through it," he said Tuesday.
What started out as a secret movement to oust Trudeau in October has spilled out into the open, and a growing number of Liberal MPs seem increasingly comfortable with calling for him to resign.
A movement to covertly gather signatures from disaffected MPs for a letter calling on him to resign has exploded into a more concerted campaign to pressure him out of the job.
Those wayward Liberal MPs have been speaking openly to reporters on Parliament Hill and they have gone on political shows like CBC's Power & Politics to press for Trudeau to go.
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