Declining popularity and mounting election losses have snowballed into a major political crisis for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with lawmakers from his own party now going all-out against him. Now, a second Liberal Party MP has gone public with a call for PM Trudeau to tender his resignation and make way for new leadership.
Sean Casey, the Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, has stressed he backs an overwhelming call by his constituents for Trudeau to go.
“My job has always been to project the voice of the people I represent in Ottawa, to be Charlottetown’s representative in Ottawa, and not the reverse. And the message that I’ve been getting loud and clear and more and more strongly as time goes by is that it’s time for him to go. And I agree,” the MP said at CBC’s Power and Politics show.
This came after New Brunswick MP Wayne Long had publicly asked Trudeau to hang up his boots. A group of Liberal lawmakers is concerned over the dismal by-polls results and the lack of party readiness for the next campaign, with Canadians expected to go to the polls at the latest in October 2025.
Montreal MP Anthony Housefather has meanwhile called for a consensus in the party.
“I support whoever is leader in my party at all times,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a robust caucus discussion about who the best person to lead us in the next election is, and that discussion should happen in caucus. It shouldn’t happen in the media.”
Earlier this week, CBC News reported that more than a dozen Liberal Party MPs have signed a document, calling for a ‘change’. The report said that “at least” 20 MPs have signed the letter, without identifying the ruling party lawmakers.
Discontent against Trudeau’s leadership is on the rise in the Liberal Party after the party faced by-election losses in Montreal and Toronto.
Polls in the LaSalle-Emard-Verdun district of Montreal were conducted by Bloc Quebecois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauve, who received 28 per cent of the votes compared to 27.2 per cent cast for Liberal Party candidate Laura Palestini.
