More than 50 Liberal Party members of parliament from Ontario came to a “consensus” during a conference call that Justin Trudeau must step down as prime minister, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's week started with a crisis his opponents likened to a “gong show at the bottom of a dumpster fire, wrapped up in a cluster.” Canada's three-term prime minister managed to make it to Friday when he announced a Cabinet shakeup triggered in part by the bombshell exit of Chrystia Freeland,
In 2017, Mr. Trudeau came under pressure to stand up to Donald J. Trump, the newly elected U.S. president. As Mr. Trump restricted immigration, Mr. Trudeau restated Canada’s openness to asylum seekers, proclaiming, “ Diversity is our strength .”
Canada’s prime minister gained global renown 10 years ago for his unabashedly progressive politics. But at home, voters turned sour on him long ago.
Calls are growing from within the Liberal caucus for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down as party leader — and some have pegged Chrystia Freeland as their choice to replace him.Twenty-one Liberal MPs have publicly urged Trudeau to resign — many of them within the last week — after Freeland shocked Canadians on Monday by resigning as deputy prime minister and finance minister hours before she was supposed to table the government's fall economic statement.
Trudeau’s government has been in turmoil since Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned on Dec. 16, saying she and the prime minister were at odds over the direction of the government. Then NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said on Friday that his 25 members will join two other opposition parties in voting to bring down the government early next year.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his Cabinet on Friday. The prime minister’s office says Trudeau will participate in the swearing-in ceremony and chair a meeting with his new Cabinet later Friday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau soared to victory in 2015 on the promise of change and “sunny ways” for the country.
The Canadian prime minister was once a poster boy for liberalism but he now faces the latest in a series of crises that threaten his future
Trudeau's leadership is in crisis after the exit of his finance minister, who warned of an impending "tariff war" with the U.S.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, once a political star, is fighting for his job amid calls to step down. Donald Trump is adding to his troubles.