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.

Chrystia Freeland, minister of finance and deputy prime minister of Canada, speaks at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Oct. 12, 2023, in Marrakesch, Morocco. (Christophe Gateau/dpa/ZUMA Press/TNS) (Christophe Gateau/German Press Agency)