After Prince Edward Island Liberal stalwart and Senator Percy Downe started a public conversation last week suggesting that the party may want to elect a new leader going into the next election due to tanking polling numbers, political insiders are predicting that more senior Liberals and pundits will be speaking up about it in the coming weeks and months.
“The current polling is going to make these voices louder,” said a former senior Liberal in a not-for- attribution based interview with The Hill Times, last week. “Things have to change quickly.”
