As Trudeau confronts an anxious caucus, some Liberals say he needs to act swiftly
The email from national caucus chair Brenda Shanahan rejecting calls for an early in-person Liberal caucus meeting landed in MP’s inboxes around 5 p.m. on the fourth of July.
Citing “scheduling logistics,” Shanahan officially dismissed public demands from Liberal MPs for an urgent gathering to discuss the fallout from the byelection loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s.
In the words of one Liberal MP, it went over “like a fart in church.”
“If you can’t even meet with your own caucus … how can you convince a country?” the MP said.
