Justin Trudeau rose to power promising to unite the country under his leadership after growing public mistrust of the sitting government. He leaves office nine years later with an even angrier public and the majority of Canadians – including his own party – increasingly united against him.
Despite plummeting polling, a spate of by-election losses and the exit of a quarter of his front bench, he had been adamant that he was still the one best placed to lead the Liberals into the next election. Now, with just months before the next federal election, he has left his party little time to regroup.
