OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all smiles as he walked into a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, where dissidents in his own ranks were prepared to challenge his leadership while his supporters harshly condemned the damaging show of disunity.
At the same time, a grassroots petition describing an “existential crisis” in the Liberal party was demanding an urgent secret ballot vote — both inside the caucus room and at the party’s national executive — on whether Trudeau really should stay on in the face of months of bad polls that place his party well behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.
#BREAKING: The letter signed by 40 of my MP’s (named the Code Red Petition) demanding my resignation, has leaked.
That’s why I’m disbanding the Liberal Party, proroguing Parliament, and suspending the next election indefinitely.
I’m not going anywhere. I am the King of Canada. pic.twitter.com/0YKBeBN0uN
— Justin Trudeau’s Ego (@Trudeaus_Ego) October 23, 2024
