It’s very Ottawa to prebook an attempted political knifing for a Wednesday morning, but also to keep enough of the messiness under wraps so that if the agitators blinked, you could go back to being one big happy family, with bolted-on grins, in the afternoon.
The last week has been filled with reports about a growing swell of frustration among Liberal MPs over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, given the party’s abysmal standing in the polls and in the minds of Canadians. This discontent took the form of a letter – which no one seemed to have seen with their own eyes, let alone signed with their own hand – urging him to step down.
