Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

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.

OTTAWA—The drama surrounding Justin Trudeau’s leadership clouded another day on Parliament Hill, as dissenting Liberal MPs who want him to resign say they’re disappointed the prime minister is trumpeting his intention to stay, while others suggested they don’t believe he has yet made a final decision.

More than six Liberal sources have told the Star that Trudeau told his caucus he will remain as leader after he listened to roughly 20 of his MPs tell him behind closed doors on Wednesday that he should resign or at least reconsider whether his continued leadership is best for the party.

After a tense three-and-a-half hour caucus meeting Wednesday, discussing whether or not they should be fighting Trudeau’s leadership due to his ever-decreasing popularity, Liberal MPs emerged declaring the fight was, indeed, needed — against Pierre Poilievre.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed he plans to stay put as Liberal leader past the deadline of next Monday given to him by around two dozen of own his caucus members, asking him to heed their call to step aside.

Trudeau was provided that date in a letter read aloud to him during Wednesday’s closed-door caucus meeting, which sources described as an airing of long-simmering grievances about the party’s troubles, leading to 30 Liberal members of Parliament calling on Trudeau to step down.

When Justin Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on April 14, 2013, he took the helm of a caucus of 35 MPs — the smallest contingent in the party’s history. Twenty-four of those MPs had endorsed him during the leadership campaign.

Some 4,210 days later, the Liberal caucus gathered for its usual Wednesday morning meeting. There, the prime minister was told that 24 MPs believe it’s time for him to step aside as leader.

Two dozen MPs would have accounted for fully two-thirds of the Liberal caucus in 2013. That they now account for just a sixth of the current caucus is a testament to the success the party has enjoyed under Trudeau’s leadership over the last 11 years.

CBC urges the LPC to unite or something …

Is the Liberal rebellion over? What was the outcome? A lot of the people who were in the caucus room don’t really know.

Will Liberal MPs have another internal conversation about whether Justin Trudeau should step down? “Oh, I would think there’s a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth,” Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski said just outside Parliament.

Justin’s vanity demands he prove his naysayers wrong and win the next election and to hell with all of Canada.

One Liberal MP described the meeting as ‘the first time we’ve had a caucus meeting where people actually spoke their mind.’

Two-term B.C. Liberal MP Patrick Weiler read out a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the party’s national caucus meeting on Oct. 23, telling the full Liberal caucus that 24 MPs have signed the document calling for the leader’s resignation by Oct. 28, according to Liberal sources.

Weiler (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, B.C.), who was unavailable for an interview by deadline, was the first speaker at the highly anticipated Oct. 23 Liberal national caucus meeting. The letter was later handed over to Trudeau (Papineau, Que.). The document contained only the text of the letter, but not the signatures of the 24 dissident MPs.