It hasn’t been a good week for Justin Trudeau. It started Monday with the surprise resignation of his Finance Minister just as she was supposed to roll out the government’s next budget. Since then there have been a series of calls for his resignation, including from Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP.
It’s one thing when members of rival parties are calling for your ouster. It’s something else when members of your own party are doing the same.
As rising numbers of Liberal lawmakers called Tuesday for Trudeau to resign, the country’s minister of natural resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, said “we all need to give him a little time to reflect.”…
“My guess is that if another minister or two goes, he’s toast, he will be forced to resign,” said Canadian historian Robert Bothwell.
But while Trudeau is reflecting, about a third of his own party is ready…
