It’s all anonymous Liberals worried about losing their jobs in the next election given their dismal standing in the polls compared to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives..
Liberal sources told the Star, CBC and other media that so far, 20 to 40 Liberal MPs are willing to put their names on a pledge calling on Trudeau to quit, following confidential meetings within the Liberal caucus, while Trudeau and his advisors were in Laos attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
That’s far less than half the Liberal caucus of 153 MPs, many loyal to Trudeau because he put them in his cabinet.
Having organizers of a potential coup talking to the media about the coup before they’re ready to trigger it, helps the PMO figure out how to kill it.
The Liberals still don’t have a national campaign director after the last one quit, despite the fact an election could come at any time and they’ve done nothing to reboot themselves since their two shock byelection defeats in Toronto and Montreal.
The federal Liberals are so incompetent that if they’re really planning a regicide of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as reported in recent days, they’re doing it in the dumbest way possible. It was the brilliant Florentine diplomat and political strategist Niccolo Machiavelli who advised...
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As Trudeau returns from a trip to Asia, he is likely to hunker down with his faithful entourage to plot strategy while plotting of another kind will be on the minds of the Gang of 20 (the approximate number of Liberal MPs said to have signed a document in support of replacing the prime minister before the next election.)
The Toronto Star first
reported on Friday that “anxious Liberals” were worried about the state of the party under Trudeau. People were saying on the doorstep that “your guy’s gotta go,” while one party source said two dozen sitting MPs were deciding whether to run again at the next election.
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If offence is the best defence, Trudeau is likely to adopt the, “I’m not going anywhere” strategy.
The prime minister’s defensive vanguard was led at the weekend by Trade Minister Mary Ng who expressed her disappointment that overwrought colleagues were overly concerned with overthrowing their leader. It’s not what Canadians want, she said??
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Still, perhaps unwittingly, she uttered the words that have ushered many a political leader to the dustbin of history: “I have full confidence in Justin Trudeau as my leader.”
Expect “full confidence” to be expressed in the most robust terms, with the utmost vigour, and in increasingly strident tones, by Cabinet ministers in the days to come.
The prime minister will demand it. Cabinet ministers will comply. The public will be told. And we will all be none the wiser as to how much support Trudeau has.
Overthrowing leaders is a tricky business. Are the rebels determined enough? Is the leader too willful, too obdurate, too vengeful?
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The Globe and Mail spoke with 15 Liberals, including 10 MPs for this story. All of them denied being part of the latest revolt and many of them noted that rumours of an organized ouster have been circling in the Liberal caucus for months.
The Globe is not naming the sources so they could speak freely without fear of repercussion. Two of the MPs who were named by other sources as key organizers in the latest attempt to remove the Prime Minister said they had no part in the revolt.
With the Prime Minister and his chief of staff away on an international trip last week, sources say some MPs began organizing a new campaign to ask Justin Trudeau to step down
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Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she had full confidence in Trudeau as word began to spread about a growing revolt.
Canada's minister for international trade says she never considered resigning after the federal ethics commissioner found she broke rules by awarding a contract to a friend.
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A growing number of Liberal MPs are banding together to convince Prime Minist
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…Then Sunday morning news in literally the middle of the thanksgiving long weekend. How ‘bout that?
The Liberal Party has named Andrew Bevan as its new national campaign director for the next federal election. The announcement comes as party continues to face lagging polls and as party leader Justin Trudeau is facing new pressure to step aside.
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…&…speaking of Liberal knives coming out…If the latest polls are to be believed, the Conservatives are on course for a 220-plus seat majority. That could leave the Liberals, Canada’s so-called “natural governing party,” in danger of being exiled to the far reaches of the House of Commons chamber as the third party, behind the Bloc Québécois, which doesn’t much care what happens beyond the borders of Quebec.
In such a circumstance, there would be a temptation among many
newly-appointed senators to form the unofficial opposition in residence, acting as a check on unfettered power of a majority government prime minister.
There are concerns in the Conservative caucus — and also among Bloc MPs — that the denizens of the Red Chamber are already auditioning for the role.
A new Conservative majority government is not going to tolerate resistance from an unelected Senate, which many MPs see as aligned with the current government
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