Trudeau under pressure after Liberals lose another safe seatKyle Duggan
Politico Sept. 17, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face renewed pressure to step aside after his Liberals lost a Montreal stronghold in a special election late Monday night.
It's the second consecutive defeat for Trudeau, who has insisted he has no plans to resign.
Canada’s Liberals have trailed their Conservative Party rivals nationally by a wide margin for the past year. The by-election loss is the latest sign the party could be doomed, so long as Trudeau remains at the helm.
“A loss is another nail in the coffin,” Lori Turnbull, a respected Canadian political analyst and professor at Dalhousie University, told POLITICO ahead of the vote. “It's going to be really hard for them to get around the narrative that the government is basically done.” ...
The Liberals lost a seat in downtown Toronto to the Conservatives in June, dialing up the heat on Trudeau who spent his summer in one-on-one calls with MPs in a bid to reassure his worried caucus. ...
Speculation is ramping up that the sexually ambiguous Justin "Fidelito" Castreau will step down before the US election, as the Economic Times reports:
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