Trudeau set to step down as leader, Globe reports
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OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail is reporting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce he is stepping down as Liberal party leader as early as today.
Trudeau has faced mounting calls for his resignation from MPs in his caucus as public opinion polls have continued to put the governing Liberals trailing far behind the Conservatives.
The Globe report says three sources, who weren’t authorized to speak about the matter publicly, did not know a specific timeline but they expected Trudeau would announce his plans before a national caucus meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
The Canadian Press has not independently confirmed the Globe report.
Trudeau’s itinerary says he is set to take part in a cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations today. It’s not clear if Trudeau will stay on as prime minister or if an interim leader would be selected through a Liberal leadership race if he decides to step down.
Last week, Winnipeg South Centre MP Ben Carr became the first Manitoba Liberal MP to publicly call for Trudeau to step down as his party’s leader.
“I do not arrive at this decision easily, nor do I make it happily,” Carr said Friday in a statement first provided to the Free Press.
“I made a commitment to act with the utmost integrity in every action I undertake.… It means to be honest, open and to make decisions with conviction and only after thorough and thoughtful reflection. It is with those principles in mind that today I call for a change in the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.”
Carr said he came to the decision after “daily conversations with constituents, supporters, mentors, friends and colleagues over a prolonged period, out of which has emerged a clear belief that it is time for change.”
“I felt somehow as though I would be betraying my party, leader and colleagues. As time has passed however, and the further I reflected on the conversations … I concluded that it is in fact the opposite which is true,” he said.
“What I have heard consistently from the people I represent, is that they are not feeling alienated by progressive values and policies, but rather by our leadership.”
— The Canadian Press, with Free Press files