Reuters – Before meeting party MPs on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to be increasingly unpopular within his caucus.
In the light of a parliament demonstration on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is notably witnessing rising discontent in his party MPs, as stated by the Hindustan Times.
Trudeau is also likely to speak to his caucus for the first time since several of his MPs have gone on record stating privately and publicly that he is not the right man to lead the party into the next election.
Alexandra Mendes, Liberal Party MP, said in her Monday briefing that her followers feel this way, reflecting the opinion that the Prime Minister has to be replaced.
“I didn’t hear it from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people. He’s no longer the right leader,” Mendes said as per the Hindustan Times, which released French-language network Radio-Canada’s interview with her in English while selectively translating in Hindi for the quote, even though she also complimented Trudeau’s PM term.
Earlier, New Brunswick MP Wayne Long had also demanded his resignation before the next federal election that is expected in October next year.
Before that, in 2019, two Punjabi-origin Canadian parliamentarians of Indo-Canadian origin—George Chahal from Alberta and Chandra Arya from Ontario—who are also part of Trudeau’s Liberal party—have also raised alarm over the deterioration of the party’s secular character but have not severed their ties with Trudeau.
Their concerns can be blamed on the new polls that showed that the Liberals had dipped as low as 15 to 20 points behind the Conservatives, who look set to get a majority in the next election.
