Chrystia Freeland, who today stepped down as finance minister and deputy prime minister, arrives for a national caucus meeting, in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced frustrated MPs at a hastily arranged caucus meeting late Monday following Chrystia Freeland's shocking decision to resign from cabinet just before she was poised to deliver the government's much-anticipated fall economic statement.
About 15 MPs took to the microphone to address Trudeau at that meeting, according to one Liberal MP who was in the room. The best way to stop what he called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's "Make Canada Great Again" agenda is to push Trudeau out, Collins said. LeBlanc, who has been friends with the prime minister since childhood, is one of Trudeau's most trusted lieutenants.
Freeland's resignation is a disastrous development for the government. It throws its economic agenda into a tailspin and leaves a huge gap on Trudeau's front bench at a time when Liberal Party support has collapsed in the polls. Two days later, Trudeau would ask Freeland to leave that post, effectively pushing out the most senior woman in government.
Poilievre said Freeland, who was recruited by Trudeau to run for the Liberals in 2013, "knows him better than anyone and she knows he's out of control." Liberal Ontario MP Francis Drouin said Freeland's resignation means Trudeau himself needs to step down and let someone else take over. Six other sitting Liberal MPs — René Arseneault, Anthony Housefather, Wayne Long, Patrick Weiler, Helena Jaczek and Chad Collins — also said Trudeau must resign.
She signalled that she doesn't think the economic path Canada is on under Trudeau's leadership is a prudent one.
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