Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister pending the selection of a new leader,
Trudeau also said he asked Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to prorogue Parliament until March 24, and she granted the request.
His decision will set off a competitive leadership race to replace him and find a contender to take on the Liberals' key rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, in the next federal election.
Freeland, new Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney are seen by political observers as candidates to replace him.
Members of Trudeau’s cabinet who are frequently mentioned in discussions about the party leadership include Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly; Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne; and Anita Anand, the minister in charge of transportation and internal trade.
I think the best that can be hoped for is holding the Conservatives to a minority government. So the Liberals should focus on getting as much as they can from Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Champagne might be the best one to do that.
If they can hold the Tories to a minority government then they'll happily be toasting Champagne, all right. As it is, it seems that the race is to see who can possibly lose fewer seats than Trudeau would and keep the Liberals, not BQ or NDP, as the official opposition.
Though there's little chance that NDP supplants the Liberals in that position as seemed possible for a time in the early 2010s. Jagmeet Singh ain't Jack Layton, to put it mildly.
Singh deserves more credit than he gets for the nuts and bolts governing aspect; he extracted real, tangible commitments and policies for his confidence agreements since 2019. Layton was always quite good at this too.
As an electoral/comms piece though he’s part and parcel with the identity crisis the NDP has had since Layton’s sudden and untimely death at the moment of his grandest triumph and certainly since Mulcair got caught in Justinmania’s shadow ten years ago when he otherwise could credibly have led the NDP into government
Mulcair blew it on his own. And so did the NDP, by focusing on Quebec and nominating someone who was essentially a Liberal. A lot of their 2011 voters decided to go with the real thing.
Anand and LeBlanc (and Marc Miller) are way too much of Trudeau loyalists to be the right fits. Freeland holding almost every position in his Cabinet the last decade is likely to kneecap her quite a bit
Either Joly or Champagne would have good profiles. Carney, I’m skeptical. Sean Fraser could have been a choice had he not taken the Immigration portfolio. Mark Holland has always had potential and isn’t an insider but his seat is probably long gone
I agree though that the game is to reduce the losses in the Maritimes and Quebec and hope that Polly is just a hair too extreme for 205/Lower Mainland suburbanites. But I’ll be shocked if LPC gets more than 25 seats
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister pending the selection of a new leader,
Trudeau also said he asked Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to prorogue Parliament until March 24, and she granted the request.
His decision will set off a competitive leadership race to replace him and find a contender to take on the Liberals' key rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, in the next federal election.
Possible replacements:
Freeland, new Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney are seen by political observers as candidates to replace him.
Members of Trudeau’s cabinet who are frequently mentioned in discussions about the party leadership include Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly; Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne; and Anita Anand, the minister in charge of transportation and internal trade.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-trudeau-likely-resign-week-023346629.html
I think the best that can be hoped for is holding the Conservatives to a minority government. So the Liberals should focus on getting as much as they can from Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Champagne might be the best one to do that.
If they can hold the Tories to a minority government then they'll happily be toasting Champagne, all right. As it is, it seems that the race is to see who can possibly lose fewer seats than Trudeau would and keep the Liberals, not BQ or NDP, as the official opposition.
Though there's little chance that NDP supplants the Liberals in that position as seemed possible for a time in the early 2010s. Jagmeet Singh ain't Jack Layton, to put it mildly.
Singh deserves more credit than he gets for the nuts and bolts governing aspect; he extracted real, tangible commitments and policies for his confidence agreements since 2019. Layton was always quite good at this too.
As an electoral/comms piece though he’s part and parcel with the identity crisis the NDP has had since Layton’s sudden and untimely death at the moment of his grandest triumph and certainly since Mulcair got caught in Justinmania’s shadow ten years ago when he otherwise could credibly have led the NDP into government
Mulcair blew it on his own. And so did the NDP, by focusing on Quebec and nominating someone who was essentially a Liberal. A lot of their 2011 voters decided to go with the real thing.
With how 2011 shook out in QC, though, I don’t know how they couldn’t have made that province the foundation of their future plans
Anand and LeBlanc (and Marc Miller) are way too much of Trudeau loyalists to be the right fits. Freeland holding almost every position in his Cabinet the last decade is likely to kneecap her quite a bit
Either Joly or Champagne would have good profiles. Carney, I’m skeptical. Sean Fraser could have been a choice had he not taken the Immigration portfolio. Mark Holland has always had potential and isn’t an insider but his seat is probably long gone
I agree though that the game is to reduce the losses in the Maritimes and Quebec and hope that Polly is just a hair too extreme for 205/Lower Mainland suburbanites. But I’ll be shocked if LPC gets more than 25 seats