Members of the staff of the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, will meet on Monday, ahead of a possible announcement on his political future.
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TVA News confirmed that the Prime Minister and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, will meet with all political staff in the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday.
“From the moment Mr. Trudeau meets his closest collaborators […] he should tell his [équipe politique] that he sees no way for him to survive the current storm. That means that everything will start to unravel,” explains political analyst Emmanuelle Latraverse to Quebec MorningMonday.
“You put the rock or the ball at the top of the hill and from that moment on, things happen,” she illustrates.
After this meeting with members of cabinet staff, it is “impossible” for Justin Trudeau to inform the public of his intentions concerning his political future, by the end of Monday, according to Emmanuelle Latraverse.
According to several media, including Globe and Mail and the Toronto Starsources within the Liberal party expect Mr. Trudeau to step down ahead of a national meeting of his party scheduled for Wednesday.
The announcement could be made in the next 24 hours, these sources told the two newspapers in articles published on Sunday.
-Such an announcement would come a few months before the next legislative elections which must be held by the end of October.
Remember that the latter is facing internal discontent from his caucus, which has notably intensified since the surprise departure of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in mid-December.
But it is unclear whether Mr. Trudeau, 53, will remain his party’s interim leader or immediately leave that post if he resigns as Canada’s prime minister.
So far Justin Trudeau, who had announced his intention to run again, is credited in the polls with more than 20 points behind his conservative rival, Pierre Poilievre.
According to the latest Angus Reid poll, released last Tuesday, voting intentions for the Liberal Party of Canada (PLC) plunged to 16%, the political party’s lowest result since 2014.
A minority in Parliament, he is weakened by the withdrawal of his left-wing ally and the growing discontent within his own party.
Mr. Trudeau’s popularity has waned in recent months as his government narrowly survived a series of votes of no confidence and his critics called for his resignation.
See Emmanuelle Latraverse’s full analysis, above.
