Pressure to resign. Justin Trudeau is expected to be out soon. |
Like President Joe Biden, Canada's prime minister faced intense backlash for his backing of Israel.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation to Parliment this week.
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At least, Canada will abide to the International Criminal Court's warrant. If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Issac Herzog and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant step foot in Canadian territory, they could be arrested.
Netanyahu is pretty much isolated to Israel and the United States. He is not safe anywhere else from prosecution. The member nations will abide by the rule expect the U.S. which Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump vocally oppose the indictments and threatened sanctions.
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Trudeau, a longtime ally to Biden, Trump and former president Barack Obama is expected to leave after pressure.
There are no signals of Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland of running for prime minister. She quit the Trudeau administration last year after Trudeau tried to demote her. She wanted him to answer to the threats from Trump about tariffs on Canadian exports.
She also stated that Trudeau's sudden rekindling friendship with Trump, a known sexual predator and felon kind of impedes on the values of Canadians.
Trudeau lost support of former Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland. |
Trudeau is increasingly likely to announce he intends to step down, though he has not made a final decision, a source familiar with Trudeau's thinking said on Sunday.
The source spoke to Reuters after the Globe and Mail reported that Trudeau was expected to announce as early as Monday that he would quit as leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office.
The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Trudeau's departure would leave the party without a permanent head at a time when polls show the Liberals will badly lose to the official opposition Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October.
Sources told the Globe and Mail that they did not know definitely when Trudeau would announce his plans to leave but said they expect it would happen before a emergency meeting of Liberal legislators on Wednesday.
An increasing number of Liberal parliamentarians, alarmed by a series of gloomy polls, have publicly urged Trudeau to quit.
The prime minister's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours. The prime minister's regularly published schedule for Monday said he would participate virtually in a cabinet committee meeting on Canada-U.S. relations.
It remains unclear whether Trudeau will leave immediately or stay on as prime minister until a new Liberal leader is selected, the Globe and Mail report added.
CALLS TO RESIGN GROW
Trudeau took over as Liberal leader in 2013 when the party was in deep trouble and had been reduced to third place in the House of Commons for the first time.
If he does resign, it would likely spur fresh calls for a quick election to put in place a stable government able to deal with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump for the next four years.
The prime minister has discussed with Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc whether he would be willing to step in as interim leader and prime minister, one source told the newspaper, adding that this would be unworkable if LeBlanc plans to run for the leadership.
Bad optics. |
Trudeau, 53, had been able to fend off Liberal legislators worried about the polls and the loss of safe seats in two special elections.
But calls for him to step aside have grown since December, when Trudeau tried to demote Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, one of his closest cabinet allies, after she pushed back against his proposals for more spending.
Freeland quit instead and penned a letter accusing Trudeau of "political gimmicks" rather than focusing on what was best for the country.
Trudeau propelled the Liberals to power in 2015 promising "sunny ways" and a progressive agenda that promoted the rights of women and a promise to fight climate change.
But the everyday realities of governing gradually wore him down and like many Western leaders, the need to deal with the effects of the pandemic ate up much of his time.
Although Ottawa spent heavily to protect consumers and businesses, racking up record budget deficits, this provided little protection from public anger as prices soared.
A botched immigration policy led to hundreds of thousands of arrivals, straining an already overheated housing market.
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