OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A Liberal MP who serves as the assistant deputy speaker of the House of Commons has become the first in the party to publicly call for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, saying directly that he is not the “right leader” for the party.
The call for Trudeau to step down came from Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès, who is from Quebec’s Brossard-St. Lambert riding. In an interview with Radio Canada on Monday, Mendès said directly, “My constituents do not see Mr. Trudeau as the person who should carry the Party into the next election and that’s the message that I carry.”
“I didn’t hear from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people. He is no longer the right leader,” she said.
Mendès said that as she listens to her constituents, which is what “supposedly what we’re meant to do,” then “yes, I have to say we would have to change leadership.”
The Trudeau resignation call comes amid dismal polling numbers for Trudeau as well as losing support from the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) to keep him in power. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh pulled his official support for Trudeau’s Liberals last week.
Late last month, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre called on Singh to pull his support for Trudeau’s Liberals in order for an election to be held.
Recent polls show that the Conservatives under Poilievre would win a majority government in a landslide were an election held today. Singh’s NDP and Trudeau’s Liberals would lose a massive number of seats.
As for Trudeau, his woes continue to mount. LifeSiteNews recently reported how the national elections campaign director for Canada’s federal Liberal Party announced he was stepping down because, according to sources close to the party, he does not think Trudeau can with a fourth consecutive election.