By Quinn Patrick, True North Wire
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership has been hit with another blow after a number of MPs spent the last 10 days quietly organizing their plans to call for his resignation next week.
Multiple sources have told CTV News that the plan has been in the works for over a week behind closed doors, which is expected to be brought to Trudeau personally at the next caucus meeting on Wednesday.
This comes in the wake of Liberal backbencher Sean Casey being the first MP to publicly call for Trudeau to resign as an internal petition demanding he step down circulates among MPs.
The Charlottetown MP told CBC News in an interview that Trudeau’s leadership is a prominent problem for many voters in his riding.
“The message that I’ve been getting loud and clear — and more and more strongly as time goes by — is that it is time for [Trudeau] to go. And I agree,” said Casey on Tuesday. “People have had enough.They’ve tuned him out and they want him to go.”
Casey’s comments make him the first MP to publicly call for Trudeau to step down, however, multiple sources told the media that the sentiment has reached the Liberal cabinet behind closed doors.
Following two major byelection losses this year, first in Toronto-St. Paul’s and then LaSalle––Émard—Verdun in Montreal, many MPs feel Trudeau is to blame.