Analysis: Liberals Present a Unified Front in Public as They Pin Hopes on Carney to Improve Their Chances

September 11, 2024 TruthUSA

Besides a Liberal MP publicly saying her constituents want Justin Trudeau gone as leader, there was little to no frustration emerging from the Liberal caucus retreat despite a rough summer, with the party now looking to former central banker Mark Carney to help boost its political fortunes.

The expectation was that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would get an earful as he met with all of his MPs in Nanaimo, B.C., for the first time since the surprise byelection defeat in Toronto in late June.

If grievances were aired, it didn’t leak out of the caucus meeting, as MPs and ministers speaking publicly only mentioned support for the prime minister and party unity.

“What I heard so far is a lot of calls for unity,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Sept. 10 after being asked by reporters whether the meeting was tense.

The only crack in the wall came with Liberal MP and Deputy House Speaker Alexandra Mendès telling CBC News that her constituents have had enough of Trudeau.

Mendès won her Brossard–Saint–Lambert riding on Montreal’s south shore in landslides in the past three elections, but she expressed doubts about the next one, noting that frustrated voters chose the NDP in 2011 amid a country-wide “orange wave.”

All eyes are now on a byelection immediately across the Champlain Bridge linking Mendès’s riding to the riding of Lasalle–Émard–Verdun, where voters will head to the polls on Sept. 16.

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