“I didn’t hear it from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people,” says Liberal MP Alexandra Mendes.
The bad news keeps rolling in for Justin Trudeau.
After the end of the Liberal-NDP Pact, brutal polling, and the departure of his national campaign director, Justin Trudeau now faces one of his own MPs admitting that her constituents want him gone.
According to a new report, Liberal MP Alexandra Mendes – who represents the riding of Brossard—Saint-Lambert in Quebec – says her constituents believe “he’s no longer the right leader.”
“Speaking to Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language service, on the sidelines of the Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., Mendes said her constituents are “very adamant the prime minister needs to go.”
She said while she’s personally fine with Trudeau staying on as prime minister, “my constituents do not see Mr. Trudeau as the person who should lead the party into the next election, and that’s the message that I carry.”
“I didn’t hear it from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people,” Mendes said. “He’s no longer the right leader.”
Notably, Mendes sought to pin the blame for Liberal misfortunes on the Prime Minister, rather than the Liberal Party itself:
“Asked if she thinks the party would be better off with Trudeau gone, Mendes said: “Yes, that’s what I would deduct from all the comments that I heard.
“It’s not the Liberal Party per se that is the cause. It’s really the leadership of the prime minister.”
She said it “saddens” her to hear the anti-Trudeau sentiment.
“It saddens me that the prime minister isn’t being given the credit he deserves for the many, many wonderful things he did, or very good transformative things he did for Canada,” she said. “But, on the other hand, if I listen to my constituents, which is supposedly what we’re meant to do, yes, I have to say we would have to change leadership.”
When even Liberal MPs are distancing themselves from the Prime Minister, it’s obvious that it’s time for him to go.
Simply put, Canadians have had enough of the Trudeau era.
Spencer Fernando
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