MARIEKE WALSH
Justin Trudeau rose to power promising to unite the country under his leadership after growing public mistrust of the sitting government. He leaves office nine years later with an even angrier public and the majority of Canadians – including his own party – increasingly united against him.
Despite plummeting polling, a spate of by-election losses and the exit of a quarter of his front bench, he had been adamant that he was still the one best placed to lead the Liberals into the next election. Now, with just months before the campaign, he has left his party little time to regroup.
Still, for many Liberals, this was the preferred option to what a growing number believed was a near-certain massive defeat had Mr. Trudeau stayed at the helm. Neither the Liberal Party’s polling numbers nor the Prime Minister’s personal popularity ever recovered from his decision to call a snap election in 2021 – two years early and in the midst of a global pandemic. But the Liberal government’s standing came under the greatest pressure as inflation spiked and Mr. Trudeau was accused of ignoring the resulting cost-of-living crisis.
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