Will Canadian PM Trudeau Resign Amid Tensions with United States?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in office since 2015, but his time leading his party may be coming to an end.

We regularly see videos of people confronting him in public, and his party seems ready to go in a different direction as well.

Now, with tensions rising between the United States and Canada due to Trump’s immigration stance, Trudeau is reportedly considering resignation or prorogation.

Time to Go

Prorogation is the suspension of parliament, which Trudeau is reportedly considering after Chrystia Freeland resigned.

Freeland was serving as the finance minister and deputy prime minister.

Trudeau has made some decisions on the world stage lately that have also caused uproar, including saying that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for war crimes.

He has never really liked Trump, but after Trump was elected, Trudeau made a quick trip to Mar-a-Lago after Trump threatened Canada with tariffs if it did not start doing its part to stop migrants from coming into the United States via Canada.

Trudeau now appears to have lost support among his fellow Liberal Party leaders.

For instance, Montreal's Liberal Party MP Anthony Housefather stated, "Incumbents have a certain shelf life in social media age. I believe the prime minister has passed that shelf life. And I think that for Canadians to have a real choice on the table in terms of things that they will go beyond just saying do they want him to be prime minister or not.

“We need to have a different leader with a different vision for the Liberal Party to be viable in the next election.”

Ontario MP Chad Collins added, "I'm not going to breach confidentiality in terms of what happened in caucus, but I can say we're not united. There's still a number of our members who feel we need a change in leadership. I'm one of those."

Greg Inwood, professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's Department of Politics and Public Administration, believes that Trudeau has surrounded himself with a bunch of yes-men who are merely telling him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear.

When Freeland resigned, she obliterated Trudeau in her resignation letter, including a rebuke against Trudeau for not taking Trump’s tariff threat seriously.

Inwood commented, "The immediate crisis Trudeau is facing has been fueled in part by Trump's imminent arrival as president.

“It seems clear that Freeland and Trudeau have had disagreements over managing the Canada-U.S. relationship going forward. The tariff issue has cast a shadow over almost everything Canadian governments (federal and provincial) were planning for."

Trudeau’s party is already hanging on by a thread, and if they want to stay in power, forcing Trudeau out may be the only real way to hold power.

I will say this... conservatives in Canada are speaking up a lot more, and even the liberals in the country seem to be sick and tired of the direction that Trudeau has taken them.

Honestly, I am not even sure his resignation will be enough to keep the Liberal Party in power after the next election.