As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on holiday break and reportedly reflecting on his future, his former top adviser Gerald Butts said he could soon be stepping down.
Butts, who now works for the think tank Eurasia Group, published an article on Dec. 27 going over the political saga of the last weeks around Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet and the future of the Liberal Party.
“If, as is now widely expected, Mr. Trudeau’s resignation is imminent, the only way forward is a real leadership race,” Butts wrote on his Substack.
Butts argued against the Liberal caucus anointing Freeland as the new leader after she quit in dramatic fashion on Dec. 16, hours before she was scheduled to deliver the Fall Economic Statement….