News Analysis
Mere moments after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his intention to resign on Jan. 6, the many Liberal MPs who appeared in media interviews—free of caucus restraint to speak their minds for the first time—said they wanted a return to the centre.
How this desired centre is defined remains elusive. And ultimately, the party’s ideological direction will depend on the new leader’s approach.
“We’ve got to reboot. We need to move the party more to the middle, more centrist. We have to look at some of the policies that have certainly driven Canadians away from us,” New Brunswick MP Wayne Long—the first Liberal MP to have called publicly in 2024 for Trudeau to resign—told CTV on Jan. 6. He didn’t elaborate on what those policies are or how he thinks the party could become centrist….