Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding a press conference about his future on Jan. 6.
Calls for Trudeau’s resignation have escalated after the high-profile resignation of Chrystia Freeland as deputy prime minister and minister of finance on Dec. 16.
The public calls from within caucus for Trudeau’s ouster first began to surface over the summer after the Liberals lost the longtime stronghold of Toronto-St.Paul’s to the Conservatives in a byelection, as support in the polls for the Liberals had been waning for months.
The byelection defeats in previously Liberal-held seats were repeated in Montreal’s LaSalle-Émard-Verdun riding in September, where the Bloc Québécois won, and in B.C.’s Cloverdale-Langley City byelection in December, where the Conservatives won in a landslide….