Quebec Liberal MP Says Her Constituents Want Trudeau to Step Down.

Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès says “dozens and dozens” of her constituents want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign as party leader.

“My constituents do not see Mr. Trudeau as the person who should lead the party into the next election, and that’s the message that I carry,” Mendès, a Quebec MP, said in a Sept. 9 interview with Radio-Canada.

“I didn’t hear it from two, three people. I heard it from dozens and dozens of people.”

Mendès said that she herself doesn’t want Trudeau to step down.

“If I want to finally meet the expectations of my voters in the slightest, yes, there would have to be a change of leader, but that is not my personal wish,” she said.

The MP for Brossard—La Prairie said many of her Liberal colleagues are hearing the same comments as her.

The Liberals have been trailing in the polls for the past few months, with the Tories gaining a large lead over them. Earlier this year in a surprise development the Liberals lost the byelection in the Toronto—St. Paul’s riding, which had been a Liberal stronghold for three decades.

Another Liberal MP, Wayne Long, has been publicly asking for Trudeau to step down. In a June email that became public, Long wrote to caucus members that the party needed a “new leadership and a new direction.” Likewise, some former high-profile Liberal MPs, such as former cabinet minister Catherine McKenna, have expressed agreement with the need for a new leader.

However, many senior Liberal MPs have said they want Trudeau to stay on as leader.

“As I have said publicly many times, Prime Minister Trudeau has my full support,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said in June.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has downplayed calls for Trudeau to step down, saying  byelection results are different than general elections and that the party is focused on the path ahead.

Trudeau himself has said he will be staying on as leader, but that the Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection loss was an opportunity for reflection and that the Liberals have more work to do.

“We’re going to go into this next election, putting a very clear choice for Canadians,” Trudeau said in August.

Credit: The Epoch Times