Like a coffee at a gas station Tim Hortons, the career of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa is burnt. After nearly a decade at the helm of the Great White North, Trudeaumania 2.0 could be fading to black, with a resignation letter from the country’s top job inching closer to being signed. How did Canada’s Liberal Party leader sit on the brink of a political meltdown? It was a morning that will forever be ensconced in modern Canadian history.
A Morning in Justin Trudeau Land
On the second-to-last day of the House of Commons sitting before the holiday break, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was set to deliver the long-awaited 260-page fall economic statement. In a move that sent shockwaves throughout Parliament Hill, Freeland resigned from the top economic post after she said that Trudeau asked her to take on…
