>You said Trudeau was unpopular for years and yet only now he's leaving.
There's unpopular and then there's unpopular.
His approval rating has dropped off a cliff over the past year. His cabinet ministers have been resigning and/or openly criticizing him / asking for him to step down to save their own political careers.
This article is from last September - 4 months ago.
>> Darrell Bricker, a political scientist and pollster with Ipsos, compared the current moment in Canadian politics to this summer’s historic defeat of the UK Tories, who lost 251 seats in British parliament.
>>“It’s basically over,” said Mr Bricker of Trudeau’s government in an interview with the BBC.
>>“All that is happening is sands sliding out of the sand dial, and we’re working our way towards an inevitable conclusion.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrdrnxp74wo
And then this article is from October:
>>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada faced the stiffest challenge to his leadership from fellow elected Liberal Party members on Wednesday during a closed-door meeting where he was urged to resign to avoid torpedoing the party’s chances in the next election.
>>For more than a year, the Liberals under Mr. Trudeau have trailed the Conservative Party by double digits in polls, suggesting that the Liberal Party could face a crushing defeat in the next election, which must be held by next October.
>>Panic within the party intensified after the Liberals recently lost two special parliamentary elections in districts that had been considered their strongholds.
>>The growing dissatisfaction played out on Wednesday, when most of the 153 Liberal members of Parliament gathered in Ottawa for a scheduled caucus meeting.
>>While caucus proceedings are typically secret, Mr. Trudeau, according to Canadian news media citing unnamed sources, was presented with a letter signed by about two dozen caucus members calling on him to step down.
>>The letter has been circulating for several days, but has been a closely held secret.
>>About 20 Liberal members criticized Mr. Trudeau’s leadership after the letter was read aloud during the three-hour-and-17-minute meeting, according to Canadian news outlets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/world/canada/trudeau-vote...
Why do you insist that having a 23% approval rating and half of your party begging you to resign isn't a good enough reason?
Seriously, if you're not familiar with the internal politics of another country, why would you make up conspiracies about them?
