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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly expected to resign from his position as early as Monday, according to Canadian media.
The news was first reported by the Globe and Mail on Sunday night, citing three sources. The outlet said that it is unclear when exactly the Liberal Party leader will step down, but a resignation is expected to come before a national caucus meeting on Wednesday.
The news comes as Trudeau's popularity continues to dwindle in Canada, which has a national election planned for Oct. 20 of this year. The country continues to suffer from a housing crisis, a declining per-capita GDP and high inflation, among other issues.
According to Canadian pollster Angus Reid, Trudeau has a disapproval rate of around 68% as of Dec. 24, with a meager 28% of Canadians supporting him.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could announce his resignation as early as Monday, Canadian media reports.(DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The potential resignation would also come after Trudeau, who became prime minister in 2015, braved a difficult few months in politics. In September, he faced a no confidence vote in parliament that later failed, despite efforts from the Conservative Party to remove him from office.
On Dec. 16, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that she was stepping down from Trudeau's cabinet, dealing a significant blow to the prime minister. In her resignation letter, she claimed that the only "honest and viable path" was to leave the Cabinet.
"For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada," Freeland, who was previously seen as a Trudeau loyalist, wrote.
"Our country is facing a grave challenge," the letter added. "That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war."
Later in December, one of Trudeau's key allies, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, said that he planned to present a formal motion of no-confidence on Jan. 27.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been facing dwindling popularity in his country.(DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
"No matter who is leading the Liberal Party, this government's time is up. We will put forward a clear motion of non-confidence in the next sitting of the House of Commons," Singh said.
Trudeau's personal choices have also invited backlash from his opponents. At the end of November, Trudeau faced international criticism after he was seen dancing at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto while a destructive riot took place in his home city of Montreal.
Don Stewart, a Member of Parliament (MP) representing part of Toronto, called out the prime minister in a post on X.
"Lawless protesters run roughshod over Montreal in violent protest. The Prime Minister dances," the Canadian politician wrote. "This is the Canada built by the Liberal government."
"Bring back law and order, safe streets and communities in the Canada we once knew and loved," Stewart added. Trudeau later denounced the lawlessness, calling the riot "appalling."
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down, according to the Globe and Mail.(DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Trudeau's office for comment.
Fox News' Chris Massaro, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Andrea Margolis is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Readers can send story tips to andrea.margolis@fox.com.
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Bye Felicia........If only another countries leader had the integrity to resign over high inflation and high housing costs, the election may have turned out differently.
Why are you looking for government to solve market problems? It's not their job to do these things, unless of course you want to go full socialist state.
So your position is the government has no role in inflation or costs of items? interesting. ridiculous but interesting.
Explain to me how the US Government can solve the housing crisis.
So i'm going to assume you have capitulated inflation based on your comment, as for the housing crisis, give tax breaks to builders who develop low-cost housing, Open up areas for timber to thin old growth, the parts of California than haven't burned may be a good start because their policies lead to wildfires. incentives to steel producers to make housing studs, and other home components. Do you want me to go on? Fire all the illegals that are working construction sites, and then immediately deport them for illegally working in the US, this will follow the Ford philosophy, have your workers able to afford your product.
Assume nothing. I gave you the easiest of challenges and you want to play games?
That's been done and failed. No one wants low-cost housing in their neighborhoods and have consistently sued to stop building projects.
Trump did this his first go around. That did little.
How much do you want to raise taxes on wishful thinking? The problem is that home builders are building to sell. They control how much is built keeping the cost inflated.
While they shouldn't be working illegally in the US they do work for lower wages. Deporting them and/or fining builders using them will increase costs and prices.
You fixes have been tried and failed...
Prohibit corporate entities and their affiliates with over $100million in revenue from owning more than 20 single family homes. Housing is expensive because people now have to compete with trillion dollar money managers like Vanguard, BlackRock, etc.
Slow government spending. Money is expensive because the US govt has printed too much of it and the federal reserve had to raise interest rates to curb inflation.
And he's gone.
Trudeau resigns as Canada prime minister
That just came across my news feed as an alert .
he will stay in office until his party picks a new leader from what i read , and that could take months according to what i read .
It's doubtful that it will take that long to appoint a new PM. Trudeau prorogued parliament which means that almost everything parliament does immediately stops cold, and a long break would be a disaster for the nation.
He’s been PM for close to 10 years, long enough or too long.
MUCH too long, years too long. As I've said here more than once, he sure as hell couldn't walk in his father's shoes. He stabbed Israel in the back at the UN, kow-towed to Trump and who knows what else he fucked up?. One of his most important ministers quit, other ministers wanted him to resign and even his wife walked out on him.
Melania will be disappointed that she'll no longer get to see him