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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 20. Trudeau announced Monday he’s stepping down.
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BC’s Opposition Leader says the impending resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marks a turning point not just for federal politics, but this province as well. Trudeau announced Monday that he had asked the president of the Liberal Party to start the process of looking for his successor and will resign once a new leader is chosen. Trudeau said Gov.-Gen Mary Simon had agreed to prorogue Parliament until March 24 to facilitate the race. That will mean there will be no interim leader or interim prime minister. That move puts opposition plans to introduce a non-confidence motion to bring down the minority government in limbo for the time being. Gary Wilson, chair of the political science department at the University of Northern BC, told The Citizen the Liberals are going through a similar process that the Conservatives did in 1993,
resignation means that BC Premier David Eby is losing “his closest ally in Ottawa.” “He can no longer point fingers at the federal government to justify radical policies like the carbon tax, emissions caps, safe supply, decriminalization, and extreme identity politics, which British Columbians simply do not support,” Rustad said in the statement. When Eby’s government wanted to launch experiments with the decriminalization of illicit drugs in BC, Health Canada allowed an exemption from some federal laws to allow it to happen. This past September, in the lead-up to the provincial election, Eby issued a statement saying that his government would remove the carbon tax on individuals but not industrial polluters if the federal carbon backstop was repealed. Under leader Pierre Poilievre, the opposition federal Conservatives have been vocal opponents of both the decriminalization experiment and the carbon tax.
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