While Trudeau handled the COVID-19 crisis fairly well, lately there has been serious mismanagement and internal party strife, former professor of political science at the University of British Columbia Richard Johnston says.
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00:00Firstly, what challenges has Justin Trudeau been facing lately and how did he get to the
00:05position of announcing his resignation today?
00:09It's a layered cake.
00:12Much of it is aftermath of COVID.
00:14The government of Canada actually managed COVID fairly well, but it did involve controversial
00:20choices that restricted liberties.
00:22We had an insurrectionist episode that dramatized the divisions.
00:29The party suffers from the fact that there's now a clear, plausible alternative, and the
00:36choice of Pierre Poglieva as leader of the Conservative Party distilled some of that.
00:40That's now two years ago.
00:42And then this year has been just kind of shabby rather than traumatic, mismanagement at the
00:49margins.
00:50And then with Trump's election, of course, we're now in the firing line and we don't
00:55actually have a credible government to deal with the president-elect.
01:00And then finally, as Chrystia Freeland's statement that you had in your video clip dramatized,
01:06there are divisions inside the party, and finally she has crystallized those and basically
01:12blown the matter wide open.