Liberal MPs plotting against Trudeau seem like cowards
Plotting in secret against a weak leader isn’t courageous
Marc Miller says the attempt to oust Justin Trudeau as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister is “the most passive-aggressive, weak type of display of questioning of leadership I’ve ever seen.”
Miller is right to describe this attempted coup in disdainful terms, not because Trudeau shouldn’t step down, but because it’s so pathetic.
Miller – a longtime friend of Trudeau, one of the groomsmen in his wedding party and, of course, the current immigration minister – clearly has a different view of the PM than I do. But on the feeble attempt to remove the leader, we agree.
“They owe it to him to go up and tell it to his face,” Miller said in an interview with CBC Manitoba.
That the rebel group within caucus hasn’t gone public despite months of whispering and now more than a week of speculation about a letter demanding Trudeau resigns speaks volumes about these MPs. Of course, it speaks volumes in very hushed, quiet, fearful, secretive tones at a level barely perceptible to the human ear, but that’s the volume they are plotting at.
Compare this to an earlier generation who plotted to overthrow their leader.
When a group of Liberal MPs loyal to Paul Martin sought to finally oust Jean Chretien, they did it by putting their names on paper and going in front of television cameras and radio microphones. In other words, they didn’t hide from what they wanted to accomplish, they spoke out loudly and clearly and eventually they were successful.
In the long term, that push hurt the Liberal Party. But at least those MPs had the courage of their convictions, which isn’t something you can say about the current rebel crop.