A face-off with only one face
At least Trudeau has a plan. His opponents have four days.
The letter, it’s said, does not exist in electronic form. In the argot of the earlier 2000s, nobody can flip it to anyone, because it exists only on paper. In a room somewhere on, or near, Parliament Hill. Access is closely guarded. By whom? Against whom? I don’t know.
Why is there a letter? It’s hard to say. Six MPs — which ones? I don’t know — told the Globe last week they won’t sign it. But they still hope Justin Trudeau will give up the Liberal leadership. They say this attitude is “widespread.”
Perhaps they find the prime minister’s willingness, at least occasionally, to stand up in public and say what he thinks unseemly. Perhaps they think the best way to make him go is to keep telling him he’s doing a great job. Perhaps they have lost any sense that they have it in them to affect events, if they ever had such a sense.
They worry their voter support is eroding. Here’s a question: What’s there to support?
To call this a phantom revolt would flatter phantoms. These people have until Wednesday to sprout vertebrae. Justin Trudeau is betting they won’t. It looks like a safe bet.