Quite. The storm is brewing
for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Three Liberal MPs will soon be departing.
Jonathan Wilkinson will be leaving to
become ambassador of the European Union.
Nate Erskine-smith will be
resigning his seat this summer after
losing a nomination contest to
run for the Ontario Liberals.
And climate hardliner Stephen Gilbert will be resigning
later this summer in protest over
Carney's rollback of carbon taxes,
EV mandates and the MoU
with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
In a statement posted to X, Guilbeault said,
it's time for me to pursue my fight for
environmental protection and the fight
against climate change in a different way.
Maybe Gilbert will dust off
the old orange jumpsuit and go
back to scaling buildings so
taxpayers can rescue him again.
When the three depart,
the Liberals will temporarily drop to 171 seats.
Technically a minority, though
the opposition parties will still have fewer.
But for now, these ridings are all currently
projected as safe for the Liberals in by elections,
which will likely be held in the fall.
But there's trouble in liberal Paradise.
14 Liberal MPs signed a private protest letter
warning that the Alberta deal
destroys the government's environmental credibility.
We don't know exactly who they are.
There could be overlap with the three MPs leaving,
but that still means that there are
at least 11 unhappy climate campers in the caucus.
So the Liberals could potentially be blocked
by their own members in a vote on energy infrastructure.
Meanwhile, a referendum is brewing in
Alberta and this week not properly reading the room.
Kearney warned Alberta separatists who think
referendum will provide the province more leverage,
that they are being unhelpful and
are risking a very dangerous bluff.
Heavy pressure is now mounting on Kearney to
deliver real pipelines and energy progress,
because what prime Minister wants a province to
vote for separation on their watch.
Will this storm tear the Liberals apart?
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