Quite the storm is brewing for Prime Minister Mark Kearney. Three liberal MPs will soon be departing.
Jonathan Wilkinson will be leaving to become Ambassador of the European Union.
Nate Erkstein-Smith will be resigning his seat this summer after losing a nomination contest to run for the Ontario Liberals.
And climate hardliner Stephen Gibow will be resigning later this summer in protest over Kearney's rollback of carbon taxes, EV mandates,
and the MOU with Alberta Premier Daniel Smith. In a statement posted to Ex, Gibow said,
"It's time for me to pursue my fight for environmental protection and the fight against climate change in a different way."
Maybe Gibow 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 writings 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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