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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has rejected the idea of the Liberal caucus holding a secret ballot vote on Justin Trudeau’s leadership, saying it’s “just not how Liberals govern themselves.” Last week, 24 members of the caucus signed on to a letter calling on the prime minister to step down, but the next day Trudeau said firmly that he will lead his party into the next election.Some of the dissenters are now calling for Liberal MPs to vote in a secret ballot on whether Trudeau should remain leader.Freeland said leaders are not chosen by secret ballot in the Liberal party.“Our party and our caucus have had many opportunities to decide our own rules for choosing a leader,” she said at her weekly press conference on Tuesday. Story continues below advertisement ...

Ottawa’s changes to immigration flows are the latest in a slew of developments putting the governing Liberals — already in a politically precarious position with their minority government — under increasing fiscal pressure this fall, experts warn. With a potential fall economic statement looming over a gridlocked House of Commons, some forecasters warn the Liberals may verge deeper into deficits in an update to the fiscal outlook.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are behind the opposition Conservative Party in the polls, and Trudeau himself has been the target of a revolt within his party as some members of caucus seek to have the leader step aside — calls he has so far resisted.The House of Commons remains ensnared in procedural gridlock despite the Liberals surviving co...

A growing number of former administration officials and advisors to Donald Trump are calling the former U.S. president a “fascist,” pointing in particular to recent comments he has made about “the enemy from within.” When asked during a CNN town hall last week if she thinks Trump is a fascist, U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris replied, “Yes I do.” Later, she brought it up herself, saying Trump would, if elected again, be “a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”Harris was responding to explosive comments made by Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly to the New York Times, who asked him if he believes Trump is a fascist.“Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said...