Trudeau leadership: Longtime Liberal N.B. premier McKenna says ‘I’d be leaving’ [Video]

Former New Brunswick Liberal premier Frank McKenna says if he were in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s shoes, at this point in the government’s mandate, he would step down.

“If it were me, I would,” McKenna told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday.

“I would be leaving, simply because, 10 years, I think, is a natural life expectancy of every commodity we have, from a watch to a phone, even to a political term,” he added. “And we’re watching now incumbency become a major factor in elections in B.C. and New Brunswick, the United Kingdom and France and Germany.”

McKenna was premier of New Brunswick from 1987 to 1997 and served as Canada’s ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2006.

More than two dozen Liberal MPs told the prime minister they wanted him to step aside during a lengthy caucus meeting on Wednesday. Sources …