P.E.I. MPs express sympathy for Freeland amid calls for prime minister to step down [Video]

Two Liberal MPs on P.E.I. are weighing in about the state of the party and whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to step down as the fallout from Chrystia Freeland’s resignation as finance minister Monday continues.

Freeland told a stunned nation that Trudeau had planned to replace her as finance minister, but not before she was expected to deliver the fall economic statement in the House of Commons that would reveal the government overshot its spending projections by more than $20 billion.

Malpeque MP Heath MacDonald, who once served as a finance minister in the P.E.I. government, said Freeland was put in a difficult position.

“I can’t imagine being asked or told a couple of days prior to being put on a national stage to address the fall economic statement, that the PM basically has lost confidence in you but expected you to carry on,” he said in an email …