Canada’s Trudeau vows lead his Liberal Party into the next election Boston 25 News [Video]

TORONTO — (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election, dismissing a request by some party members to not run for a fourth term.

Trudeau met with his Liberal members of Parliament for three hours Wednesday, where he learned that more than 20 lawmakers from his party signed a letter asking him to step down before the next election.

Trudeau said there were “robust conversations” ongoing about the best way forward, but “that will happen as me as leader going into the next election.”

No Canadian prime minister in more than a century has won four straight terms.

Trudeau’s Cabinet ministers have said he has the support of the vast majority of the 153 Liberal Party members of the House of Commons.

The Liberals recently suffered upsets in special elections for seats representing two districts in Toronto and Montreal that the party …