New Brunswick MP Dominic LeBlanc was in his Beausejour riding Thursday to give an update on a new correctional health centre at the Dorchester Penitentiary, but he was confronted by questions about political turmoil in Ottawa.
LeBlanc, who was sworn in Monday as the new finance minister after Chrystia Freeland abruptly resigned, said Justin Trudeau has the full support of his cabinet to stay on as prime minister despite the tumultuous week.
But some New Brunswick MPs, like Jenica Atwin and Wayne Long, are calling for Trudeau to step down.
“That’s a view that they’re expressing,” said LeBlanc. “The prime minister listened carefully when that view was expressed to him. Colleagues did what is the appropriate thing. They, in a caucus meeting, expressed those views directly to the prime minister himself.”
LeBlanc said the New Brunswick MPs who shared their views on Trudeau are friends of his and people he …