Justin Trudeau is resigning. A look back at the demands for him to go – National [Video]

Justin Trudeau has announced he will resign as Liberal party leader and prime minister once a new one is chosen in a leadership race, a move that comes after months of calls for him to do so from his own party.

Calls for Trudeau to resign from within his own party reached their highest levels in the past month following Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet as finance minister and deputy prime minister.

You can read the transcript of his remarks here.

So how did Trudeau get here, and how long have the calls for him to resign been getting louder?

Calls for Trudeau to resign have been intensifying over the last six months.

Last week, at least two Liberal riding association presidents told Global News it was time for Trudeau to take the steps to resign, with Taiaiako’n–Parkdale–High Park chair Derek Raymaker warning the party was “threatened with oblivion” because Trudeau wouldn’t leave.

Quebec MPs were the last …