Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he is proroguing Parliament and will resign once a new leader is elected to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Windsor-Essex MP’s are weighing in on his resignation.
“We need to turn the page,” Windsor-Tecumseh Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk said Monday. “We need to put a final stop, and an end point on any internal division, and we need to move forward, united.”
Kusmierczyk declined to say if he agreed with the decision to prorogue versus a snap election.
He believes however the next election will be so “consequential” that it will require a united front by the Liberal Party.
“You look at the investments we’re making in people, whether it’s dental care, whether it’s childcare, whether it’s housing, all of those policies, all of that vision is, will be on the ballot in the upcoming election,” said Kusmierczyk. “We need a strong, united Liberal party, to be able to put that vision forward and that choice forward in …