An election is imminent either way and the current government will not have a lot of credibility even with a new leader, former professor of political science at the University of British Columbia Richard Johnston says.
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00:00But if the new Prime Minister comes in, is he not going to face the challenges that Justin
00:05Trudeau has been facing? Because you touched on Donald Trump there, and the tariffs that
00:11he wants to slap on Canada, and things have been difficult. Is it going to be any different
00:15with somebody new in power?
00:17Not really. The timelines are short. Even if they succeed in coming up with a credible
00:25candidate, they're going to face confidence votes in Parliament as soon as it resumes.
00:30There'll have to be a throne speech and a program laid out at the end of March. Parliament
00:35will have to provide some kind of supply that is basically money from the Treasury to run
00:42the government. But an election is imminent anyway. If it isn't in the spring, it'll be
00:50in the autumn. So this is a government with a very short timeline, and even with a new
00:56leader, not a lot of credibility as the probable government going forward beyond sometime this
01:03year.