Furey: Back in 2014 Trudeau showed his hostility for the old guard by kicking out every Liberal Senator from caucus. While a few of them agreed to be trotted out in front of the cameras to claim their support for it, the truth was that most of them were deeply offended to be told they weren’t real Liberals by someone decades their junior.
And this didn’t just happen to the Senators. There are a lot of prominent Liberals who’ve been out in the cold for the past five years. Former MPs. Former ministers. Influential strategists.
When Wilson-Raybould and Philpott resigned from cabinet but not caucus maybe it was their way of saying that it wasn’t them who were the rogue Liberals but Trudeau. That he’s the outlier. There’s a lot to that, given how far left he’s taken the party in such a short period of time.
“The caucus is united in a desire to get re-elected. It is not necessarily united in a desire to be elected behind [Trudeau],” one Liberal MP anonymous told Postmedia columnist John Ivison.
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