Trudeaus hold on power diminishing despite Cabinet reshuffle, with Canadian PM to face no-confidence vote

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chances of staying on in power have become more tenuous after the opposition party that backed his government for years announced it will vote no confidence in the government when Parliament resumes.An embattled Trudeau reshuffled his Cabinet on Friday — but whether he will step aside in the coming days or weeks remains an open question.Trudeau did not address his future or take questions after he left the meeting with his new Cabinet.But Trudeau said his government is preparing for Donald Trump and his threat to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products.“In exactly one month the new president will inaugurated and we are preparing Canada to face that,” Trudeau said in his first remarks to reporters since his finance minister quit.“Whatever the U.S.

administration may do, that is our priority, and that is that we’re working on and we have a lot of work to do.”But Trudeau is facing rising discontent over his leadership, and the abrupt departure of his finance minister on Monday could be something he can’t recover from.“The prime minister has simply asked for some time to reflect on his own future,” said David McGuinty, the new Public Safety Minister.Rachel Bendayan, the official languages minister, said Trudeau “told us he had a difficult choice to make.”The political upheaval comes at a difficult moment for Canada.Trump keeps calling Trudeau the governor of the 51st state and has threatened to impose sweeping tariffs if Canada does not stem what he calls a flow of migrants and drugs in the United States — even though far fewer of each cross into the U.S.from Canada than from Mexico, which Trump has also threatened.“We have in the next 60 days an existential threat for the Canadian economy, for people that could lose their jobs.

The unemployment rate could double.We need to focus on that,” said Marc Miller, the immigration minister and a close friend of Trudeau’s.“I think he’s the...