No need to get conspiratorial.
It wouldn't be the first time in history where one party/group/individual decides to relinquish power anticipating some crisis:
- Sulla was a dictator who retired before the collapse of the Roman republic. - The British handed over power to India before the communal violence escalated. - Nixon resigned to avoid the spectacle of impeachment.
Someone in power may be able to better see some things inevitably coming and bail out sooner to avoid the worse.
You said Trudeau was unpopular for years and yet only now he's leaving.
There's unpopular and then there's unpopular.
His approval rating has dropped off a cliff over the past year. His cabinet ministers have been resigning and/or openly criticizing him / asking for him to step down to save their own political careers.
This article is from last September - 4 months ago.
>> Darrell Bricker, a political scientist and pollster with Ipsos, compared the current moment in Canadian politics to this summer’s historic defeat of the UK Tories, who lost 251 seats in British parliament.
>>“It’s basically over,” said Mr Bricker of Trudeau’s government in an interview with the BBC.
>>“All that is happening is sands sliding out of the sand dial, and we’re working our way towards an inevitable conclusion.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrdrnxp74wo
And then this article is from October:
>>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada faced the stiffest challenge to his leadership from fellow elected Liberal Party members on Wednesday during a closed-door meeting where he was urged to resign to avoid torpedoing the party’s chances in the next election.
>>For more than a year, the Liberals under Mr. Trudeau have trailed the Conservative Party by double digits in polls, suggesting that the Liberal Party could face a crushing defeat in the next election, which must be held by next October.
>>Panic within the party intensified after the Liberals recently lost two special parliamentary elections in districts that had been considered their strongholds.
>>The growing dissatisfaction played out on Wednesday, when most of the 153 Liberal members of Parliament gathered in Ottawa for a scheduled caucus meeting.
>>While caucus proceedings are typically secret, Mr. Trudeau, according to Canadian news media citing unnamed sources, was presented with a letter signed by about two dozen caucus members calling on him to step down.
>>The letter has been circulating for several days, but has been a closely held secret.
>>About 20 Liberal members criticized Mr. Trudeau’s leadership after the letter was read aloud during the three-hour-and-17-minute meeting, according to Canadian news outlets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/world/canada/trudeau-vote...
Why do you insist that having a 23% approval rating and half of your party begging you to resign isn't a good enough reason?
Seriously, if you're not familiar with the internal politics of another country, why would you make up conspiracies about them?
We agree that there was a good reason for Trudeau to not be in power for a while.
I am just focusing on the timing and history.