section_path: Loss of support for Justin Trudeau/Opposition parties
section_name: Opposition parties
paragraph_text: Opposition parties
  
  Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre referenced the reported rift between Trudeau and Freeland the previous week during Question Period on 10 December, remarking that Trudeau had "lost control of his own cabinet" and rhetorically asking "which one of is going to win?", while Deputy Opposition Leader and Ontario Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman accused Trudeau of "bullying his female finance minister". Freeland responded by stating that "the only would-be bullies in this House are directly opposite," insisting that she and Trudeau were "united" and denying claims of the rift. After Freeland's resignation, Poilievre claimed Trudeau had "lost control, yet clings to power."
  
  Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, whose party had already voted alongside the Conservatives to oust the Trudeau government in the last of multiple unsuccessful motions of non-confidence, remarked on 16 December that "the Trudeau government is done." Quebec Premier François Legault avoided saying whether he retained confidence in Trudeau following Freeland's resignation, stating it would be "up to the people in the House of Commons to decide how they will vote in the coming weeks, the coming months." He had asked the Bloc Québécois to withdraw support from the Liberal minority government back in September 2024.
  
  NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, whose party had until earlier in 2024 been in a supply-and-confidence arrangement with the Liberal minority government, and even afterward had continued to support the government in confidence votes, said on 17 December that Trudeau's Liberals "are focused on themselves" and that Trudeau "has to go," marking the first time he called for Trudeau's resignation. He nonetheless said that "all options are on the table", when asked whether he would vote no confidence in the government. Subsequently, on 20 December, Singh stated that the NDP "will vote to bring this government down" in an open letter posted on X.
  
  Green Party leader Elizabeth May called 16 December an "unprecedented day" in Canadian politics and said she was "shocked by the events of today."