Calls are growing from within the Liberal caucus for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down as party leader — and some have pegged Chrystia Freeland as their choice to replace him.Twenty-one Liberal MPs have publicly urged Trudeau to resign — many of them within the last week — after Freeland shocked Canadians on Monday by resigning as deputy prime minister and finance minister hours before she was supposed to table the government's fall economic statement.

At his peak, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a political wunderkind who rode a wave of domestic and global popularity as a charismatic leader who hugged rock stars and welcomed refugees. Now,

That builds on the MPs already opposed to him continuing, believed to be over a third of the 153 from the ruling party