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.

Once known as the "Minister of Everything," the PM’s No. 2 said she no longer agrees with him on the best way forward.

Who can blame Chrystia Freehand for not wanting to wear Justin Trudeau’s mess? He played right into her hands when he: a) took Dominic LeBlanc to Mar-a-Lago; and b) offered her a different cabinet post right before the economic update. He was surely moving her because Donald Trump doesn’t like her. Who can blame Trump? She’s way smarter than he is.

Freeland, 56, has been a prominent figure in Trudeau's Liberal government since he took office in 2015, and led the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement during the Donald Trump's first presidency. Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian exports in his second term, which starts next month.

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