There are other kinds of scandal in Canada, it’s not exclusively a Quebec thing. Some are waiting to find the light of day, others have already been exposed. Probably the largest non-Quebec scandals will prove to be bribery of government officials by Chinese interests for economic gain not necessarily in the Canadian interest. The Ontario government had some horrendous scandals involving money wasted in the energy sector. Then we could find some cases where money was supposed to go to fixing up conditions on isolated native reserves and went into some fat cats’ pockets instead. The BC casinos have been laundering vast amounts of gang and drug money. The list is pretty long. Yes Quebec leads the league but there are lots of teams.
Trudeau will probably have to resign, if the puppetmasters behind the scenes tell him he’s done, then he’s done for sure, because the puppetmasters will tell his fellow Liberal MPs the same thing and they will force him out. Their vote of non-confidence in him in caucus would give him no option in our system, there’s no such thing as clinging to power in this kind of parliament, the party itself can do that under a new leader but if the caucus unites behind that person, there’s no constitutional way to speed up the mandated October election other than an appeal to the Governor General to dissolve parliament. The last time that happened (with considerable cause) it turned into a national sovereignty debate and the actual reasons for the dissolution were forgotten in the furore. The current Governor General is not going to do that. Back in 1926 when it was tried before, we had a headstrong male GG who was sent over from Britain, but it’s a long time since that was last done and our current GG is a female celebrity type appointment who won’t do much if anything to interfere. So some caretaker leader will probably emerge, lead the party to the normal time for dissolution (June before an October election date) and the election will be called. Then they will be back to third party status.
Another thing that went wrong for the Liberals was that their leftist opponent got into the House in a byelection and didn’t tank as they expected, but actually ended up looking fairly competent. So now they can’t just mop up his lost support from that side of their position which Canadians mistakenly think is centrist (sort of like Gorbachev was a centrist).