Liberal Party (Australia) Leadership Ballot - Sept. 14

[Hatman 🍁]

Such a move in Canada would backfire electorally.  People here think the PM is like the President, so trying to oust him would be like a coup, and would sink the party deep in the polls for doing something undemocratic. A party would have to be absolutely toxic to risk that.

[Hatman 🍁]

A formal mechanism doesn't exist because it wouldn't be seen as democratic.

A similar scenario happened in Manitoba, where Selinger had the voters (well, NDP members) choose who to be leader. I think this is what Canadians would expect. Either the leader sees the writing on the wall and resigns, or puts it up to a vote of the membership (not the MPs/MLAs)

[Hatman 🍁]

A formal mechanism doesn't exist because it wouldn't be seen as democratic.

A similar scenario happened in Manitoba, where Selinger had the voters (well, NDP members) choose who to be leader. I think this is what Canadians would expect. Either the leader sees the writing on the wall and resigns, or puts it up to a vote of the membership (not the MPs/MLAs)

You are forgetting that in Canada party leaders have been toppled at party conventions when there has been a leadership review that didn't pass some imaginary threshold. In 1982 Joe Clark was toppled as PC leader when he only got 67% of his one party to support him. He then ran to succeed himself and lost. Similarly Ralph Klein quit as Premier and Alberta PC leader after he only got a 55% vote of confidence in a leadership review.

This is not the same thing. In those instances, it was party members doing. In Australia, it was just the caucus.