It is increasingly likely that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce his resignation, although he has not yet made a final decision, a source accustomed to Trudeau's considering said Sunday.

The source spoke to Reuters after the Globe and Mail reported that Trudeau was expected to announce as early as Monday that he was stepping down as leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office.

The source requested anonymity because she was not authorized to talk publicly.

Trudeau's departure would go away the party with no everlasting leader at a time when polls show the Liberals will lose significantly to the official opposition Conservatives in an election that have to be held by the tip of October.

Sources told the Globe and Mail they didn't know exactly when Trudeau would announce his plans to quit, but said they expected it might occur before an emergency meeting of Liberal lawmakers on Wednesday.

A growing variety of Liberal lawmakers, alarmed by a series of dismal polls, have publicly called on Trudeau to resign.

The Prime Minister's Office didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment outside regular business hours. The prime minister's usually published schedule for Monday called for him to virtually attend a Cabinet committee meeting on Canada-U.S. relations.

It stays unclear whether Trudeau will step down immediately or remain prime minister until a brand new Liberal leader is elected, the Globe and Mail report added.

Trudeau took over as Liberal leader in 2013, when the party was in serious trouble and had fallen to 3rd place within the House of Commons for the primary time.

If he does resign, it might likely spark latest calls for a fast election to create a stable government able to handling President-elect Donald Trump's administration over the following 4 years.

The prime minister has spoken to Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc about whether he can be willing to step in as interim leader and prime minister, a source told the newspaper, adding that this is able to not be practical if LeBlanc desired to run for the leadership.

Trudeau, 53, had managed to fend off Liberal lawmakers nervous in regards to the polls and the lack of secure seats in two special elections.

But calls for him to resign have been mounting since December, when Trudeau tried to demote Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, one in every of his closest allies within the Cabinet, after she pushed back against his proposals for higher spending.

Instead, Freeland resigned and wrote a letter accusing Trudeau of “political gamesmanship” as a substitute of specializing in what was best for the country.

Trudeau brought the Liberals to power in 2015 by promising “sunny paths” and a progressive agenda that promoted women's rights and a promise to combat climate change.

But the day-to-day realities of governing step by step wore him down, and like many Western leaders, the necessity to cope with the results of the pandemic consumed much of his time.

Although Ottawa spent heavily on protecting consumers and businesses and ran record deficits, this provided little protection from public anger as prices rose.

A botched immigration policy led to a whole lot of hundreds of recent arrivals and put a strain on an already overheated housing market.