After a tense three-and-a-half hour caucus meeting Wednesday, discussing whether or not they should be fighting Trudeau’s leadership due to his ever-decreasing popularity, Liberal MPs emerged declaring the fight was, indeed, needed — against Pierre Poilievre.

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith emerged to chat cordially with reporters. At one point, he said that trust needs to be restored. When pressed by reporters as to whose trust has to be restored, the MP said his message in the room was two-fold: the prime minister has to listen to the frustrations of caucus members and incorporate changes moving forward, and that his colleagues need to turn the knives outwards, not inwards, and focus on taking the fight to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Well, that clears up everything then — except it doesn’t.