While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation was expected, it is the source of chaos.

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What shouldn’t be lost in the political euphoria flowing out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation is the chaos he is leaving in his wake.

Not since former Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative premier Grant Devine adjourned this province’s legislature in 1991 — without passing a budget to deal with a crippling debt crisis — has a governing leader in this country left his jurisdiction in such a mess.

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One can only anticipate the same results for the federal Liberals as Devine experienced in his record loss to the NDP. But that inevitable outcome now seems secondary to the potential catastrophe being played out — something even Trudeau acknowledged in his resignation address on Monday.

“We are at a critical moment in the world,” Trudeau said. “My friends, as you know, I am a fighter.”

The incongruence of these two sentences is rather mind boggling. However, at least the first part is true: Both domestically and internationally, the prime minister’s resignation comes at a critical moment in the world.

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