There is a full-on mutiny happening on the good ship S.S. Liberal and it’s about time its captain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, started to address it for what it is or he could get tossed overboard.

Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s Office should ensure Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott speak and disclose every piece of information they have regarding the SNC-Lavalin file and they should do it as soon as possible.

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By not speaking, they are doing more damage to Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada than they could possibly do by anything they disclose.

Wilson-Raybould has repeatedly claimed inappropriate pressure but she has no evidence of Trudeau doing something criminal. But the opposition and media are treating Trudeau like he is a criminal because we don’t have all the facts. Her “silence” leads to wild speculation when the facts will lead to a conclusion.

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Politics is the art of managing expectation. Expectations are now wildly out of line with reality. And Trudeau is losing the battle.

Full disclosure would help him — not hinder him. It is only once Wilson-Raybould and Philpott speak that Trudeau can properly defend himself.

In the interim, both Liberal caucus members are destroying their party leader intentionally and inflecting collateral damage on their caucus members.

Jody Wilson-Raybould was busy writing a letter on Friday inflecting more damage to the PM and his credibility and fuelling a fire that only helps the Conservatives.

It is clear she does not want Justin Trudeau to be leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. There are proper ways for a caucus member to replace the leader. This is not one of the them.

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If she has a specific accusation about Trudeau she should make it in the House of Commons. She doesn’t have to break cabinet confidentially to make her accusation and tell the truth.

Regardless, the more the PMO plays this game, the more it hurts Trudeau.

Philpott was very smart and effective doing an exclusive interview with a magazine this past week that she knew would inflict maximum damage on Trudeau. The innuendo, again, is worse than anything she could actually say.

Eight weeks ago, Philpott felt so confident in the prime minister personally that she accepted a promotion in his cabinet. But now she acts to remove him as leader and claims “I’m not trying to damage our party or our government.”

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Philpott is a smart educated doctor and understands Newton’s law of motion that to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

She is deliberately acting to inflict as much damage as possible on Trudeau. She has the right to do it — but let’s not be cute about it.

Celina Caesar-Chavannes is playing from the same playbook. She decided to inform Justin Trudeau that she’s leaving the federal Liberal caucus and will sit as an independent MP — on the day after the budget, before Question Period — which was a strategic move designed to have maximum impact.

Trudeau and the PMO need to stop playing this media game they cannot win. Let everyone speak. Full and total disclosure.

Respond to their accusations with an equally fulsome disclosure. Explain to Canadians what you did and why you did it — honestly and completely. Go to the Liberal caucus and have a vote of confidence.

If Trudeau has the confidence of caucus, kick the mutineers out immediately. Then prepare to face the voters as the ultimate judge and jury this October in a fair fight with the opposition.

Jim Warren is a Liberal strategist who worked for former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto mayor Mel Lastman.