Parliament will be suspended for the duration of the leadership contest and resume on March 24, Mr Trudeau announced.
Then Trudeau will remain PM as long as the internal election takes.
I would suggest, less than gently, that the G-General should not have allowed this. Closing P simply because of an internal to a party election? We didn’t do this for Kemi’s selection. We didn’t do it for Rishi’s and Liz was in office. Didn’t do it for Wilson/Callaghan nor Maggie/Major.
No, this strikes me as a very bad portent.
The GG is a Trudeau place woman. He is like Blair and is quite brazen in putting sympathisers in important ‘neutral’ roles.
In much the same vein, the constitutional stitch up in Austria has failed. The President ( senile old berk ) tried to knock up a deal between the Volkspartei and the Socialists and a minor liberal party. It failed of course and now in triumph, the Freedom Party ( who actually won the election ) are going to dictate terms to the other parties if they want a role in government.
This was covered on a recent Peterson podcast with Pierre Poilievre; the heir assumptive. He exact words were, ‘why should the Canadian people wait for the Liberals to sort out their shit?’
I must have missed the screams of outrage from the Left about this trampling of democracy. Or is that only when Boris does it?
Call me suspicious but…
All these international headlines saying “Trudeau Resigns” are factually wrong.
What he actually said was: “…after the party selects it’s next leader…I intend to resign…”
So not resigned yet, nothing irrevocable for a thick-skinned PM; there’s wiggle room there.
And we know how much politicians love wiggle room.
I was mildly disappointed that he didn’t make his party leader resignation speech in black-face.
@BiND
He should have had a cap and a cigar like his dad
It is really nice to be able to suspend parliament for three months, making sure anything you don’t want Touched has been forced through already.
No debate, no meetings, just “execution of previously decided policy” …..
And here we thought the US under the Dems, or the UK under the Uniparty was already “banana republic in clown world”…
Canada just *had* to one-up, eh?
At this stage it seems the Canadians will be relieved to be rid of him however it is done.
CD,
Is he old enough to smoke?
Just like during Covid the checks and balances are all part of the system, the courts literally said it’s not for us to disagree with the government lockdown policies. Here we have the governor general allowing party politics before country interests.
Our so called rights and freedoms are worthless if they can’t be enforced.
I wanted him to hang in there and take his beating like a mensch – but as he’s never been a mensch, that was too much to hope for. I agree that the GG made a mistake: we had a government that had clearly lost the confidence of the House (although with Jagmeet, that was probably conditional on his pensin vesting, which occurs on Feb 25th, by the way), and we are at most 9 months away from an election, anyway.
This differs somewhat from the last time the House was prorogued (under Harper) – in that case we had just been through an inconclusive election, and the opposition parties were fighting like cats in a sack; there was no hope of them forming a government, and a reasonable chance that Harper could get his government together and command confidence as a minority (as he did).