Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[QV]

300k
Once he’s out of politics he will be seriously challenged to pull in half of that if he’s lucky in the real world - especially if he never becomes PM.

His pension will pull in more than half that. I'm sure he'll be just fine.

 

[Czech_pivo]

His pension will pull in more than half that. I'm sure he'll be just fine.

He’s a long long way away from being 65.

 

[QV]

He’s a long long way away from being 65.

Those kinds of guys always land lucrative jobs. It's no small thing what he's accomplished so far. He can make bank until 65 or sooner, then he will retire very, very well off.

 

[Furniture]

300k
Once he’s out of politics he will be seriously challenged to pull in half of that if he’s lucky in the real world - especially if he never becomes PM.

As leader of the Opposition, and a long time MP, has has enough connections to useful people to be hired pretty fast.

The animosity between parties on the hill is mostly manufactured image. When off the clock most are pretty friendly to each other, so I suspect he has lots of friends and acquaintances in the LPC, NDP, CPC, and the "movers and shakers" of Ottawa in general.

 

[Remius]

I’m sure if he doesn’t land anything real, the party will keep him employed. He’ll be an MP as long as he can. Leader or no. He’s done nothing else in his life.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Moroun started squawking about this over a dozen years ago, he launched lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit (some accounts say that its been 27-29) over the new bridge over the last 15yrs. Go and do the research. He has only found a sympathetic ear now.

I know that part. Don't care. The additional bridge is a good idea, and Moroun isn't entitled to a lack of competition.

I am interested in the idea of non-federal levels of government cutting deals with foreign governments. In the specific case, it's just between the US and Canada, and seems unexceptionable. Maybe it's a really good idea, and should work both ways. I can guess that some people who are happy with the bridge and happier that it puts Trump's nose out of joint might feel differently if Canadian provinces were cutting deals with Trump's administration. So also a maybe : maybe lower levels of government should be able to talk about deals across borders, but have no powers to execute them.