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.

 

[FJAG]

No idea. Sometimes people don't notice provisions in constitutions or legislation until something brings it to their attention. Until Moroun starting squawking, the matter didn't have a high profile. None of that detracts from how interesting the provision is.

Just to support what @Czech_pivo has said, I've lived in SW Ontario since 2009 and since then have been across that border dozens of times. To say that the Moroun organization is aggressive in the protection of their monopoly by way of litigation is an understatement. There were numerous issues before the Gordie Howe bridge was approved. Rick Snyder, the Republican governor of Michigan, finally threw a lot of effort behind getting the deal done against some heavy duty lobbying from the Moroun organization and his political backers. Those were tremendously contentious years.

All this long before Trump's presidency was just a wet dream.

The last few years have actually been pretty quiet until this last whirlwind assault.

 

[RangerRay]

NCE - Not Conservative Enough (according to many supporters of Team Blue I deal with).

As opposed to the "still learning to not be the attack dog all the time" incumbent? On that front, I'd see people buy in.

On the other hand, if he's serious about wanting to grab the brass ring for Team Blue Ottawa Franchise, he needs to be more convincing about "seriousness/gravitas" -- wanting to be a national instead of a provincial leader. There's public info as of last summer saying he's back to taking French post-COVID ...
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... (source) so we'll have to see.

So the Premier of Ontario who spends all his time trying to be the Mayor of Toronto wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada?

No thanks.

 

[Furniture]

So the Premier of Ontario who spends all his time trying to be the Mayor of Toronto wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada?

No thanks.

He's been a better premier than most that I have seen over 20+ years of watching politics. When faced with backlash against an unpopular and frivolous choice, he adjusts course. Most just bash on and hope that the tiny vocal minority they are appealing to come out on election day.

The LPO imploded and have remained in that state because they forgot that the "folks" matter, and get to have their say every few years.

The backroom dealings in Queen's Park aren't any worse than they were before, it's just that the "legacy media" is mostly captured by LPC/LPO believers, so every greasy deal is front page news on repeat.

 

[Eaglelord17]

He's been a better premier than most that I have seen over 20+ years of watching politics. When faced with backlash against an unpopular and frivolous choice, he adjusts course. Most just bash on and hope that the tiny vocal minority they are appealing to come out on election day.

The LPO imploded and have remained in that state because they forgot that the "folks" matter, and get to have their say every few years.

The backroom dealings in Queen's Park aren't any worse than they were before, it's just that the "legacy media" is mostly captured by LPC/LPO believers, so every greasy deal is front page news on repeat.

Ford is very corrupt. Your right they weren’t worse than the LPO/LPC but that doesn’t mean they weren’t corrupt too.

I miss the Harper days where the largest corruption scandal they can find is a senator buying a 16$ glass of orange juice, instead of billions in corruption and no one batting a eye.