- Reaction score
- 5,180
- Points
- 1,260
Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)
- Thread starter daftandbarmy
- Start date
That’s just the usual theatrics. It means nothing.
- Reaction score
- 8,092
- Points
- 1,310
That's nice.
The House has been adjourned by the Speaker. Since Parliament has neither been prorogued nor dissolved, the power to reconvene the House rests with the Speaker.
- Reaction score
- 7,229
- Points
- 1,140
Be that as it may, appearances do matter. If the media makes enough noise about this, it will become yet another strike against an unpopular PM that appears to be clinging to power for nothing more than his ego.
It can only torpedo the LPC the longer he lingers.
- Reaction score
- 8,092
- Points
- 1,310
Mmmk.... except it is not a matter of the PM "clinging to power" but one of everyone adhering to established parliamentary procedures as set out in the standing orders.
If anyone is to blame, its both PMJT for not having the gumption to resign while Parliament was still in session and Jagmeet Singh waiting until the House adjourned to rattle his sabre.
Agreed, and I am certain the GG is waiting to exhale just as much as the next Canadian; however, we do have a process to follow.
The fact that the Leader of HMLO is using theatrics that play to the ignorance of most Canadians is beneath him.
Last edited:
Why do you say that? Hasn’t been beneath him for years. Both the PM and the leader of the Opposition have been pandering to the social media clicks of low-info voters for years. The PM’s sanctimonious platitudes have long been meaningless. So too have the leader of the opposition’s foot-stoping demands.
- Reaction score
- 8,092
- Points
- 1,310
*beneath all of them.
Better? I find all of the clickbait theatrical crap cringey. It reeks of desperation and weak policy, no matter the party it comes from.
I think you and I are largely in agreement.
- Reaction score
- 7,229
- Points
- 1,140
Sure...
Lingering after the majority of Canadians want you gone, while under a slow-time caucas, revolt is clinging to power, even if it's entirely within the rules.
I never said he was illegally clinging to power.
- Reaction score
- 8,092
- Points
- 1,310
Until such time that a confidence motion fails and an election says otherwise, "most Canadians" aren't what dictates who can legitimately govern. Its shitty, but it's parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy.
Nor did anyone else. He is still the legitimate Head of Government... even if he can't read the writing on the wall, ceiling, floors, windows, urinals telling him to get lost.
OldSolduer
Army.ca Relic
- Reaction score
- 16,733
- Points
- 1,260
Who will do exactly what he’s told to do. Don’t expect anything from him unless the PM (or KT?) tell him to.
Pelorus
Full Member
- Reaction score
- 445
- Points
- 780
You sure about that? Or just regurgitating the "Rebel du jour"?
- Reaction score
- 8,092
- Points
- 1,310
That would be wholly against the non-partisan role of the Speaker.
Now I am well aware of the partisanship Speaker Ferguson has shown, however, in this case he would need a good reason to recall the House. "We want to call an election early!" without it being a matter of corruption or documented criminality, is not on that flowchart of "Recall Parliament."
It would be the same situation were the Speaker pulled from the NDP, CPC, Bloc, Greens, or an Independent.
- Reaction score
- 20,504
- Points
- 1,280
And if it was either of those things, then it brings up the whole “…so why don’t you have the security clearance to see the documents” can of worms again.
- Reaction score
- 6,763
- Points
- 1,160
As has most politics. From municipal to federal. These two guys are not outliers in our system.
- Reaction score
- 6,763
- Points
- 1,160
Oh, he can read the writing. His narcissistic ego just won't allow him to recognise the signs.
- Reaction score
- 5,180
- Points
- 1,260
Like the difference between hearing and listening.
