Elections should sleep with men, or with women. These bi-elections are perverted GROMMERS!
Canadian Federal Election Outcome October 20th (or 27th?), 2025.
- Thread starter Ron in Regina
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How can an MP surrender their seat ? If that is allowed why do we bother with by elections ?
I see this happening. Carney is made leader. Let's say he does not unperogue parliament and just goes straight into federal election. And maybe a series of interviews with CBC reporters only and he won't get any tough questions. Add a smear campaign and a bit of luck ..... maybe a Trump thrown in on the side ... and who knows.
I believe the Libs have done this before in 1984 with John Turner, to replace Pierre Trudeau, & Turner wasn’t an MP at the time.
Trudeau (Sr) had just stacked the Senate much like Trudeau (the lessor) is currently doing, & Turner (the Carney of 1984) claimed he had no choice but to honour Trudeau (Papa Trudeau)’s wishes, etc…sound vaguely familiar? Within nine weeks Turner lost to Brian Mulroney who ended up with the largest majority in Canadian history with 211 seats.
(I’m expecting Poilievre’s win to be bigger)
Can’t remember if somebody surrendered their seat to Turner, or if he went straight to an election within a couple of weeks, but don’t put anything past the liberals. Trudeau's resignation in 1984 triggered a leadership election, which Turner successfully contested. Turner held the office of prime minister for just 79 days, as he advised the governor general to dissolve Parliament soon after being sworn in. He went on to lose the 1984 election in a landslide. I’m hoping history repeats itself on someone parachuting in on the tail of Trudeau stank.
The defining scandal of the 1984 general election was that in Pierre Trudeau’s final days, he had approved roughly 200 patronage appointments to Liberal Party stalwarts — including making cabinet minister Bryce Mackasey the ambassador to Portugal. None of the appointments were illegal; they just seemed skeezy, particularly when Trudeau’s successor John Turner refused to reverse them.
Trudeau (the recent) stacked up scandals & ethics violations like his old man couldn’t even fathom, & I expected a trouncing proportional to this to take place.
Nowadays, the ArriveCan scandal alone threatens to dwarf the relative political malfeasance of making 200 patronage appointments. While the details are still coming out, it could well involve tens of millions in misallocated federal monies.
Add to that a series of scandals involving alleged political interference in the justice system (the SNC Lavalin scandal, the Brenda Lucki affair) as well as no shortage of patronage appointments.
Just last year, Ottawa spent weeks being wracked by controversy that the Liberals’ special rapporteur for foreign interference was David Johnston, a former governor general who literally used to ski with the Trudeau family.
Both Trudeaus stand out for their reckless disregard for fiscal responsibility. In just nine years, Justin Trudeau has effectively doubled the federal debt, with COVID spending representing a significant chunk of that.
But the elder Trudeau still managed to run up the national credit card at levels that remain jaw-dropping.
FIRST READING: Canadians hated Pierre Trudeau, but he left things in better shape than his son
The elder Trudeau was deeply unpopular when he left office 40 years ago, but with far fewer of the crises defining his son's tenure
I think PP needs to get off the slogans and tell Canada what they are in for if they re-elect this obtuse Utopian Cult.
It could be the bump in Quebec, but Kamalla got a bump. Right now, all the Liberals are doing is America is evil, and Trump and...
But if we go to an election, Carney will have to face Poilievre, and he will be eviscerated on issues like people are still in tents, people still can't find housing, and drugs and crime are rampant. I was robbed three times last year. I think were going to have to rethink everything, and the Liberals can't think past their own political skin.
Regardless who is elected we are ripe for the picking . Our dollar has sunk to the 70 cent level thanks to our current governments policies . Our devalued dollar only helps exporters . Canada’s strategy of adding tariffs to goods bought in American dollars is a killer to both consumers and importers . We have no or little leverage at this time .
Put a bag of meth in plain site and youll keep your tools.
The longer Still PM Trudeau can keep parliament prorogued while still throwing around taxpayer dollars like Liberal campaign funds…while Carney is able to avoid any tough questions whatsoever while also benefiting from parliament being prorogued by the Liberals…the better it is for them.
Question is, how long can the Liberals drag this out past March 10th 2025 without Carney having to actually answer any questions?
