Liberals bring out the Knives

Ron in Regina

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Then, with about 60 Liberal MP’s calling out for Trudeau’s resignation…& probably 30-40 biting their tongues hoping for one of the 9 cabinet positions…then I’m assuming we’ll really see the knives come out from those not gifted into Cabinet.
 
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Ron in Regina

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A senior government source confirmed the shuffle is expected to include more than 10 people, including the current slate of ministers as well as new additions from the Liberal backbench.

More than 10 people? Nine open posts? Someone else is goona get Freelanded?

Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet Friday morning, with changes expected to about a quarter of his senior team after a tumultuous week in which calls for the Prime Minister to step down have grown.
The Globe and Mail is not identifying the officially unofficial source because they were not permitted to disclose the still-private plans….blah blah blah….

When asked by reporters Thursday whether Mr. Trudeau still had the full support of his clown show cabinet, the newest newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said “yes.”
 
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Ron in Regina

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I’ve heard an unsubstantiated rumour, from an officially unofficial unauthorized source, that this cabinet shuffle is going to be “sizeable.” Meanwhile, Justin knows he’s on his way out the door, & that somebody’s gonna come along behind him and clean up after him…so it seems like a great time to stack the deck even further:
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How sizable (or sizeable even) a shuffle this will be remains to be seen. Though there are a number of vacancies to fill, as several ministers in recent months have either left their cabinet positions, or have declared they are not seeking re-election, which is typically a trigger for their replacement.
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Under Trudeau, the Liberals have been facing persistently poor polling numbers that have had them trailing Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives for more than a year. They've also faced significant byelection losses, and have heard repeated calls for the need of a shakeup or reset to Trudeau's inner circle, from the top down.
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Throughout his shuffles, Trudeau has sought to uphold gender parity and balance regional representation because it’s 2015-ish, though, with smaller pools of backbench MPs to look to in Western and Atlantic Canada, upholding those tenets may be more challenging this time.
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There's also been plenty of questions around what the prime minister's plans are for Parliament and whether a prorogation could be on the horizon.

A parogie-nation would end the current parliamentary session, kill all legislative business that has not passed, and put any plans to table further legislation on pause. A new session of Parliament would begin with a Speech from the Throne, setting the stage for a key confidence vote.

Proroguing now could potentially buy the prime minister some time, either to work on restabilizing his grip on power, or to allow the time for his party to conduct a leadership race, etc…

While not commenting directly on the potential for the prime minister to pull this lever, LeBlanc did note the Liberals did survive several confidence votes last week, referring to the series of last-minute votes on opposition motions and supplementary estimates, so thanks for that there Jagmeet.
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Ron in Regina

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“You can shuffle the cards on the table as many times as you want, but it’s still the same deck, and the leader of this group is Justin Trudeau, and that’s the problem”
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Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet this morning, with changes expected to about a quarter of his senior team after a tumultuous week in which calls for the Prime Minister to step down have grown.
Trudeau’s cabinet Shuffle will make two or three Liberal caucus members happy and about a hundred really antagonized if they aren’t already antagonized. So I suspect over the weekend you’ll see more caucus members that didn’t make the cabinet coming out demanding Mr. Trudeau’s resignation in addition to the 50 or 60 that already are.
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“You can shuffle the cards on the table as many times as you want, but it’s still the same deck, and the leader of this group is Justin Trudeau, and that’s the problem”
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Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet this morning, with changes expected to about a quarter of his senior team after a tumultuous week in which calls for the Prime Minister to step down have grown.
Trudeau’s cabinet Shuffle will make two or three Liberal caucus members happy and about a hundred really antagonized if they aren’t already antagonized. So I suspect over the weekend you’ll see more caucus members that didn’t make the cabinet coming out demanding Mr. Trudeau’s resignation in addition to the 50 or 60 that already are.
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Being the dealer the deck is stacked so he always draws a natural 21.
 
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Ron in Regina

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Being the dealer the deck is stacked so he always draws a natural 21.
The reality is that cabinet shuffles are a much bigger deal in what we’ll call “official Ottawa” compared to what’s going on in the lives of working people, trying to feed their families and pay the rent in the middle of an affordability crisis and runaway housing costs.
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More than a year of polling has shown that most Canadians have stopped listening to Trudeau, let alone his appointed cabinet underlings who keep telling us — insert laughter here — that they support the prime minister and expect him to lead them into the next election, in order to retain their current jobs.
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Before Freeland’s resignation, so many cabinet ministers had announced that they’re not running again to spend more time with family, or jumped ship because they can see the writing on the wall when it comes to the next election, or resigned in scandal (see Randy Boissonnault), that Trudeau’s cabinet today little resembles the one he was proud to introduce in July 2023.
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He increased our debt from 500 billion to 721 billion in just under four years and added another 500 billion.
The money doled out for the pandemic was quickly diverted to vote buying in special interest and lobby..
Strangely, there are still people who think he was a good prime minister.
 
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