Will he stay or will he go?

hitest · 01-06-2025, 10:29 AM

The Canadian Prime Minister is having a news conference shortly. The speculation is that he will resign as our PM, but, stay on as a member of parliament.
It's starting to look like President-elect Trump will face a new Prime Minister.

hitest · 01-06-2025, 10:31 AM

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyjmy7vl64t

hitest · 01-06-2025, 11:14 AM

Trudeau just resigned as Canada's PM. New leader of the Liberal party to be selected.

hazel · 01-06-2025, 11:14 AM

Good riddance!

hitest · 01-06-2025, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Good riddance!

Agreed! I wonder if Ms. Freeland will be selected as the next leader of the Liberal party. Canada will be going to an election when a new leader is chosen for the Liberal party.

leclerc78 · 01-06-2025, 11:29 AM

I don't count on it.
Remember Kim Campbell ?
North America is still a closed minded society.

hitest · 01-06-2025, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by leclerc78

I don't count on it.
Remember Kim Campbell ?
North America is still a closed minded society.

Indeed! The Canadian Parliament is prorogued until March to give the Liberals time to select their new leader. I suspect that an election will follow that event particularly if the opposition parties bring down the government with a non-confidence vote.

ntubski · 01-06-2025, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by leclerc78

I don't count on it.
Remember Kim Campbell ?
North America is still a closed minded society.

The "close minded" comment sounds like you're suggesting people wouldn't vote for a woman, but don't you think the Liberals will lose regardless of who is leader?
Unless you mean that Ms. Freeland will remember Kim Campbell and decide not to compete for the leadership of what's almost certainly going to be a losing party in the next election?

___ · 01-06-2025, 07:58 PM

Trump will annex .ca https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pit...203200151.html

(& [OT] Jr. will pay for Greenland's voters to sell it to USA)

___ · 01-06-2025, 08:03 PM

This was a dup of the above post, so I'll change it to something else.

Totally OT sorry. At least I didn't start another political thread!

I wonder what Trump will do about the horrible LA fires...

FOX News (right wingers) are blaming the DEI fire chief. She is blaming the (Dem) mayor for the budget cuts.

My opinion is: what the extreme Libertarians would say/do!

killingthemonkey · 01-07-2025, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ___

Trump will annex .ca https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pit...203200151.html

In truth, we don't really want it. Oh, I'd take Nova Scotia, though.

hitest · 01-07-2025, 11:19 AM

The president-elect is behaving very oddly. Focusing his energy on saying that Canada should be the 51st state, buying Greenland, and the stupidity with Panama. There's something wrong with Trump. I think he's losing his poop over his upcoming sentencing hearing this Friday.

sundialsvcs · 01-07-2025, 02:35 PM

It seems very strange to me that any single government official can prevent your Parliament from convening . . . I think you need to change your Constitution. If any one person can completely prevent Parliament from doing its job, why do say that you have one?

hitest · 01-07-2025, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs

I think you need to change your Constitution. If any one person can completely prevent Parliament from doing its job, why do say that you have one?

I think you need to have a Supreme Court that follows your constitution; your 14th amendment is quite clear. Your officials have no respect for the rule of law. I find it odd that Americans are more upset about the prorogue of parliament than we are.
You had one member in Congress that was able to fire the House speaker. One member.

sundialsvcs · 01-07-2025, 06:16 PM

I didn't mean anything by my comment, @Hitest. I'm an American, after all.

I'm simply astonished that it is possible to cause the national legislative body not to meet. (Which is how I dimly understand the situation.) To lil' ol' me, that's a rather astonishing level of power for any one person to have.

Equally astonishing, albeit in a very different way, is that this is the first time in American history that our House of Representatives fired its Speaker. (The Senate has never yet done so.) Although there have been so very many scoundrels . . .