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Old 01-07-2025, 06:37 PM   #16
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I didn't mean anything by my comment, @Hitest. I'm an American, after all.
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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.
You perceived it 100% correctly. I agree. It is indeed a vast amount of power afforded to the PM.

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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 . . .
I agree. That was a very surprising event!
 
Old 01-07-2025, 08:38 PM   #17
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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?
Canadians did vote for Kim, but she didn't last.
 
  


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