What does it say about Canada that the only time we have had a female Prime Minister...

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@cjgyt i just listened to her fumble around in an interview with CBC as they questioned her about wherher she had a CPC membership or not and they caught her contradicting herself at which point she blamed the CPC for potentially "fabricating" something.

So this is going to be a BLAST
(interviews airs on the House tomorrow)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@Geoffberner

Astrobach :breadified:

@Geoffberner @chris when I heard her name dropped I was like "the woman who lost so hard it killed the BC liberals?"

Leroy

@Geoffberner @chris could it be a safety pick for whomever is behind it? In case conservatives don’t get majority, they could form a minority government with someone who is no different.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@rorystarr @Geoffberner lol!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@leroy @Geoffberner I honestly think she is going to win because she will be a sacrificial lamb so that the 'real’ future leaders that actually want to govern can run in a leadership race in 2-3 years.

Christopher Griffiths

@chris Let’s hope the leadership cupboard isn’t so bare that this is what they end up with. I’d be happier with an inflatable waiving arm tube thingy in that case. At least that could be entertaining in a debate and it wouldn’t be an unreliable narrator about its own history.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@cjgyt lol!

Leroy

@chris @Geoffberner that’s unfortunate. I feel even the sacrificial position will signal party direction intentions

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@leroy @Geoffberner the lurch to the right will be significant

Leroy

@chris @Geoffberner I never know if my tendency to hope is a good or bad trait

Ellen Cornelis

@chris thanks for taking the time to write this out.

So since there is a leadership race for the liberal party, he's still ad interim leader until that election.

I didn't know the parliament is in suspension. This seems strange to me. I would think that the current parliament can try to form a new government with a majority in the given parliament.

Stéphanie

@e_cornelis The Liberals have a minority and no other party wants to support them right now. So everything was stalled anyways. It's better to suspend everything, and then we'll have an election @chris

Ellen Cornelis

@stephanie @chris Belgium is currently also without government since June's elections, but here the old one needs to continue "current affairs" (no major decisions allowed). Is that the same in Canada?

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@e_cornelis @stephanie we do have a government in power still, as Trudeau did not resign or call an election. So we're not even in a 'caretaker' government which would be what happens during an election before a new government is sworn in. The only thing that’s not happening rihgt now is business within Parliament (House or Senate)

Ellen Cornelis

@chris @stephanie oh wow that's even more confusing to me. A government only has "power" if it is supported and represents a majority in parliament. But your parliament is suspended yet the government is functioning. Interesting.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@e_cornelis @stephanie that's right. In our system a parliament can be suspended (prorogued) for a short time where no business happens. As there hasn't been a vote of confidence to 'test the confidence' of the House, the government continues in power.

The reason the parliament suspension is ending at the end of March is because there has to be a vote on a budget at that time. That vote is a vote of confidence.

The expectation is the vote will fail and at that time we'll go into an election (and caretaker government), or the new leader of the Liberals will call an election before that vote of confidence happens (just to avoid the indignity)