Nothing says democracy like ignoring the will of the people.
Appalling, craven, cowardly, and pathetic hubris on the part of PeePee and conservative sycophants. A deep shame on rural Alberta for being such uncritical lemmings.
They haven’t voted yet. I, for one, am not holding my breath, but maybe there will be a silver lining of hope that he doesn’t get elected, especially if an independent runs against him. Now, to get the independent candidate riled up and in place. I have a vivid imagination. Lol
They are going to simp so hard for him. But I hope Maxime Bernier (PPC) runs as well as Blake Desjarlais (NDP) and the Longest Ballot as well. But I have zero faith in rural Albertans who have been mainlining right-wing apologia for decades.
The same people think that kids are using cat litter in schools to go to the bathroom.
IDK anything about Canadian politics.
Didn’t this guy just preside over a pretty epic loss? Why does his party still want him?
Similar thing just happened here in Australia. Leader of the party lost his seat. Even if he hadn’t he would probably resign in shame because he’s really made a mess of things.
Yes. His own party should boot him as leader.
The in fighting hasn’t begun yet.
We have experienced a very strange situation where the cons (unfortunately) fared far better than it ever did in its modern iteration while losing its momentous advantage, meaning that there is still somewhat of a reason for Poilièvre to stay in the race. He is also very arrogant, so he will not back down easily.
Thanks. That’s helpful.
What a chud
Shouldn’t there be some kind of election to fill the seat the politician resigned from? Otherwise, they could just have supermodels with masters degrees running for office, then resigning so a Nazi with a beer belly and a GED can take over.
There will be a by-election and I’m sure someone will run against him from another party, but it’s a very conservative riding, so he’ll probably win pretty easy. But it would be the funniest thing ever if somehow he did manage to loose.
A VERY conservative riding. Voted 90% conservative.
American here. Can someone explain why Carney won’t be seeking NDP support?
He probably will but it will be on an issue by issue basis. Carney only needs three votes from any of the Bloc Québécois or the NDP to pass anything. He can pull from either party.
To form an alliance you mean? The Bloc Quebecois already said they’ll be quiet for the next year as there’s lots to do, having two parties to work with means you don’t necessarily need to always bend the same way so it’s advantageous to leave the door open to sometimes compromise left and sometimes compromise in favour of what Quebec wants…
Political parties should just standby the morals and principles they try to uphold.
If they align together, great they can both vote yes. If they don’t then they don’t. Pandering to other parties to get their vote just gets in the way of what you are actually trying to achieve.
That’s my take anyways
The tend to make agreements on cooperation as a part of the partnership. A smaller party can trade up, gaining roles in the government, or concessions on certain policies.
And do you think that’s conclusive to a well functioning government?
To me that just leads to corruption, incentivizing self severing interest.
Is it within parliamentary procedure to address him as the former member from Ottawa-Carleton?
So I’m guessing Alberta is Canada’s version of Alabama?
Probably closer to Texas, since we have a bunch of oil.
Ah. I see.
Actual beta male
Are there not residency requirements?
Nope
Man that seems so Twisted to me. How can you represent people you don’t spend any time around? How can you claim to know their needs if you don’t even live among them?
I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.
My riding decided to elect someone who lives two cities away, so I guess not at the local level at least
Nobody respects you Milhouse
Imagine if he fails to be elected again in the partials
82% in favour of conservatives during the last election but Carney can wait 6 months to launch the by-election, that might be long enough to piss off some conservatives that might want to get rid of PP.
He says he won’t wait and will call the by-election right away.
It’s bonkers, and certainly PP would never do such a thing in return, but not doing it would just lead to 6 months of "Carney is a coward who won’t let me in because I am always right and he hates that.
This snowflake is going to get treated with kid gloves over and over, and he isn’t going to learn a thing, will never return the courtesy, and continue to drag Canada and Canadians down as he goes.
He’ll win, the only reason he’s coming to Alberta is because it’s a slam dunk.
That was quicker than I expected.
I for one didn’t expect someone to resign this quickly.
PP has Mr. Kurek to thank. Some of you will understand this statement differently than others. 😂
This isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened, provincially or federally, and it tends to be resolved pretty quickly. The same thing happened when Trudeau took leadership, for reference. Now, certainly this happens a lot less often when a party leader loses in a riding he previously held, but the mechanics are the same. Get a new leader, have a leader who can’t vote or perhaps speak in Parliament, or have a by-election in a safe riding.
Can you expand on that thing about when Trudeau took leadership, or link to an article, I’m not sure I remember this situation.
My bad, he was in fact elected in a general election, although there were rumors about him running in a by-election shortly before that, and all of that was before he was even leadervof the Liberals. I honestly, don’t remember anything about him in politics prior to leading the Liberals except that half-remembered by-election tidbit.
Another relevant example would be when Preston Manning resigned and Stephen Harper ran in his riding after being newly chosen to lead the Conservatives. There were a number of reasons for that to happen, and a bit of political maneuvering to have them all happen at the same time.
Thanks.
Yeah I understand why these manuvres are used, and sometimes would benefit democracy.
In this case PP was shown the door by his own riding, I think that either shows: a) the people do not want him in office, in which case this is just sidestepping democracy, or b) the conservatives failed to place their own leader in a "safe"enough riding, which shows a clear problem with that parties management, lead by PP, in which case he should probably move along as well.
I’ve said elsewhere there were only 3 real options available to them, and this was one of them. The fact of the matter is, the leader of the Conservative Party is chosen by Conservatives and he gets elected by a riding, and those are two different things. Now, if the people in this new riding think he should be gone, then he most likely will be, both from that riding and the party. And if Conservatives in general think this was the wrong choice for the party, we will see the results of that in the next general election if not sooner.
Now, I’m not saying I disagree with your assessment, and I personally think the Conservatives made the wrong choice (not surprising, I didn’t vote for them), but these are the choices we’ve established in our system. Perhaps this is one that should be changed, perhaps not.
