Two years into the Trudeau 2.0 Minority Term, which day will Justin call the election that only he wants?

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“The prime minister has said he's going to be leading the party in the next election,” he added. “I'm very excited about that.”
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LeBlanc — who serves as the minister of public safety, democratic institutions, and intergovernmental affairs — told CTV’s Questions Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday that Trudeau should “absolutely” remain as Liberal leader in the next election.
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Well that’s it . Trudeau will step aside for the good of the party but remain available to act as saviour in a couple of years .
 

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Numbers in Ontario swung back. But I can already see the playbook. 1.5 years of trying to make PP seem like he's a complete right wing wackadoodle and just like Trump. They no doubt feel this will scare the soft Liberal voters who voted for them last time back to their side. From what I have seen so far is that PP seems to do a better job of deflecting the insinuations than his predecessors (the ones after Harper). Let's see if he can keep it up.
 

Ron in Regina

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Numbers in Ontario swung back. But I can already see the playbook. 1.5 years of trying to make PP seem like he's a complete right wing wackadoodle and just like Trump. They no doubt feel this will scare the soft Liberal voters who voted for them last time back to their side. From what I have seen so far is that PP seems to do a better job of deflecting the insinuations than his predecessors (the ones after Harper). Let's see if he can keep it up.
After this weeks accusations & malarkey in the House of Commons, it didn’t seem to help Trudeau or harm Poilievre.
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Numbers in Ontario swung back. But I can already see the playbook. 1.5 years of trying to make PP seem like he's a complete right wing wackadoodle and just like Trump. They no doubt feel this will scare the soft Liberal voters who voted for them last time back to their side. From what I have seen so far is that PP seems to do a better job of deflecting the insinuations than his predecessors (the ones after Harper). Let's see if he can keep it up.
Poilivere gives Quebec an alternative they can support opposed to an Andrew Scheer they could not. It will be enough.

Liberal support will come from trade unions and public sector employees which is more than 30% and likely a higher voter participation number

NDP are becoming an ethnic based party with the most people of all to support them if they can just get them into the country.

Western Canada will hope for better but no one truly has their back.
 

Ron in Regina

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So…by law at the latest it can’t be any later than Oct 20th 2025…except the Liberals (with NDP backing…surprise-surprise) extending that to Oct 27th 2025 ‘cuz open obvious publicly flaunted graft…’cuz left…
1715743626888.jpegSo when can we expect a federal election? In theory at any time in a minority government situation except…that’s not what we have. Not by a long shot.
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What’re the odds the NDP wouldn’t support the Liberals in pushing the maximum length between federal elections from Oct 20th to the 27th 2025…& in turn remove the guarantee of a pension if the election was actually on the 20th for fully half of NDP MP’s….hmmmm….
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Asked about low poll numbers, Trudeau attacks Alberta's oil and gas sector, ‘cuz…
…’cuz trying to split the vote rich/poor or older/younger with their last budget didn’t work…
….so maybe they tried and true divisive split east/west might work again?
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…& here we are.
 

Ron in Regina

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No matter how decisive the Conservative mandate in the next election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quietly retains the unique power to severely obstruct the Tory agenda for years to come.

In fact, Trudeau may have already set in motion a scenario that could plunge Canada into an unending series of constitutional crises at the first sign of a new Tory government attempting to reverse the carbon tax, bail reform, the Online Streaming Act or any of the other signature Liberal policies of the last nine years.

And it’s all thanks to the Senate.

By the anticipated date of the 2025 federal election, only 10 to 15 members of the 105-seat Senate will be either Conservative or Conservative appointees. The rest will be Liberal appointees. As of this writing, 70 senators have been personally appointed by Trudeau, and he’ll likely have the opportunity to appoint another 12 before his term ends.
What this means is that no matter how strong the mandate of any future Conservative government, the Tory caucus will face a Liberal supermajority in the Senate with the power to gut or block any legislation sent their way.
1715825450107.jpegConstitutional scholars Howard Anglin and Ray Pennings envisioned a potential nightmare scenario in which the Senate casts themselves as “resisting” a Conservative government. Given that senators are all permanently appointed until their mandatory retirement at age 75, it would take at least 10 years until a Conservative government could rack up enough Senate appointments to overcome the Liberal-appointed majority.
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Somehow, this just isn’t surprising. Democracy…Smarocracy.
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