A parliamentary report
At first glance, it looks like Justin Trudeau resigned as prime minister. That’s the big headline. And looking at the sad faces on the CBC, you’d think it was a funeral.
But it’s not true. Trudeau is still the prime minister. And he will be for many months to come.
If you listen carefully to what he said, he’ll resign only after the Liberal Party elects its new leader. But that could be many months in the future.
And, to make sure no-one kicks him out, he’s convinced the Governor General to “prorogue” Parliament — that means all Parliamentary business is suspended. No debates, no votes, no question period. All pending legislation is vapourized. Trudeau escapes any scrutiny or accountability.
Most importantly, MPs won’t be able to vote non-confidence in him.
He’s at 16% in the polls, his own MPs despise him, but he says he’s going to hang on to power and all the perks of being prime minister as long as he can.
Even when Parliament comes back on March 24th, he didn’t say he’d resign then.
He’s still probably scheming with the NDP to get them to prop him up, as they always do.
In other words, nothing has actually changed, other than Trudeau has managed to avoid taking responsibility, yet again. (In his self-serving speech today, he didn’t take any responsibility. He blamed “internal battles” in his own party. He thinks he’s done nothing wrong — ever.)
But he’s not done. In fact, expect a flurry of activity. Trudeau will be appointing every crony, every pal, every donor to lucrative patronage positions. He’ll be signing massive sole-source contracts to friends. Passing insane executive orders. He’s going to raid the treasury like never before. And he’ll shred incriminating documents and delete emails like Hillary Clinton on speed.
But there’s something else that’s dangerous: the Liberal Party’s shocking membership rules allow foreign citizens, and teenagers as young as 14, to vote to choose the new leader. That’s how the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated 11 different ridings in the last election. And I just saw a prominent Hamas supporter, Mohamed Fakih, ordering his troops to sign up to the Liberal Party en masse.
It’s disgusting that foreign activists will be able to pick our prime minister before the rest of us are allowed to exercise our rights as citizens in an election.
The entire country is being put second while Trudeau puts himself and his Liberal cronies first.
What a disgrace. And it’s absolutely damaging to Canada. All of this is happening just days before Donald Trump is sworn in as president. Trump has threatened massive tariffs against Canada if we don’t strengthen our border to stop illegal drugs and migrants from entering the U.S.
We have a pm with no mandate, no public support and no Parliament. Trudeau and Trump hate each other. We’re in trouble.
Don’t celebrate yet!! This is not a victory for Canada, it’s just another tactic.
NN
