Canadian Politics

[Ishmael]

That is quite the burn coming from JT.
Although he was a drama teacher, his elecution is terrible.

There are several words that seem to be misspelled in the tweet. "Have you ever heard her speak?" looks more better to me.

 

[Rain Man]

That is quite the burn coming from JT.
Although he was a drama teacher, his elecution elocution is terrible.

FIFY

 

[Tax Man]

Just catching up to Ottawa's governance model.

Laws mean what we want them to mean
Regulations are as good as legislation

Add in a couple of gotcha's buried in omnibus bills and they will almost be there.

 

[SloopJonB]

That is quite the burn coming from JT.
Although he was a drama teacher, his elecution is terrible.

His elocution is due to a lifelong speech impediment that he has mostly conquered.

I imagine having Pierre for a father, not to mention Maggie for a mother would give most kids a speech impediment.

 

[Gong Show]

I did not know he had a speech impediment.
That is respectable that he chose politics and to put himself in the firing line with a speech impediment.

 

[Ishmael]

I did not know he had a speech impediment.
That is respectable that he chose politics and to put himself in the firing line with a speech impediment.

He says himself he was "born to do this". I think it was inevitable, short of him moving to Papua/New Guinea and going bush.

 

[Gong Show]

That would make sense, since he has that messianic method of leadership.

I am drawing a blank on successful familial leaders of government.
And by success, I would not measure that by simply winning elections.

 

[Tax Man]

That would make sense, since he has that messianic method of leadership.

I am drawing a blank on successful familial leaders of government.
And by success, I would not measure that by simply winning elections.

William Pitt the Younger

 

[Gong Show]

The wiki on Pitt the Younger is intriguing enough to dive deeper.
Thank you!

 

[Zonker]

Bush the Younger

 

[Gong Show]

Sounds a lot more appealing than Bush the Elder.

Little Potato does have a nice ring to it though.

 

[Ishmael]

Sounds a lot more appealing than Bush the Elder.

Little Potato does have a nice ring to it though.

Kleine kartoffel.

Mr. Harder, my grade 11 German Teacher, thanks you.

 

[Ishmael]

Well, what a surprise. Danielle Smith's new policy paper essentially makes her a dictator. Classic libertarian bullshit.

“What Danielle Smith is advancing,” said political scientist Emmett Macfarlane of the University of Waterloo, “is an unconstitutional affront to the separation of powers, the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, the powers of the (lieutenant governor), and democracy itself. It cannot stand.”


In other words, Dr. Macfarlane continued bluntly in one of many tweets on the topic after the release of the legislation, it is “perhaps the most blatantly unconstitutional pile of crap ever introduced in a legislature in modern Canadian history.”

https://albertapolitics.ca/2022/11/albertas-blatantly-unconstitutional-sovereignty-act-would-let-ministers-rule-by-decree/

 

[spankoka]

True, this is similar to what Higgs tried on account of Covid-but the pushback in Fredericton was hard. There is nothing Westminster system about it in either case.

 

[SloopJonB]

She has 6 months - I can't see her winning the election.

Alberta is pretty fucking right wing but they ain't like Floriduh.

 

[Ishmael]

She has 6 months - I can't see her winning the election.

Alberta is pretty fucking right wing but they ain't like Floriduh.

When she loses, will she cry "Rigged!"? Is she really MTG's dumber sister?

 

[SloopJonB]

Now that is harsh.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

? how is "this" version of "ruling by decree" different to what JT has been doing since the truckers ?

 

[SloopJonB]

You obviously have no comprehension of how Parliamentary democracy works.

JT has a lot less power than the POTUS.

 

[Gong Show]

A majority government in the Canadian Westminster model of government, be it provincial, except Quebec, or federal, confers almost dictatorial amounts of power to the premier/prime minister.

Very few checks and balances, as we have seen lately with different provincial governments invoking the notwithstanding clause before bringing legislation into force.