Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Tradition demands that a newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons is “dragged” unwillingly to the chair because it is such a thankless position.

In olden days, the Speaker would have to communicate the wishes of the British House of Commons to kings and queens who if they didn’t like what they heard still had the power to have heads chopped off.

The tools of the Speaker, therefore, are tact and diplomacy. And when they fail, more tact and more diplomacy.

After more than a decade of jurisdictional squabbling, political grandstanding, activist obstructionism, legal wrangling and bureaucratic delays, the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion gained final approval earlier this week and began shipping oil on Wednesday.

In days like these, it is useful to remember that there have always been days like these.

Question period may have needed a “viewer discretion advised” warning on Tuesday, when Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre was ejected from the House of Commons and his caucus followed him out of the door.

But anyone who talks about “a new low” in parliamentary behaviour has forgotten their history.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget was aimed at making Canadians feel better about their future, but it appears to have made them feel worse about his government, a new poll suggests.

The latest Abacus Data survey sought to gauge whether and how the Liberals’ latest budget landed with Canadians at a time when the governing party is trailing badly in the polls — which the survey found is still the case.

As the chatter about the need for Justin Trudeau to retire (for the sake of the country) rises to heights heretofore unknown in any political debate in history, many Canadians question why either the Liberal MPs, or the Liberal Party itself, cannot do something.

Primarily, it must be acknowledged that it is far better to be in power, with all its perks, than in opposition, so why call an election before you absolutely have to?

h/t Mauser

The man who once called a cabinet minister a “piece of sh**” is leading a parade of outrage that someone called him and his policies “wacko.”

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost no time in fundraising off Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre being ejected from the House of Commons over Tuesday’s events.

With Ottawa’s political class still reeling from Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre’s use of the unparliamentary moniker “wacko” in reference to Justin Trudeau on Tuesday — a slight that led to Poilievre getting ejected from the House of Commons by Speaker Greg Fergus — it’s worth taking a closer look at the prime minister’s rather eccentric behaviour of late.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, fighting for his political life, has been on the podcast circuit lately. In a series of streaming interviews in Canada and the U.S., Trudeau’s message has been the same: Canadians are under the sway of dangerous populism. Voters are ignoring the experts, in whom he has put so much faith, which is putting Canada’s future in peril.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he does not regret calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “wacko,” and now his MPs are renewing calls for the House of Commons Speaker to resign, this time over ordering the Official Opposition leader to leave the chamber.

On Tuesday, Poilievre was kicked out of the House(opens in a new tab) by Speaker Greg Fergus, after repeatedly refusing to withdraw his remark, made in the context of Trudeau’s policy on hard drug decriminalization and amid a series of heated exchanges between the two leaders that saw Trudeau accuse his opponent of being “spineless.”