Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

[Good2Golf]

You are right, I misspoke, but all business is suspended, including committees. I don't know how that impacts inquiries. In the words of the HoC website,

“Members are released from their parliamentary duties until Parliament is next summoned. All unfinished business is dropped from or “dies” on the Order Paper and all committees lose their power to transact business, providing a fresh start for the next session.“

…buuuuuuut, CRA still plans on raising capital gains taxes based on ‘Parliamentary convention’… they’re trying to make up for lost productivity of their 60,000 agents…

 

[ModlrMike]

You know someone's going to take this to court.

 

[lenaitch]

You know someone's going to take this to court.

Absolutely. Issuing letters and forms in anticipation is one thing but that should be a pretty easy win if someone actually gets assessed.

According to the NP;

The finance department says parliamentary convention dictates that taxation proposals such as the capital gains taxation measures that the Liberals introduced last year are effective as soon as the government introduces them in the house.

I suspect, if it comes to court, it will take a more formal view.

 

[Good2Golf]

I’d love to know where the ‘parliamentary convention’ is codified?

Sounds like bureaucratic bafflegarb…

 

[lenaitch]

I sure hope there is a legal challenge to this prorogation, parliament resumes, and a non-confidence vote occurs, with election asap. The country cannot be shut down because the LPC are inconvenienced of their own making.

Well, there ya go.

Two men file unprecedented legal challenge against Trudeau's request for prorogation

A legal advocacy group is spearheading the unprecedented challenge, asking a Federal Court to cancel the 'incorrect and unreasonable' demand

nationalpost.com

 

[brihard]

Well, there ya go.

Two men file unprecedented legal challenge against Trudeau's request for prorogation

A legal advocacy group is spearheading the unprecedented challenge, asking a Federal Court to cancel the 'incorrect and unreasonable' demand

nationalpost.com

Yup, first will be to see how the Federal Court schedules it and what sort of timeline they order for briefings.

 

[Good2Golf]

Well, there ya go.

Two men file unprecedented legal challenge against Trudeau's request for prorogation

A legal advocacy group is spearheading the unprecedented challenge, asking a Federal Court to cancel the 'incorrect and unreasonable' demand

nationalpost.com

…

“We can add to this the fact that the PM has retained the confidence of the House of Commons, as evidenced by a series of votes before the House rose for the holiday period. It is not surprising that the Governor General acceded to his prorogation advice in these circumstances,” he wrote on his blog.

This portion of the statement by Canadian constitutional experts seems to be at odds with statements from the Leader of Opposition and the Leader of the NDP most recently, although one might note that they (Poilievre and Singh) stated as such after the PM sought the GG’s approval to prorogue…

Still, not a good look on the near fortieth of a decade that Parliament will be frozen in proroguation while His Nibs works his cunning plan.

 

[OldSolduer]

I’d love to know where the ‘parliamentary convention’ is codified?

Sounds like bureaucratic bafflegarb…

Liberal Party dominated bureaucracy that inhabits the PS I would say. I hope some of them take an "early retirement" soon - and don't let the door hit them on the ass on the way out.

 

[Maxman1]

Trump says a lot of things he has no power to bring into being. Not worth losing sleep over.

It's h9w he's negotiated for decades. He even wrote a book about it.

 

[daftandbarmy]

It's h9w he's negotiated for decades. He even wrote a book about it.

“Good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”

― Donald J. Trump

 

[Furniture]

Liberal Party dominated bureaucracy that inhabits the PS I would say. I hope some of them take an "early retirement" soon - and don't let the door hit them on the ass on the way out.

I don't believe in a "deep state" conspiracy... That said, I believe there are very partisan senior civil servants that try to use their positions to block policy they disagree with. I've seen it in various forms in the CAF, so there is zero reason to believe it doesn't exist in the broader PS.

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Next Liberal Leader

 

[ArmyRick]

They really want to get spammed by LPC emails and texts.

I get spammed by the LPC and I am a CPC member, so what the hell.

 

[lenaitch]

Yup, first will be to see how the Federal Court schedules it and what sort of timeline they order for briefings.

The filings aren't readily available online but unless they are asking for some kind of injunction, or unless the Federal Court > Federal Court of Appeal > Supreme Court hustle this along, the whole argument could become moot.

…

This portion of the statement by Canadian constitutional experts seems to be at odds with statements from the Leader of Opposition and the Leader of the NDP most recently, although one might note that they (Poilievre and Singh) stated as such after the PM sought the GG’s approval to prorogue…

No doubt the academics are considering the actions of the House vs. the words in the media.

 

[lenaitch]

I don't believe in a "deep state" conspiracy... That said, I believe there are very partisan senior civil servants that try to use their positions to block policy they disagree with. I've seen it in various forms in the CAF, so there is zero reason to believe it doesn't exist in the broader PS.

Plus the CRA often thinks they are their own world.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Next Liberal Leader

Hahaha could you imagine the Liberal heads exploding over this lol

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Hahaha could you imagine the Liberal heads exploding over this lol

He does have Canadian Citizenship

 

[Quirky]

Hahaha could you imagine the Liberal heads exploding over this lol

Reddit would have a meltdown. They're already losing their minds over every Trump tweet.

 

[Czech_pivo]

He does have Canadian Citizenship

He does from what I've read.

 

[Good2Golf]

He does from what I've read.

His son X Æ A-Xii and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl by ex-wife Grimes, are also Canadian citizens.