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On 12/20/2024 at 7:49 PM, CdnFox said:

Not this winter probably. I would guess that justin will push that back to march and run on a budget.  Shouldn't be hard to do. He would just ahve to prorogue parliament by 1 month or so, it's not like you can call for a non confidence vote every day

Justin doesn't decide when the next election is because if he could it would be next Oct.

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1 hour ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Justin doesn't decide when the next election is because if he could it would be next Oct.

This really isn't complicated. I understand that they don't teach a lot about how parliament works in school these days so I'll go through it but he does actually have a great deal of control over that.

In order to bring the government down, there must be a vote of no confidence. In other words there has to be a vote and more than 50% of the votes must say that the parliament has no confidence in the government. Without that vote nothing changes.

The house can only vote on things when it's in session. To about 99% the prime minister controls when the house is going to be in session. Justin can choose to prorogue parliament and then it's not in session even when it was supposed to be. Which means there can be no vote.

Additionally, votes can't just happen whenever anyone feels like it. There are specific days and times when emotion of confidence can be put forward. There are laws about how many such days per session must be included, but setting them tends to be at the discretion of the government. So he can delay those a long time. Again no vote nothing changes.

About the biggest stumbling Blocked he would have would be the budget. He can delay the budget a while, but eventually the government would run out of money. The budget is always a confidence vote so if the parties showed up and voted down the budget there would be an immediate election. Challenge is he may delay that till into may if he wants.  And there's other tricks too 

So as you can see justin does have a number of tools to delay an election even as far as the fall if he really wanted to.  Ceranly it would be simple to go to march or april. 

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

  • 1 month later...
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Now it seems he feels like he can work with the new lib leader, to help Canadians. Lol 

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