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Trudeau calls an election himself, he looses.
Trudeau waits until spring when CERB tax bills come due, he looses.
Trudeau goads the opposition into forcing an election, he wins.
Optics and timing are everything right now. Trudeau wants an election where he can blame the “evil conservatives” for putting voters lives at risk. He does not want to call it himself because the that same blame gets focused on him. And if there is no election, then we find out more about the WE charity, we get to see a spring budget, and CERB recipients find out that it’s taxable income.
That's literally how minority government work bud.
Guys, it's Trudeau who wants an election because he'd win a majority if it happened right now and his support is only going to erode as the pandemic drags on and as these investigations bring his WE corruption to light. He wants an election, but he has to get the opposition to trigger it because voters will punish whichever party makes them goes to the polls a year after the last election and in the middle of a pandemic. So Trudeau is trying to get the opposition to call the election, and so far the opposition isn't biting. It's a GOOD thing the NDP isn't taking the bait.
I think you're right but the counter point to that is the NDP are on pace for a majority gov in BC, the PC party in NB won a majority as well. Both early elections. The voters didn't seem to punish those 2 governments.
This is more of a "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation.
All of the opposition parties want to be more powerful and win more seats. If the stars align to where all the opposition parties stand to gain form an election, then and only then will they come together to call an election.
Good old Jughead. The Liberals were so gung-ho about an election that they didn't even bother to throw him a bone this time around yet he still backed down once the prospect of an election appeared.
He knows as well as the Liberals that he won't survive another shitty election performance and without a doubt, he is heading for an even worse performance than last year.
He could have had it all had he voted down the Throne Speech.
Now he's in an unenviable position of having prevented the anti-corruption committee from fully investigating the disgrace that was Trudeau's pandemic spending and can be blamed for that come the next election.
The mood of Canadians is going to turn at some point over the amount of money that was spent and the amount that was wasted. The CERB tax bill will be particularly annoying, but seeing how the deficit has more than doubled will be downright onerous.
Particularly when it becomes clear that we'll need new flat taxes to pay it along with austerity measures.
I'd say that becomes evident in the Spring.
If Jughead didn't want an election he could have always formed a coalition with the CPC and Bloc but 'he doesn't like conservatives' so that option wasn't attractive.
Instead he'll be sharing the blame for Justin's scandals while also being an NDP candidate at a time when Canadians are regretting recent government overspending.
He is completely inept.
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An election right after Trump wins re-election would be perfect for Trudeau to capitalize off of Trump hatred. That's how messed up Canada is. Trudeau can rally the left once the left sees Trump get re-elected.
That's exactly why Trudeau wants an election now and not later. He's never going to be higher in the polls than he is right now. It's all down hill from here for him, so he wants an election now while he's still in majority territory in the polls.
Trudeau could trigger an election right now if he wanted to. The government has the right to resign any time they want. But if he did that, he'd be the one forcing everyone back to the polls and in the middle of the pandemic, and that would likely cost him the election. So he's trying to trick the opposition into trigging the election so they can incur that penalty instead of the LPC being to blame.
That's the game that's being played right now. Good on the NDP for staying one step ahead.