Good. Let him pull the trigger. There's a penalty for the team that calls the early election, because people resent having to go through all of this more than once every four years.
In 2011, the Liberals assessed that they could beat the Conservatives in a general election, so they brought down the Harper minority gov't via confidence vote, called an election and got their asses handed to them. Harper came out of the election with a majority. Seems there's a fair amount of resentment that swing voters will take out on the team that makes them go to the polls again.
Oh, it's on. It's definitely on.
This will be the most ill-tempered Canadian election in history. Who even knows what will happen?
You know how the CERB payments are late? The government is giving people a taste of what happens if their payments stop.
CERB is done, but all of those tasty transition benefits they've been promising won't be enacted if the Throne Speech gets rejected by the House. Which will definitely happen.
Trudeau doesn't see a chance to remake the country right now. But he does see a chance to remake it if a quarter of the nation is facing eviction, losing their house and hitting the foodbanks and voting angry for his grand, progressive master-plan because that would make the bleeding stop.
By February at the earliest. Unless Trudeau was to promise to invoke the Emergencies act immediately to get the aid out, which would entail him getting a majority to happen (remember that his 2 years of infinite power ploy was thwarted by the other parties.)
That would grant him the power he desires. That would enabled him to remake the country in his image.
You have to give it to Trudeau, he's anticipating the second-wave lockdown and hoping to use it to gain infinite power.
This election is going to be crazy.
And his election promise will be vote for me to renew CERB.
Good. Let him pull the trigger. There's a penalty for the team that calls the early election, because people resent having to go through all of this more than once every four years.
In 2011, the Liberals assessed that they could beat the Conservatives in a general election, so they brought down the Harper minority gov't via confidence vote, called an election and got their asses handed to them. Harper came out of the election with a majority. Seems there's a fair amount of resentment that swing voters will take out on the team that makes them go to the polls again.
Likewise if Bloc + CPC + NDP force an early election this fall, voters may punish those parties since "it's a pandemic".
Yup. It'll be interesting to see which side pulls the trigger.
Oh, it's on. It's definitely on.
This will be the most ill-tempered Canadian election in history. Who even knows what will happen?
You know how the CERB payments are late? The government is giving people a taste of what happens if their payments stop.
CERB is done, but all of those tasty transition benefits they've been promising won't be enacted if the Throne Speech gets rejected by the House. Which will definitely happen.
Trudeau doesn't see a chance to remake the country right now. But he does see a chance to remake it if a quarter of the nation is facing eviction, losing their house and hitting the foodbanks and voting angry for his grand, progressive master-plan because that would make the bleeding stop.
By February at the earliest. Unless Trudeau was to promise to invoke the Emergencies act immediately to get the aid out, which would entail him getting a majority to happen (remember that his 2 years of infinite power ploy was thwarted by the other parties.)
That would grant him the power he desires. That would enabled him to remake the country in his image.
You have to give it to Trudeau, he's anticipating the second-wave lockdown and hoping to use it to gain infinite power.
This election is going to be crazy.
I wonder how many Liberal supporters / bullet catchers Trudeau will pack around him this time, to insulate him from all the threats to his person.