That's up to the CPC.
Carney said a byelection should be held as quickly as possible to give Poilievre an opportunity to win a seat in the House of Commons, if that’s what the Conservative Party wants.
Carney's message is that he's not interested in playing Parliamentary games. I'm not convinced it's a good idea, but it's an interesting move.
No sitting PM wants to be seen spending millions on "their" house, and costs have skyrocketed thanks to decades of neglect.
On top of that, the house itself doesn't really meet the needs of the role, and both the house and grounds are considered inadequate from a security perspective.
That is definitely an assumption you could make.
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and blame a technical glitch, and totally not human error.
Fixed.
politics favors short-term thinking
So does biology. Immediate gratification wins out over delayed gratification almost every single time.
It's so weird to hear it referred to as "Netflix series" in the American trades...
In any case, I've been meaning to check it out. The buzz has been positive, and CBC has been promoting the hell out of it.
These are strange times indeed.
This election was so weird in so many ways, I think it will be some time before we fully understand what it all means.
It's a weird situation. Like it or not, Polievre just achieved the highest Conservative vote share since the 1980s.
That he still lost is astonishing, and it'll be a while before anyone can sort out the path forward.
But I suspect they'll keep him around.
Yeah, they'll probably just parachute him into an Alberta riding. We're not rid of him yet.
A few scattered thoughts on this:
The NDP are leaderless, and are therefore agendaless until they can get organized again.
They're also probably broke, and in no position to fight another election.
While they certainly hold a good position in the new HoC, there's bound to be some introspection about how that worked out for them last time.
It's probably another move to distance himself from Trudeau's choices.