Posted on 02/05/2022 5:34:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In the wake of the recent Truckers Convoy, Canadians have been peppering Governor General Mary Simon's office with calls to dissolve our federal government, and to remove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from office.
As reported in the National Post, "Rideau Hall’s call centre normally receives between 25 to 50 calls a day. Since the truckers convoy began the number has exploded, with more than 1,500 on Wednesday and over 4,600 at one point in the afternoon on Thursday."
It's an unprecedented development in what has become an unprecedented society. The vehemence by which a segment of our population want Justin Trudeau gone has fired-up to white hot levels. The situation belies a deep-rooted fragmentation in society.
There exists two distinct factions: one found in government's doghouse, one venerated as the apogee of our country. The former are the loathsome. These are the protestor-types. Largely comprised of "Old Stock" Canadians, these people are being transitioned by government and media into social outcasts.
The "in-crowd" are a different breed. These folks are venerated by government and media. Their numbers consist of woke white Liberals and Trudeau's preferred 3rd World migrant communities. Regarding the request to show Mr. Trudeau the door, there is-- no surprise-- good news for the neo-chosen:
"The protesters’ calling campaign is all for naught as there is no way the Governor General could ever acquiesce to any of their demands," says Daniel Béland, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
“The Governor General cannot just decide to fire the prime minister like that,” Béland said. Correct he is. Though it is not a question of caving in to demands of the protesters. It is a matter of government policy regardless of who made these demands.
"In Canada, a vote of no confidence is a motion that the legislature disapproves and no longer consents to the governing Prime Minister and the incumbent Cabinet. A vote of no confidence that passes leads to the fall of the incumbent government."
"If a vote of no confidence passes, the Prime Minister is required to submit his or her resignation to the Governor General of Canada, who may either invite the leader of another coalition/party to attempt to form a new government in the House of Commons, or dissolve Parliament and call a general election."
There is no mechanism in Canada for citizens to remove a sitting prime minister. For a maximum of four years, the status of a PM is subject only to the House of Commons.
On the topic of public influence, times have certainly changed. New arrivals to Canada may not realize it, but there was a time when "the will of the majority" had an influence on government. In terms of the pace of transformation, one might believe this existed somewhere between the Neolithic age, and the rise of Cro-Magnon man.
Right - the Queen / Governor-General can do that but the government would have probably have to be in a state of total chaos / collapse before a move like that would have popular support.
It was done in Australia in 1975.
Right, his party did not win the “national popular vote” - but they are in charge. Because, of course, they are separate district elections that have nothing to do with other, just like our separate state elections for electing president.
You don’t hear the Left crowing about this supposed “affront to democracy” since it one of their own that is in charge.
The last time a Governor General in a Westminster system removed a sitting PM was in Australia, in, I believe, 1975.
It caused a major constitutional crisis, which ended up with people saying it could never happen again.
The ability of the Governor General of Canada (or, I suppose, the Queen) to remove the PM exists in theory only.
The protesters have no choice any more.
If they stop with Trudeau still in power, they will be hunted down at leisure and their lives ruined, like the Jan 6 protesters. The political class will feel a need to make examples of them
As Machiavelli said, “Do not do your enemy a small injury”. They need to leave the political class afraid to piss them off again.
As Machiavelli said, “Do not do your enemy a small injury”.
***That’s pretty insightful, almost tagline worthy. I’ll update the tagline page.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992415/posts?q=1&;page=345#345
A more complete quote
“Never do any enemy a small injury for they are like a snake which is half beaten and it will strike back the first chance it gets.” From “The Prince”, chapter 3
Another
Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolò Machiavelli
There isn’t one.
Canadians whiffed on their golden opportunity to remove Justin when they recently reelected him. They chose poorly.
Dominion Voting Systems is a Canadian company.
Just saying.
Create a list of which truckers will be running for office for the next few years. And who will run for Pete TrueDope's office.
Create a list of which truckers will be running for office for the next few years. And who will run for Pete TrueDope's office.
The governor general is answerable to the queen of England. What if the queen says “Off with his head?” She must be feeling nostalgic, after seventy years on the throne.
Meaning who will run for the Canadian Parliament in TruDope’s constituency. In almost all if not all parliamentary systems there is no direct election for PM.
She does as she's told.
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