Juno News - Conservative MP wants quick takedown of Liberal minority

00:00:00.000 just what is it that the conservative party of canada and the conservative

00:00:08.640 caucus in the house of commons can do in a minority parliament this is the situation

00:00:13.760 in which we find ourselves now justin trudeau re-elected albeit with a minority mandate

00:00:19.040 instead of a majority mandate meaning to get through all of the policies he wants to get

00:00:24.000 through he needs buy-in from another party now one of the realistic presumptions that people on the

00:00:30.480 right make is that all of the left-wing parties the ndp the liberals the bloc quebecois the greens

00:00:36.000 they'll all band together and the conservatives are kind of screwed but the reality is a little

00:00:40.880 bit more complex than that certainly on the big spending items it's realistic to assume that the

00:00:46.720 ndp which is a socialist party is going to back socialist style spending but when it comes to

00:00:52.720 other matters that are likely to come up before there is a little bit of a development that may

00:00:57.760 benefit the conservatives and that is that the liberals no longer comprise the majority

00:01:03.360 on committees the opposition parties do remember the funny business we saw in the last parliament

00:01:09.840 during the snc lavalin investigation for example when the liberal majority on the justice committee

00:01:15.600 banded together to block jody wilson raybold from coming back to testify again well that couldn't

00:01:21.840 happen if the opposition parties banded together themselves and decided they were going to take

00:01:27.760 charge i spoke about this with alberta conservative mp arnold vierson asking the question of basically

00:01:33.440 what the conservatives can do and plan to do in a minority government situation as official opposition

00:01:39.840 here's what he had to say we now have like total control of the committee work uh so where we were

00:01:46.880 before had to just like roll over and die because there was nothing we could do in a majority vote

00:01:50.880 situation now if we can get the other people on side with the block and the ndp we'll be able to

00:01:56.160 control the tables at the at the committee uh and be able to stop things that we don't like euthanasia is

00:02:01.920 coming back for a review that's going to be a really big one uh working working around that uh pipeline

00:02:07.360 politics is always going to be a big thing c69 will bring that back i'm sure uh snc lavalin investigations

00:02:15.360 those kinds of things that's going to be what we'll be able to bring back uh because uh things

00:02:20.560 that we can find unity with the other parties on uh provincial jurisdiction stuff that kind of thing

00:02:26.240 you can imagine we can we can bring those things back to committee and run the table on it there's

00:02:31.280 no denying that people are unhappy and in many cases angry with justin trudeau in power again the fact

00:02:38.400 that it is a minority government situation gives people a little bit of hope that it's not going to

00:02:43.360 be a four-year term if they're trying to get him out as soon as possible but i asked arnold that

00:02:48.160 very question here's what arnold had to say is the goal basically to in a minority situation bring

00:02:53.520 the government down as quickly as possible at the earliest opportunity that's my my perception of it

00:02:59.200 for sure i i know that albertans are are looking for uh they're looking for their way into this and

00:03:05.120 in order to do that we need to ensure that we we take over the rest of the country and if

00:03:09.360 conservatism is born in alberta we got to bring it to the rest of the country a conservative mp is

00:03:14.960 saying basically that the conservative caucus is going to have very little tolerance for this

00:03:20.160 government and if an opportunity comes to trigger the downfall of that government they're going to

00:03:25.600 take it for true north i'm andrew lutton

Juno News - November 13, 2019