Juno News - November 13, 2019Conservative MP wants quick takedown of Liberal minority
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Justin Trudeau re-elected, albeit with a minority mandate, which means to get through all of the policies he wants to get across, he needs buy-in from another party. In a minority government, the Conservative Party of Canada and the Conservative caucus in the House of Commons will be the official opposition. What can the Conservatives do in a minority parliament?
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just what is it that the conservative party of canada and the conservative
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caucus in the house of commons can do in a minority parliament this is the situation
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in which we find ourselves now justin trudeau re-elected albeit with a minority mandate
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instead of a majority mandate meaning to get through all of the policies he wants to get
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through he needs buy-in from another party now one of the realistic presumptions that people on the
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right make is that all of the left-wing parties the ndp the liberals the bloc quebecois the greens
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they'll all band together and the conservatives are kind of screwed but the reality is a little
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bit more complex than that certainly on the big spending items it's realistic to assume that the
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ndp which is a socialist party is going to back socialist style spending but when it comes to
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other matters that are likely to come up before there is a little bit of a development that may
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benefit the conservatives and that is that the liberals no longer comprise the majority
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on committees the opposition parties do remember the funny business we saw in the last parliament
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during the snc lavalin investigation for example when the liberal majority on the justice committee
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banded together to block jody wilson raybold from coming back to testify again well that couldn't
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happen if the opposition parties banded together themselves and decided they were going to take
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charge i spoke about this with alberta conservative mp arnold vierson asking the question of basically
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what the conservatives can do and plan to do in a minority government situation as official opposition
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here's what he had to say we now have like total control of the committee work uh so where we were
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before had to just like roll over and die because there was nothing we could do in a majority vote
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situation now if we can get the other people on side with the block and the ndp we'll be able to
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control the tables at the at the committee uh and be able to stop things that we don't like euthanasia is
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coming back for a review that's going to be a really big one uh working working around that uh pipeline
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politics is always going to be a big thing c69 will bring that back i'm sure uh snc lavalin investigations
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those kinds of things that's going to be what we'll be able to bring back uh because uh things
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that we can find unity with the other parties on uh provincial jurisdiction stuff that kind of thing
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you can imagine we can we can bring those things back to committee and run the table on it there's
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no denying that people are unhappy and in many cases angry with justin trudeau in power again the fact
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that it is a minority government situation gives people a little bit of hope that it's not going to
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be a four-year term if they're trying to get him out as soon as possible but i asked arnold that
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very question here's what arnold had to say is the goal basically to in a minority situation bring
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the government down as quickly as possible at the earliest opportunity that's my my perception of it
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for sure i i know that albertans are are looking for uh they're looking for their way into this and
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in order to do that we need to ensure that we we take over the rest of the country and if
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conservatism is born in alberta we got to bring it to the rest of the country a conservative mp is
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saying basically that the conservative caucus is going to have very little tolerance for this
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government and if an opportunity comes to trigger the downfall of that government they're going to