The Critical Compass Podcast - UNPRECEDENTED - Trudeau ＂Resigns＂ & Prorogues Parliament -- What Happens Next？

00:00:00.000 there's two moves so Trudeau first of all he announced that he's proroguing parliament and

00:00:06.440 and we'll I guess we'll come back to that but then the second thing he announced

00:00:09.620 is that he's he intends to resign um which is again why he didn't simply resign on the spot

00:00:19.720 and and I I think he should have just resigned on the spot and then and delegated to somebody else

00:00:26.340 they should have appointed an interim person I think they're making their life complicated

00:00:31.080 and in fact they're making their life really really complicated because um their constitution

00:00:36.240 their leadership uh race right now I don't think they can have a new leader in time for

00:00:42.140 the end of this prorogued period they won't have a new leader by March uh 27th well I think even the

00:00:48.540 way that he that he described why he was resigning was the the way he set it up was that so that he

00:00:54.820 didn't have to just say that we'll hand off the leadership because he he said that the whole

00:00:59.300 reason was because he couldn't carry on with all the infighting in the liberal party so just just to

00:01:04.940 make it seem like oh no like I'm fine the party is what needs to get its house in order right before

00:01:10.200 we can continue so I just pulled up on screen here how many times this has happened um so this is the

00:01:16.460 the the vote of no or motion of no confidence so it was 1926 1963 1974 1979 2005 2011 votes of no

00:01:26.460 confidence in 2005 and 2011 were the result of explicit confidence motions presented by the

00:01:33.100 opposition so just so we have that for for kind of clarity for whenever somebody loops back to watch

00:01:39.580 this and what I wanted to say is that this is where I think everything gets a bit confusing and

00:01:46.000 this is when you asked me about proroguing and I was like well what's the purpose non-confidence is

00:01:52.300 something different different too and I think in most normal cases we would have had either the

00:01:59.660 prime minister resign like we were saying or have a non-confidence vote and there were non-confidence

00:02:05.220 votes but the um Jagmeet Singh and his party were propping up the liberal party and what's

00:02:13.180 incredibly frustrating too is the liberal party themselves were propping up Justin Trudeau so

00:02:19.780 they led to their own demise in a normal state of affairs this would have already happened at one of

00:02:28.000 the earlier non-confident motion confidence motions somebody would have said there's a lot of internal

00:02:33.920 strife but they the liberal party and the NDP party I think did this to themselves and now they're all

00:02:40.480 trying to like they're surprised that this is what Justin is doing I totally can um understand that this is

00:02:47.400 what he's doing and Mike just said it too is one of the first things I heard him say is I've we've got a

00:02:53.960 lot of internal problems okay so you don't stop all of government is you deal with that matter

00:03:01.000 on your own and that's not an issue for Canada to be dealing with and that's why all of this is

00:03:07.020 incredibly I think there's a definitely a good chance on a legal challenge because this the purpose

00:03:14.660 of the prorogation is not a little reset this is for some their own purposes and that's not what it's

00:03:22.140 for if they hadn't if he hadn't done any of this yesterday and it was status quo like it was a

00:03:28.720 couple weeks ago then then what would have happened is on on January 20th we would have gone back to

00:03:34.880 parliament and in all likelihood a couple of weeks later in early February the government would have

00:03:40.260 been defeated and uh and then we would have gone to an election and and and but can I just say but

00:03:48.840 sorry but I just want to mention one thing yeah one of the other things we need to remember too is

00:03:54.540 um these kinds of shenanigans if they had occurred under almost any other circumstances would be just

00:04:00.620 viewed as shenanigans perhaps but to do these kinds of shenanigans now when the Americans are about to

00:04:07.340 get a new president in two weeks or three weeks that's like this is a crazy time to be pulling these

00:04:13.380 kinds of shenanigans and I think that's where the the legal challenge comes in on side of uh you know

00:04:20.140 when the UK was going through brie exit and uh you know they tried to pro rogue then it was like no 0.90

00:04:26.360 like there's some serious shit hitting the fans right now we're not going to let you guys escape this we 0.94

00:04:31.260 need an actual responsible government you're not shutting down government so you don't have to answer 0.99

00:04:35.400 the tough questions we need you here doing your fucking jobs and and and it's much the same for what 0.98

00:04:41.820 we're facing because January 20th is inauguration day that's when Trump takes seat and we've seen 0.98

00:04:47.740 what he did in his you know when he when he was elected as 45 um you know his first what weekend

00:04:54.340 he'd signed 100 executive orders you know he just went absolutely buck wild and you know he seems to 0.97

00:05:00.800 have a wild hair up his ass with with Canada right now and for all the right reasons the same reasons that 0.99

00:05:06.440 Canadians have a problem with the Canadian government same same wild hairs up all of our asses right so 0.99

00:05:13.240 um there's no reason that you need to have an existential uh threat to challenge this so from 0.93

00:05:21.060 the decision in Britain uh the UK it said that even if you're affecting the core and essence of the

00:05:28.100 business of the parliament so that clearly that's happening I think any Canadian citizen can challenge the

00:05:36.100 government and that was the first thing that we uh on this decision so any decision the government

00:05:41.220 ever makes you could um go to court within 30 days and challenge it on a judicial review

00:05:49.620 so that could be like a WCB decision like a government type body that could be a bill that and that's what

00:05:57.840 we're hearing LCB LGBTQ community is doing in Alberta they're bringing a judicial review nobody's been harmed

00:06:05.220 yet it's not a claim against the government of Alberta but they're saying I have a problem with the

00:06:11.240 legislation that you've created and I'm gonna ask the court to review it and these are the reasons why

00:06:17.000 and so that's the one we already have what I posted earlier today is because this issue is actually

00:06:25.000 affecting business in Canada not just Canada but at every provincial level as well

00:06:31.220 every premier in Canada should be issuing a judicial review of this decision uh and I think that just

00:06:40.680 just pause for a second but but you so a judicial review no matter what the court's not gonna

00:06:46.440 hear that like tomorrow morning right there's is there a way to make that super urgent or is it

00:06:51.600 a 30-day thing we've never seen this before I think that provinces could make the argument to

00:06:57.240 to the Supreme Court saying this is an issue that is of national public importance

00:07:03.240 five provinces are making this claim and because provinces first have to make a claim

00:07:09.400 to their provincial um court of appeal but I think five premiers can come together and say

00:07:16.780 let's all challenge the government on this this is affecting our business this is costing us like

00:07:22.400 they talk you know what were they able to do when they said that truckers were costing the government

00:07:28.360 of Canada so much money they could do the same thing here like I can't even imagine what the actual

00:07:34.500 consequences are of this kind of game playing on behalf of Trudeau I also said federal opposition

00:07:42.300 leaders especially like Jagmeet Singh who's the one that said yeah I'm gonna bring them down okay put your

00:07:48.400 money where your mouth is challenge this decision because there's a lot to challenge here um can the

00:07:55.100 governor general do this and on what basis let's have this put out in court or is it similar to what

00:08:01.160 happened in the UK and that they went too far they don't have the ability to do this I think this is an

00:08:06.740 incredibly legitimate challenge and the reason I said premiers and federal opposition leaders should

00:08:13.260 be doing this as opposed to like a couple Canadians which is what we already see today is like Canadians 0.94

00:08:19.280 have to come up with the money to do this this is a serious public interest um issue that's causing

00:08:26.720 economic problems on everybody provinces have trillions of dollars in budget they could put a few

00:08:34.200 few hundred grand towards this issue rather than making some Canadians scrape up the money to go do it

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The Critical Compass Podcast - January 10, 2025

UNPRECEDENTED - Trudeau ＂Resigns＂ & Prorogues Parliament -- What Happens Next？

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