UNPRECEDENTED - Trudeau ＂Resigns＂ & Prorogues Parliament -- What Happens Next？
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Justin Trudeau announced that he's proroguing Parliament, and that he intends to resign as Prime Minister of Canada. What does this mean for the future of the country and what does it mean for Canada?
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there's two moves so Trudeau first of all he announced that he's proroguing parliament and
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and we'll I guess we'll come back to that but then the second thing he announced
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is that he's he intends to resign um which is again why he didn't simply resign on the spot
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and and I I think he should have just resigned on the spot and then and delegated to somebody else
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they should have appointed an interim person I think they're making their life complicated
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and in fact they're making their life really really complicated because um their constitution
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their leadership uh race right now I don't think they can have a new leader in time for
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the end of this prorogued period they won't have a new leader by March uh 27th well I think even the
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way that he that he described why he was resigning was the the way he set it up was that so that he
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didn't have to just say that we'll hand off the leadership because he he said that the whole
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reason was because he couldn't carry on with all the infighting in the liberal party so just just to
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make it seem like oh no like I'm fine the party is what needs to get its house in order right before
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we can continue so I just pulled up on screen here how many times this has happened um so this is the
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the the vote of no or motion of no confidence so it was 1926 1963 1974 1979 2005 2011 votes of no
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confidence in 2005 and 2011 were the result of explicit confidence motions presented by the
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opposition so just so we have that for for kind of clarity for whenever somebody loops back to watch
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this and what I wanted to say is that this is where I think everything gets a bit confusing and
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this is when you asked me about proroguing and I was like well what's the purpose non-confidence is
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something different different too and I think in most normal cases we would have had either the
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prime minister resign like we were saying or have a non-confidence vote and there were non-confidence
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votes but the um Jagmeet Singh and his party were propping up the liberal party and what's
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incredibly frustrating too is the liberal party themselves were propping up Justin Trudeau so
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they led to their own demise in a normal state of affairs this would have already happened at one of
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the earlier non-confident motion confidence motions somebody would have said there's a lot of internal
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strife but they the liberal party and the NDP party I think did this to themselves and now they're all
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trying to like they're surprised that this is what Justin is doing I totally can um understand that this is
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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
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lot of internal problems okay so you don't stop all of government is you deal with that matter
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on your own and that's not an issue for Canada to be dealing with and that's why all of this is
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incredibly I think there's a definitely a good chance on a legal challenge because this the purpose
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of the prorogation is not a little reset this is for some their own purposes and that's not what it's
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for if they hadn't if he hadn't done any of this yesterday and it was status quo like it was a
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couple weeks ago then then what would have happened is on on January 20th we would have gone back to
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parliament and in all likelihood a couple of weeks later in early February the government would have
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been defeated and uh and then we would have gone to an election and and and but can I just say but
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sorry but I just want to mention one thing yeah one of the other things we need to remember too is
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um these kinds of shenanigans if they had occurred under almost any other circumstances would be just
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viewed as shenanigans perhaps but to do these kinds of shenanigans now when the Americans are about to
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get a new president in two weeks or three weeks that's like this is a crazy time to be pulling these
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kinds of shenanigans and I think that's where the the legal challenge comes in on side of uh you know
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when the UK was going through brie exit and uh you know they tried to pro rogue then it was like no
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like there's some serious shit hitting the fans right now we're not going to let you guys escape this we
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need an actual responsible government you're not shutting down government so you don't have to answer
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the tough questions we need you here doing your fucking jobs and and and it's much the same for what
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we're facing because January 20th is inauguration day that's when Trump takes seat and we've seen
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what he did in his you know when he when he was elected as 45 um you know his first what weekend
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he'd signed 100 executive orders you know he just went absolutely buck wild and you know he seems to
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have a wild hair up his ass with with Canada right now and for all the right reasons the same reasons that
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Canadians have a problem with the Canadian government same same wild hairs up all of our asses right so
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um there's no reason that you need to have an existential uh threat to challenge this so from
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the decision in Britain uh the UK it said that even if you're affecting the core and essence of the
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business of the parliament so that clearly that's happening I think any Canadian citizen can challenge the
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government and that was the first thing that we uh on this decision so any decision the government
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ever makes you could um go to court within 30 days and challenge it on a judicial review
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so that could be like a WCB decision like a government type body that could be a bill that and that's what
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we're hearing LCB LGBTQ community is doing in Alberta they're bringing a judicial review nobody's been harmed
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yet it's not a claim against the government of Alberta but they're saying I have a problem with the
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legislation that you've created and I'm gonna ask the court to review it and these are the reasons why
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and so that's the one we already have what I posted earlier today is because this issue is actually
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affecting business in Canada not just Canada but at every provincial level as well
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every premier in Canada should be issuing a judicial review of this decision uh and I think that just
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just pause for a second but but you so a judicial review no matter what the court's not gonna
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hear that like tomorrow morning right there's is there a way to make that super urgent or is it
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a 30-day thing we've never seen this before I think that provinces could make the argument to
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to the Supreme Court saying this is an issue that is of national public importance
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five provinces are making this claim and because provinces first have to make a claim
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to their provincial um court of appeal but I think five premiers can come together and say
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let's all challenge the government on this this is affecting our business this is costing us like
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they talk you know what were they able to do when they said that truckers were costing the government
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of Canada so much money they could do the same thing here like I can't even imagine what the actual
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consequences are of this kind of game playing on behalf of Trudeau I also said federal opposition
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leaders especially like Jagmeet Singh who's the one that said yeah I'm gonna bring them down okay put your
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money where your mouth is challenge this decision because there's a lot to challenge here um can the
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governor general do this and on what basis let's have this put out in court or is it similar to what
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happened in the UK and that they went too far they don't have the ability to do this I think this is an
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incredibly legitimate challenge and the reason I said premiers and federal opposition leaders should
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be doing this as opposed to like a couple Canadians which is what we already see today is like Canadians
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have to come up with the money to do this this is a serious public interest um issue that's causing
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economic problems on everybody provinces have trillions of dollars in budget they could put a few
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few hundred grand towards this issue rather than making some Canadians scrape up the money to go do it