There is a significant difference between the Canadian Government and our government. In Canada, if the House passes a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, he is removed from office. Here is how Reader’s Digest Canada described this in September of 2020:
What a Vote of No Confidence Really Means | Reader’s Digest Canada (readersdigest.ca)
It is important to note that while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a majority government in 2015, he does not now have a majority government. He won re-election in 2019 but did not get a majority government. Then, last year, he called a snap election held on September 20, 2021. He thought would give him that majority. He did remain if office, but he did not get a majority. That really matters. If the other parties unite to produce a no-confidence vote, he will be forced to resign and there will be another election. Based on his performance trying and failing to explain his insane plan to declare martial law, without the authority of parliament. He appears to be in real trouble. Several times he was literally shouted down.
We never see this in the U.S. Our constitution is great, but it here it is much harder to get rid of a President than it is for Canada to shred a Prime Minister. It sure looks like Trudeau is way over his skiis on this and I would not be surprised to see him go. One of the problems is that this was so unnecessary. The demands by the truckers were actually pretty reasonable, but Trudeau literally called them a fringe element, Nazis, and white supremacists. More importantly he let this escalate to the point where truckers felt forced to take drastic action. Then instead of listening and at least promising to reconsider, Trudeau arrogantly said he was following science and they were just naïve and stupid terrorists. That is dumber than Joe Biden bragging about putting a dead dog on a woman’s doorstep. Liberals thought this was hysterical. Most people probably think this is another Biden lie. But perhaps it would be worse if true, because it is not only stupid, but it also demonstrates a total disregard for everyone else. One could say that Biden’s solution to any problem is to dump it on someone else’s doorstep.
Even if Trudeau was right, he still botched this to a fair thee well. He put himself in a position where he had to either cave to the protests, or to take action that is simply unthinkable. He chose the latter. When you combine this with a lot of public support for these truckers, Trudeau responded in the worst possible way. He should have offered to meet with them, in exchange for removing he blockage. Then made some changes, claim he was planning to do this anyway, and take all the credit for the results. Instead, he basically made this a choice between them and him, and he just may be the one who loses.
Trudeau may not have figured this out, but politicians all over the United States and the world got the message. Democratic governors in blue states quickly moved to remove mask mandates to get ahead of this. Even here in California the mask mandates, for vaccinated people, ended last night. School mask mandates are scheduled to be removed in two weeks.
Thank you, Justin Trudeau. You did make the world a better place. Unfortunately, it happened only after bleeding Canada dry.
TDM