So the house didn’t vote? What is BS? The outcome you don’t like? Cause I am pretty sure I posted a fact here.
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So the house didn’t vote? What is BS? The outcome you don’t like? Cause I am pretty sure I posted a fact here.
They had 7 days to take it to the house for a vote and they did. How is this a confidence vote? And if it was, clearly he was right in being “so sure he was right”. LO
Emergencies Act passes crucial House of Commons vote with NDP support — CBC News
A motion affirming the Liberal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act passed a crucial House of Commons vote Monday, ensuring the expansive powers contained in the act remain in use by authorities thanks to parliamentary support from the New Democrats.
He could have easily made it a "free" vote. Or, better yet, since there is absolutely no need to invoke the Act, just back away. Instead he FORCED his members and the idiotic NDP- which is broke- to vote with him just to prevent another election.
When enacting the Emergency Act, the current government has 7 days to bring it to the House for a vote. That is the rules. That is the law. That is what he did.
Actually, all sides lost. Not now or in the near future, but the precedent has been set. One day, PM Poilievre or somebody else, will reach for the Act to crash the civil service strikes or Native occupations or any other protest it will deem illegal. And he will make it a confidence vote and the sheep will line up just like they did this time. To be honest, I wouldn't mind living long enough just to see it because I love a good laugh.
So you want this type of instability? So you can have a laugh? Really?
Citizens protesting is not an instability. It's a characteristic of a democratic, free society. Crashing that right is a function of fascism.
Of course that went over your head. LMAO.
We can still disagree. I see no reason for them to keep up the suspension of civil liberties in Canada for another three weeks. The occupiers are gone.
The results probably wouldn't have been different if it was a free vote. But, I think he was right in calling it a confidence vote. So, stop pretending he suspended the charter or made mass arrests of anyone. Because those things didn't happen. If the police in Ottawa, or even Doug Ford, did something sooner, there wouldn't have been a need to use the EA. And Ford and a few other Premiers ask Trudeau to do something. Well, what could he do? Any PM has limited scope in what they can do in times like this, and the EA is actually pretty good. The Charter isn't suspended, there will be a mandatory review on the action once it ends, and parliament has another opportunity to vote against it in the coming weeks. This is democracy in action.
Oh to be clear - I don’t think we needed a war time act to be enacted. And I don’t agree with extending it. I guess I didn’t put my own personal opinion in there so by posting the news, I made it look like I was supporting it.
I usually don't post in the vitriol, hyperbole and virtue signaling forum but jcpro is right. There are no winners here. The Emergency Act did not need to be enacted to end this protest/occupation. More of our elected MP's opposed it than wanted it (including some Liberals) but they didn't want to trigger another election. Like jcpro said I think the Emergency Act will be soon the norm to quell whatever protests/occupations the standing government does not like or deems illegal, especially if they have a majority government. For Liberals, this is one of them, people protesting what they see as government overreach. For Conservatives it will be a climate change or a BLM protest.
