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[theweaselking]

Opposition parties learn of 200-page "how to obstruct the workings of parliament" manual distributed by Canada's Interim Placeholder Government to MPs, demand it be made public.

Notably, CIPG won't deny the existence of the manual.

Comments

[matgb]

Hmm, so they're doing as wella s to be expected then?

Are we looking at a 1993 level defeat for them next time, or will they rig it somehow?

[thormation.livejournal.com]

So how much longer is this "Interim" supposed to last? You make it sound like they'll be voted out Any Day Now.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

They are a minority government, elected solely because of backlash against the previous government. They will be voted out as soon as the next election happens - and the next election will happen as soon as they lose a vote in the House of Commons.

Canada has a parliamentary system, meaning that elections are not set for a flat amount of time. Instead, elections are called when
A) the government fails a Vote Of No Confidence - effectively, when they fail to pass a bill they sponsor.
B) *at most* five years have passed.

This means there's a strategy to when to call an election, and that the Interim Placeholder Government should have done so several months ago when they were ahead - the long they're in power, the worse they look, to the point where they're haemoraghing about half a percent popular support, per day.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

Or there's the whole "Canada isn't actually a country" business.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh, like they're the only ones with such a dirty tricks collection; the others have just been smarter about not writing them down and putting a party imprimatur on it.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Which is why the rest of the parties are jumping up and down with glee - they haven't been caught. Yet.