[BeaverFever]

Martin15 Martin15:

Tricks Tricks:

Calling a snap election would also waste a bunch of money that could be better served trying to help the people affected, and would make Trudeau look like more of a self-serving ass.

xerxes xerxes:

On the other hand, a snap election call would show how craven the Liberals really are a

And that wouldn't stop one of the idiots who voted for him last time.

After the blackface, the corruption, the tit grabbing, the gun grabbing,
the economic disaster, the dancing, the complete embarrassment.....



Let's face it, he could take of those illegal guns, start shooting people
at the Cenotaph, and still win an election.

It's like Trump.

The fact that his government was reduced to minority status says otherwise.

Also there was no tit grabbing.

But don’t let facts get in your way.

[PluggyRug]

Tricks Tricks:

And that's largely for the same reason that Trump won (and might win again) in the U.S. The conservatives need a leader that doesn't suck. Just as the Democrats do.

There's no one in the current crop, worthy of leadership from any of our political parties.

[CharlesAnthony]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

There's no one in the current crop, worthy of leadership from any of our political parties.

The same goes for us up here.

The worst thing that can happen is if nobody shows up on sham (s)election day. It is just a matter of time before the (s)elections are cancelled because the puppets are afraid of embarrassing themselves. Right now, they are afraid of shaking eachothers' hands in public. It will get weirder.

The kids these days aint stupid. They know there is no difference between the TweedleDumTrudeau and TweedleDeeScheer sell-out clowns.

[JaredMilne]

In the worlds of Old Man Harrison...

"No! Not only no, hell no!"

Funny how we didn't call an election to determine who should be in charge during the World Wars. Robert Borden and William Lyon Mackenzie King both went into the wars with the legislatures they had before war was declared. If there's anything at all that would justify calling an election to determine our leadership in a crisis, you'd think it'd be that.

As posters like Thanos and Tricks have pointed out, Trudeau asking the Governor General for dissolution and an election would be a golden opportunity for the Opposition parties to rip on him. More than that, though, how the f*ck are we supposed to organize an election in the middle of a damn pandemic? Voters lining up during social distancing would just be the biggest problem-I worked as a citizen employee in the 2008 federal election and 2012 provincial election, and we had to gather for several training meetings beforehand, not to mention the time we had to spend counting the ballots. We were in very close contact with each other-how the frig do you manage that without endangering public health?

The one thing Trudeau could do, given that he has a minority government, is to deliberately lose a confidence vote in the House of Commons and try to win the ensuing election. There's almost no one else the Governor General could ask to form a government, and with the Conservatives in disarray and the NDP largely out of sight the Liberals could probably win a majority. If I remember right, that was the trick Pierre Trudeau used in 1974. He'd been reduced to a minority in 1972, and governed with support from the NDP until he goaded the Opposition into voting non-confidence in 1974 and won a majority in the resulting election. It'd be sneaky but legal and more difficult for the Opposition to tar him, since they chose to vote his government out of office.

(P.S.: In case anybody was wondering, a "citizen employee" is the term I use to describe members of the public Elections Canada hires to do things like guide voters, count ballots,