Re: [OT] Our next prime minister will be Mark Carney

On 2025-03-10 1:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 10, 2025 at 6:05:28 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

The Liberal leadership convention has finally chosen a new leader and,
to the shock of almost no one, Mark Carney is the winner. (He got 86% of
the votes from Liberal Party members, runner up Chrystia Freeland got
less than 10%.) That means he will become our next prime minister as
soon as Trudeau formally steps down, which is expected in the next few
days.
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Carney's term as PM may well be rather brief. He's widely expected to
call an election in the next few weeks, hoping to use a renewed interest
in the Liberal Party to win. I sincerely hope that voters are not
fooled: the Liberals have only put lipstick on the pig that is their
party and will maintain all the same policies as under Trudeau with the
exception of the much-despised carbon tax. But Carney is even more
fanatical about Net Zero than Trudeau was and has promised to replace
the carbon tax with something even more effective - i.e. even more
destructive of the Canadian economy - so that we can meet his carbon
reduction goals.
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But at least the odious Justin Trudeau is finally on his way out so
we'll be spared having to endure his performative virtue-signalling.
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By the way, Carney has never stood for elected office before and has no
seat in Parliament, meaning he will not actually be able to participate
in parliamentary sessions directly. He'll have to delegate others in his
cabinet to do the things that a prime minister usually does. There's
precedent for this though so procedures are in place.

 Most people don't know that our Speaker of the House-- third in line to the
presidency-- doesn't have to be a member of Congress. It's a long-standing
tradition that the Speaker is elected from within the ranks of Congress, but
there's no legal or constitutional requirement that he/she has to be a member.
They could literally elect anyone if they have the votes to do it, although
one assumes whomever they elect would have to meet the qualifications for the
presidency since they would be in the line of succession.
 

That's interesting; I never knew that. It reminds me that I have a similar question I've been meaning to ask for a long time: do Supreme Court Justices have to have experience as lower court judges? Do they even have to have law degrees? I wonder if a President could propose someone that is just very well regarded as a wise man or woman? Could the Senate confirm such a person or are their laws that would prevent it?

But it's also why
Carney will be keen to have an election very shortly: he really needs a
seat in parliament to look the part of a leader. Here's hoping that
Carney's fate is to be only a footnote in history, as the guy who was
Prime Minister for a few short weeks until the next election established
a massive Conservative Party majority.

  

--
Rhino