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Subject: Re: [OT] Our next prime minister will be Mark Carney
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:28:23 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

> 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.