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Subject: Re: [OT] Our next prime minister will be Mark Carney
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:06:16 -0400
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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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
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.
> 
> 
> 


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Rhino