Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he has asked Gov. Gen. Julie Payette to prorogue Parliament.
use “prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances,” as the Liberals accused former prime minister Stephen Harper of doing.of Harper’s 2013 prorogation amid the Senate expense scandal. , killing all legislative business that has not passed. In this case it would mean halting all ongoing WE Charity committee probes should they still be underway when the prorogation comes into effect, and wiping away the remaining pre-pandemic pieces of legislation.
There has also been considerable discussion about the particular impact the pandemic is having on women’s economic standing——and having a female at the helm of the finance department could be the Liberals' way of signalling that they’re aware of the challenges facing Canadians in rebuilding. “Earlier this year, Justin Trudeau shamefully shut down Parliament to try and avoid accountability. Now he has locked out Opposition MPs who were working hard to fix his government’s pandemic programs, help Canadians and get to the bottom of his corruption scandal,” Scheer said.
“I would just say generally speaking, we have a government of elites and self-serving snobs who look down on ordinary working class Canadians… That is the attitude of entitlement that we have come to expect from Trudeau and everyone he is put in positions of power,” said Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday morning, reacting to the shuffle news.
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