Political watchers predict Premier David Eby could call an election in mid\u002D2023 to take advantage of B.C.\u0027s $5.7 billion surplus. Read more.
B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau announced Tuesday that her party has opened nominations for candidates so they can be prepared for a such an election.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“The case is strong to go early rather than wait until 2024,” said David Black, a political communication expert at Royal Roads University., which promises to address public safety, housing, health and climate change, sends a clear political message of: “We’re here with our solutions. We’re going to do it in a hurry.”he has no plans to call an early election, saying British Columbians want the government to focus on the major issues of health care, public safety and affordability.
Baier said with Eby’s ministerial picks to be unveiled Wednesday, they will have little time to prove themselves as a cabinet before switching into election mode.Article content to hire more Mounties, and $76.5 million on a range of public safety initiatives including tools to deal with prolific offenders, improvements to mental-health and addiction teams, and investments in Indigenous justice centres.Article content
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Speculation starts about a potential cabinet shuffleWith the House scheduled to adjourn for the Christmas break on Dec. 16, speculation has already started about the possibility of a cabinet shuffle prior to the start of the winter sitting of Parliament at the end of January, say Liberals and senior political strategists. “Any way you cut it, we are moving towards a federal election, whether sooner or later,” said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist for Nanos Research. “And I would expect that the government will regularly refresh the cabinet, as individuals decide not to re-offer or to elevate individuals who might be in ridings that are priority ridings, because elevating someone to cabinet is usually done for a number of reasons. One of the reasons sometimes is to create profile for individuals in key swing ridings in order to help them fight the re-election.” MPs will return for the winter sitting on Jan. 30, 2023. Political insiders interviewed for this article said that if the shuffle takes place in the coming weeks, it would be before the cabinet retreat prior to the start of Parliament. The Liberal caucus is also scheduled to meet for its winter retreat on the Jan. 28 weekend in Ottawa. Since becoming prime minister seven years ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has shuffled his cabinet four times in the month of January, including in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Over these years, he has had 16 minor and major cabinet shuffles, excluding the first cabinet which he unveiled after becoming prime minister in November 2015. Of these, Trudeau shuffled his cabinet twice in 2016, twice in 2017, three times in 2018, five times in 2019, once in 2020, twice in 2021 and once this year, according to research by the Library of Parliament. According to media reports, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is in the running for the position of secretary general of NATO. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Since the last federal election in September 2021, Trudeau has had only one minor shuffle on Aug. 30
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Smith wants Alberta's sovereigntyOTTAWA—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants sovereignty in a united Canada. She claims it has nothing to do with a desire to separate, but the first bill she tabled as premier says otherwise. The crux of the bill is to give her cabinet the right to refuse to proceed with any federal legislation or action that it perceives as detrimental to Alberta. Notwithstanding her promises while running for the United Conservative Party leadership, she makes it very plain that her cabinet decisions take precedence over the Canadian Constitution. Observers have underscored problems with the legislation, but they have more to do with internal Alberta politics than anything coming from Ottawa. The decision to give cabinet the right to overturn all laws could actually cause problems for democracy in Alberta. The move certainly seems to diminish the power of the legislature’s involvement in the approval, rejection, or amendment of any legislation. In a majority government, the cabinet recommendation is usually carried by the legislature. But that is not a given. Minority governments are unlikely in Alberta, given the dominance of only two political parties. But the decision to simply override parliamentary opinion by way of a cabinet fiat is definitely a political mistake. At this point, the premier has to be a lot more concerned about her standing amongst Alberta voters than her popularity, or lack thereof, in the rest of the country. She has to face the voters in less than six months, and even her immediate predecessor has made it very clear that he disagrees with her sovereignty pitch. In resigning on the same day that Smith tabled the sovereignty bill, outgoing premier Jason Kenney took an indirect hit at Smith’s first piece of legislation by way of his retirement statement: “I am concerned that our democratic life is veering away from ordinary prudential debate towards a polarization that undermines our bedrock institutions and principles.” There has never been any love lost
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David Rosenberg: Canada's housing bubble has finally popped — don't underestimate the impactAnother 25% decline in home prices would strip $1 trillion off Canadians\u0027 wealth. Find out more
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