From Jason Levigne on X
Mark Carney can be PM without a seat or single vote, and in an emergency, stay PM till September 2026.
How?
With Mark Carney clearly making moves for the Liberal Party leadership, already securing 30 MPs, and talking with media, and is clearly a strong frontrunner, many Canadians are about to receive a huge surprise and shock.
It is a common misconception that the Prime Minister of Canada must be a Member of Parliament. Not true. The PM is appointed, not elected, to the position by the Governor General.
Mark Carney can win the Liberal Party leadership and be appointed to the role of PM.
Canada has done this once before. The 17th Prime Minister John Turner in 1984. He left politics a decade earlier and returned to succeed Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party and was then appointed PM by the Governor General without holding a seat in the HoC.
I have attached some information if you don't know anything about John Turner. He was PM for a few months in 1984.
Is history about to repeat itself? A Trudeau resigns, and Canada gets a non-elected Prime Minister?
I think that is exactly what is about to happen.
I predict the 24th Prime Minister will be unelected, Mark Carney.
Also, did you know that constitutionally, in Canada, terms can be up to 5 years? Making the next forced election date September 20, 2026.
The next question is, how are they going to stall the election? Clearly, the Liberal Party will want some rebound time to clean the Trudeau stink before the next election.
Well, there really are only two ways to stall the next election in Canada
1) Avoiding a Confidence Loss. So, make a deal with NDP or Bloc.
or
2) Delaying the Election in an Emergency. This includes economic emergencies, such as a US President threatening "economic force" and imposing harmful tariffs against Canada.
We could be stuck with the Liberals for another 20 months under non-elected PM Carney.
I haven't reported here lately about the progress in The Lions for quite a while. Here's the latest dashboard output. (Two pages).
We donated about $1000 to a member earlier on and then $500 each to Andy Lee and Sheldon.
The third nominee was the Coutts Three and it turned out that that the way to contribute is to their lawyers who also defend a wide range of freedom-related suits. Somehow I never got around to sending them the money and about then Stripe stopped paying out the money due to new government regulations and forms that I had difficulty filling out because they assume this is a business, which The Lions definiotely is not.
I'll have to look at that again because it looks as if we have accumulated some money to donate. I hate government forms.
Getting Stripe working again will also make it easier for people who want to subscribe because I think credit cards might work again, although I never have figured out how the coins and credit card thing works and there have been a ...
