It already seems obvious to me that when the majority of the peoples’ elected representatives in the House of Commons votes to express their non-confidence in the government, the government should fall and new elections should be held. We now know that the Liberals don’t agree with that and that they think they will darn well decide what’s good for us and how we are governed.
We’ve always known that liberals believe they live by an entirely different set of rules. We see it in their rules for freedom of speech, which is limited to them only; in what constitutes “hate-speech” and “bigotry” and “intolerance”; in how they conduct ethics investigations; and in how they conduct themselves generally and in government.
They don’t like Canada the way it is, so they seek to constantly change it using any means at their disposal—end they’ve ensured that all of Canada is at their disposal—everyone from the media through the bureaucracy through the Supreme Court through even to the top of the pile, the leader of all the land, the former CBC reporter and now Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson. The deck is stacked. Liberals are in favor of this.
The Vancouver Province gave us their take on the rules in this case:
Legal experts agreed yesterday that “confidence” in a government, or lack of it, is a question that can only be determined by the Commons. In other words, not by the prime minister or the opposition leaders.
If MPs disagree over whether a matter is one of confidence it is up to the government or the opposition to table a motion that will clarify the intentions of the House.
The governor-general, who normally takes the advice of the prime minister, would only disregard the prime minister’s advice in exceptional circumstances, experts suggested.
Nor would the Speaker of the Commons wade into “confidence” debates.
“The Speaker would refuse to intervene because that’s not his field,” explained Camille Montpetit, co-author of House of Commons Procedure and Practice, the authority on the subject.
Montpetit noted tradition dictates if a government is defeated in the House on a confidence question, then the government is expected to resign.
What amounts to “confidence” varies with the circumstances.
A number of motions are implicitly considered to be confidence matters, including motions related to the budget or in reply to the speech from the throne.
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