OTTAWA -- There was always a faint ray of hope that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would actually live up to his promise to do politics differently after the soul-wearying years under control freak Stephen Harper.
This week the last ray of hope went out over the Hill, extinguished by the prime minister’s Machiavellian attempt to force an election over a contrived question of confidence that, had the NDP not folded like a cheap suit, would’ve forced an election. As a needlessly provocative power grab, it was absurd, galling, petty, shameless, throw-the-remote-at-the-TV infuriating . . . sorry, getting carried away.
After all, it was one thing to lift a snap prorogation from the Harper playbook to shut down committee investigations into the WE scandal and then to unleash cabinet-auditioning seals to thwart the probe when Parliament reconvened. Both were vintage Harper tactics. They had no choice but to roll over, try to sell their actions as an altruistic sacrifice to save Canada from an unwanted election and hope they’re not mistaken for Liberals during the next campaign.
CORRUPTION
Don, I’m not surprised.
Meanwhile the numbers are in and Canada is number one....and that is a very bad thing.
Is that what calling a bluff means to right wing media? Thought Martin resigned?
Harper is destroying the fabric of Alberta as we speak from the shadows
Master? LMAO
The difference is PMJT is innocent and a great leader
More than Harper 😂😂😂
It's funny how many think that the 'Cons' won't have corruption 🤣
Not really. He has old Candy Cotton Head Singh by the balls and that's all he really needs.
Has anybody told him?
jackgo2 is another person that appears to support the corrupt and bad government under JustinTrudeau
Re-election!WE need it.
The Duplicit Prime Minister. Who is Justin Trudeau? He told us from the beginning he hates Q and A. Canadians didn't think he would follow through and actually enact that hate.
Erin O'Toole is not Prime Minister material. Not now. Not ever. Why didn't CPC_HQ select Peter Mackay as Leader? Just like with AndrewScheer it will cost them the election
theJagmeetSingh folds again
You're nos supposed to smoke Kool-Aid, Don
JustinTrudeau is and always will be about absolute power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If Shawn Mullin wants to be ruled by absolute power, then he should go live in VZ or Cuba, or the Middle East.
So we do have confidence in our government.
He got them cave. Executive privilege is embedded in our system of government for reason.
Pfft! Just one far right Conservative's OPINION from someone that cost his last print media employer $650,000 in a defamation suit.
Told you so.
The liberals, ndp just lost support by voting in favor of corruption. WEscandal corruption dictatorship
I do not always agree with Don Martin, but I do with this article. JustinTrudeau will always be about absolute power. Trudeau will do whatever he can to shut down the debate of his policies. The old saying “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
How do we make this session not pre read questions and scripted responses? Clearly this should be something we can push for!
The vote said more about the NDP. We know about the Liberal party. They appear to have no concern about due process or ethics, and why should they? No one east of the prairies will hold them accountable. The NDP on the other hand make tons of noise but disappear when it gets real
anyone below that pumps jt tires can go eat a bag of dicks
Harper didn’t dare use kickbacks and influence peddling like Justin does.
Trudeau is a manipulative dictator FireTrudeau
Thank God that moron Martin is gone and yes, forgotten !!
THIS NOW IS TRUDEAU'S 2ND TERM AS PRIME MINISTER WHY ARE WE COMPARING HIM WITH HARPER,HMMMM TO HAVE PEOPLE JUDGE AND HATE CONSERVATIVES...TrudeauCorruption LiberalCorruption EVEN A CONSERVATIVE WOULD CALL OUT ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE FOR THE CRIMES THAT THIS LIBERAL PARTY HAS DONE
The Laurentien’s aren’t going to like being compared to Mr Harper
You mean Butts?
Maybe or did Otoole play Trudeau! We scandal front and centre once again!
Master 😂 Nope JT is an idiot! The NDP leader is desperate & doesn't want to go to the polls, his party would be decimated. His lead is an embarrassment to NDP supporters. The Bloc didn't support JT, the level of corruption is even below them to make a deal.
Trudeau us abusing the Confidence Vote normally held for budget items to BLOCK CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HIMSELF...this is UNPRECEDENTED in Canada and more like a BANANA REPUBLIC which is what Canada has become...when a PM can BLOCK investigation of himself democracy is DEAD..!!
You mean Butts ..surely?
Justin is the master of parliamentary skills. That’s his job. O’Tootle unfortunately isn’t.
I just came here to see the same people who complain all the time that there are never any negative stories about JT. Where did they go?
Not the way I saw it
CDNpoli But Don Martin has a ridiculous obsession with hating Trudeau... this article could be about socks for all we know. (And no - Trudeau is not even close to Harper... that guy controlled every single thing to ever come out of his government)
Harper wrote the book. Harper used confidence votes on many Bill's to control the house, he prorogued 2 times in a year to get away from other criminal actions. Let alone he prorogued the house 5 times in total
Pfft! Just one far right Conservative's OPINION from someone that cost his last print media employer $650,000 in a defamation suit.
No one was as good as Harper...
A judge of the Alberta court had this to say about Don Martin as a columnist: “Upon analysis of the defamatory comments (and there were many) the trial judge found that some were unsupported by any reliable source, some were exaggerations, and others were simply untrue.”
Could this writer please at least edit -the quality of this 'journalism' is embarrassing.
WEscandal TrudeauCorruption Arrogance
Thank goodness for Trudeau and the liberals through this pandemic for all Canadians, if it was the conservatives Canada would look like the United States right now where money is far more important than people?
Fascists usually do have problems in actual democracies
Back under your rock, Don.😂
What a joke? And when he was in opposition always talked of doing things differently. Bring on the elections.
Gasp! A politician being a politician.
Even more than Harper? Ha, I guess the student has become the master, eh?
TrudeauCorruption. No comparison to Harper.
Don, please don't give true dough that much credit, he only does what Butts tells him to do!
In the near future the new catch phrase will be in the Trudeau Years. It will replace the blame game phrase Trudeau uses as his excuse in the Harper Years.
Poor Don licking his wounds.
'For those who thought Stephen Harper was the dark lord of all-controlling, win-at-any-cost political strategy, think again. Justin Trudeau is worse. That's the bottom line.' Wow - I wasn't expecting an eviscerating article like that from CTV News...
No Trudeau is NOT the MASTER its Jerry BUTS behind all this
Another view: Maybe what ALL parties really voted on today was that nothing they knew or understood surrounding the events & issues called into question by such an investigation or committee were truly important enough to bring into focus right now.
No surprise! Don Martin has always been just a bit CPC biased
And remember how you spewed hate towards Harper because of that dinky Don?
Let's be clear, he did not go from third to 1st in 2015, because stephenharper and ThomasMulcair out smarted him. ReadyToVoteLiberalNow TiredOfPigeonPierre TiredofCPCBullshit
the lazy lying stoned stupid drama surfer trust fund brat only suprised the Ottawa inbred media
Not Trudeau ..must have been master baiter Butts.
This guys being a bit dramatic he cracked the thesaurus out for this one
You really think this is Trudeau? It's just some puppet master behind the scenes that is running the show.
Oh he’s pretty bad, but not quite as bad as Harper was, but there’s time yet.
CanadianPM is a criminal.
Looks like they called each other this morning to coordinate outfits.'I'll wear my red tie, you wear your blue one!...cool beanz!'
Justin is corrupt, on the take, in bed with China and an all out Globalist Shill. Canada is gone, what Harper started this man finished, Canada is now a Vassal state of China. Sad the Canadian people were so busy hating Trump they did not notice.
This is a joke right?
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