Will Mark Carney replace Justin Trudeau?

@BittersweetPotato I agree 100%

@JimboSaturn good question 🤷‍♂ I'm American so I don't know anything about parliamentary politics

@tenente The prime minister is the head of the federal government. He or she is also an elected member of Parliament. In the party system, the leader of the party with the most support in the House of Commons becomes prime minister. Party leaders can be prime minister even if they are not an MP. For example, John Turner spent most of his term as prime minister outside the House. But convention would urge them to seek a seat in a general election or a by-election.

@JimboSaturn Thanks for that clarification.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Totally agree! If he hates her, that should be a plus added to her without much efforts on her own. I feel he is intimidated by strong women.

@BittersweetPotato Definitely.

@Guardian No such thing

@Guardian That’s why he could not be named to replace Christia Freeland

@Quimliqer @Guardian


American here. We're a republic so our rules are different than Canadas parliamentary system. It's a good question, and looking at the rules (from 2020), apparently, yes, you can be elected to lead the Liberal political party in Canada (and be PM in this example) without being a congressman.

That's wild

https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2020/10/National-Nomination-Rules.pdf

@redredred Really? All you have is dad jokes and a conspiracy theory from the 70s?

@tenente Usually they are not young. Trudeau was a notable exception. The NDP (Singh's party) had a huge surge in membership among young people a few years back thanks to the late Jack Layton. Sadly he passed but his leadership got a ton of young people elected that honestly were probably surprised they were elected too. The NDP was a distant 3rd protest vote for decades. Jack Layton is the reason it is not a serious party in Canada at the national level.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow why is "Jack Layton is the reason it is not a serious party in Canada at the national level"?

@Guardian He generated a serious movement of support for left wing ideas in Canada and was the right person at the right time. Think like Bernie Sanders 2016 but probably even bigger impact. He got people elected in provinces that didn't have any NDP seats at all.


And if he had not died of cancer he likely would have been PM by a landslide and one of our most popular PMs ever. He likely would have taken the party from a distant 3rd protest vote to running the country.

Now unfortunately he also illustrated our own problems in our country long term. Jagmeet Singh has nearly an identical platform, is a great speaker and passionate, principles, but alot of people can't see past the turban.

@Lilymoon BOOOOO!

@tenente he can't be any worse then a comedian becoming PM (Vladomyr Zelinski)!

@Guardian Rachel McAdams! 😍

@noexpectations1 Umm no.