Poilievre writes to GG calling for House recall, confidence vote after Singh declares he's ready to bring Liberals down
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, imploring her to 'use your authority to inform the prime minister that he must' recall the House of Commons so a non-confidence vote can be held. This move comes in light of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh publishing a letter stating his caucus 'will vote to bring this government down' sometime in 2025.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, imploring her to "use your authority to inform the prime minister that he must" recall the House of Commons so a non-confidence vote can be held. This move comes in light of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh publishing a letter stating his caucus "will vote to bring this government down" sometime in 2025.
Poilievre told reporters on Parliament Hill on Friday afternoon he was taking this step "so the prime minister can judge whether he stays in power."
Despite indicating he would be asking Simon to "urgently reconvene Parliament," his letter to her does not state that exactly. It asks her to "confer with" the prime minister "to ensure that he understands his constitutional duty."
This latest pressure — coupled with the NDP, after months of being non-committal, pulling out the only pillar of parliamentary support the embattled Liberal government was relying on to stay in power — comes on the same day that Trudeau shuffled his cabinet at Rideau Hall.
He did so alongside Simon, in a bid to inject some stability after a week of tumult, exactly one month before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump takes office.
"The Trudeau Liberals said a lot of the right things. Then they let people down again and again. Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job a prime minister has: to work for people, not the powerful. To focus on Canadians, not themselves," Singh said in a new letter addressed to Canadians.
"The Liberals don't deserve another chance… No matter who is leading the Liberal Party, this government's time is up," said the NDP leader, not specifying how early into the 2025 sitting this motion moving to defeat the prime minister's Liberal government could be advanced.
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