The Conservatives have a plan to bring down the Liberal government. Will it work?
A similar plan failed to topple former prime minister Paul Martin's Liberals in 2005
The Conservatives have shared their latest plan to bring down the Liberal government next month.
A House of Commons committee will meet in the new year to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the government.
If all goes according to the Conservatives' plan, MPs in the House of Commons could be voting on a motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government as early as Jan. 30.
How would it work?
Parliament is currently in its six-week winter break. Until its return in late January, MPs will not be able to vote on any motions in the House of Commons.
But House of Commons standing committees can call meetings even when Parliament is on break.
Conservatives plan another attempt to bring down government in JanuaryConservative MP John Williamson, who chairs the standing committee on public accounts, said in a post on X on Friday that he would convene the committee on Jan. 7 to vote on a motion of non-confidence in the Liberal government.
The idea is to get the ball rolling before the House returns, so that if the motion were to pass in committee, Williamson would be able to introduce the results — along with a recommendation that the House has no confidence in the prime minister and the government — to the House of Commons the day it returns from winter break on Jan. 27.
The non-confidence motion could then be voted on as early as Jan. 30.
"If adopted by the House, it will be a clear expression of non-confidence in Justin Trudeau's government," a Conservative news release said on Friday.
Conservatives prepared for a filibuster
The Williamson-led panel has five Liberal MPs, four Conservative MPs, and one each from the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.
The chair votes only in the case of a tie. Committee members are allowed to abstain from voting.
It's possible that some or all of the Liberal MPs on the panel could conduct a filibuster to delay or prevent the passage of the motion by using a number of tactics.
Should that happen, Williamson said he is prepared to schedule committee meetings throughout January to force a vote to happen quickly.
Why choose this route?
Three non-confidence motions brought by the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, failed in the fall.
But with all three of the main opposition parties now saying they want the government to fall, the Liberals are almost certain to lose the next non-confidence vote. It's just a matter of when the vote occurs and which party brings it forward.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has said he would present a motion of non-confidence after the House returns from the winter break, but he did not say how his party would vote on motions introduced by other parties. All opposition parties would need to back a single motion to bring down the government.
Singh could opt instead to wait for the NDP's own opportunity to craft the wording over the key vote, which would allow New Democrats to claim credit for toppling the government should his motion pass.
Trudeau quiet on his future as NDP vows to topple governmentThat NDP opposition day vote, one of seven divided up among the opposition parties and scheduled by the governing party, would have to take place by March 26, according to House of Commons standing orders.
But the Conservatives say why wait?
In their Friday news release, the Conservatives said Singh should be prepared to live up to his promise to bring down the government by supporting an earlier motion.
Paul Martin faced non-confidence vote
This isn't the first time the Conservative Party has attempted to use a House committee to bring down the federal government.
In May 2005, the House of Commons narrowly passed a motion similar to the one the Conservatives are planning to put forward in the new year.
Former prime minister Paul Martin's Liberal government had been limping along, plagued by a corruption scandal. The Conservative motion called on a parliamentary committee to "recommend the government resign." It passed 153 to 150.
But the Liberal government said it would not accept the non-confidence vote as binding.
Martin called it a procedural vote that did not constitute a real vote of non-confidence in the government, and he refused to dissolve government on account of the motion.
Although this particular motion did not bring down Martin's government, opposition parties united to topple the government just a few months later, on Nov. 28, 2005.
Throwback: Paul Martin's Liberals lose non-confidence vote in 2005What if the PM prorogues Parliament?
If Trudeau decides he would like more time to consider his options, he could ask the Governor General to prorogue Parliament, which would formally end the current session and delay any motion of non-confidence from being put forward.
Prorogation suspends all parliamentary activity, including committee work.
It would be weeks until the return of the House, which could give Trudeau's Liberals time to come up with a plan to win back the support of the NDP or strike a deal with the Bloc. Without all opposition parties on board, the prime minister could survive another non-confidence vote.
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Conservatives to move non-confidence motion against Liberal government in the new year
Party says it will move 'simple and straightforward motion' once House returns
UPDATE — Jan. 6, 2024: At Trudeau's request, Parliament has been prorogued until March 24. The move suspends all parliamentary activity, which means the Conservatives can't go ahead with their plans to trigger a non-confidence vote until that date. Read more on prorogation here.
ORIGINAL STORY:
The Conservatives say they will move a motion of non-confidence in the federal Liberal government in the new year.
If all goes according to the Conservatives' plan, MPs in the House of Commons could be voting on a motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government as early as Jan. 30.
In a letter posted to X on Friday, Conservative MP John Williamson, who chairs the standing committee on public accounts, said the committee will meet on Jan. 7 to consider a motion of non-confidence in the government.
Williamson said he will introduce the result of the committee's non-confidence vote to the House on Jan. 27, when Parliament returns from its six-week winter break.
In a news release on Friday, the Conservative Party said it will also move a "simple and straightforward motion" once the House returns, stating that the committee report to the House will make the following recommendation: that the House has no confidence in the prime minister and the Liberal government.
If the motion passes, this opens the door for all MPs to debate a non-confidence motion in the House as early as Jan. 30.
"The Government no longer commands the confidence of Parliament," Williamson wrote on Friday.
He went on to say that parliamentary committees "are a microcosm of the House of Commons," making it appropriate for its members to begin these non-confidence deliberations while Parliament is adjourned.
Should the Liberal members of the committee attempt to filibuster and delay the passage of the non-confidence motion, Williamson said he is prepared to schedule committee meetings throughout January.
Opposition parties ready to topple government
Three non-confidence motions brought by the Conservatives failed in the fall.
However, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh now says he is ready to bring down the government in such a vote, following former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation from cabinet on Dec. 16.
"The NDP is prepared to support a committee-level non-confidence statement that describes how the Liberals let Canadians down," NDP House Leader Peter Julian said in a statement on Friday.
"In the past non-confidence motions passed at committee have not worked, so we will be ready with our own motion of non-confidence.
"The NDP motion will send Canadians to the polls where they will have a choice between the Conservatives' plan to cut in order to give more to CEOs or Jagmeet Singh's plan to fix health care, build homes people can afford and bring down the price of essentials — Canada's first real government for the working class."
Last week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters that the House shouldn't wait until it comes back from the winter break in January.
He shared a letter he sent to Governor General Mary Simon asking her to "urgently reconvene Parliament and require a non-confidence vote so the prime minister can judge whether he stays in power."
It's unlikely that Simon can do what Poilievre is asking her to do. The House currently stands adjourned but is still in session. According to House of Commons rules, it's up to the Speaker to recall MPs when the House is adjourned. The Governor General also has no authority to dictate the House of Commons' agenda.
But with all three of the main opposition parties now saying they want the government to fall, the Liberals are almost certain to lose the next confidence vote.
In a statement Friday morning, the Conservatives said Singh should support their motion for an earlier vote and be prepared to live up to his words.
Nothing guarantees Williamson's move will survive committee or pass in a final vote, and Singh could opt to instead wait for the NDP's own opportunity to craft the wording over the key vote, then try to claim credit for toppling the government should his motion pass.
That NDP opposition day vote, one of seven divided up among the opposition parties and scheduled by the governing party, would have to take place by March 26, according to House of Commons standing orders.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said a confidence vote must happen as soon as possible in order to trigger an election in early 2025.
"It must be understood that there is no scenario in which Justin Trudeau's Liberal government ... will survive budgets, throne speeches or opposition days," he wrote in a French social media post.
Some Liberal MPs call for leadership change
As the pressure mounts on the Liberals, some MPs are making public their calls for Trudeau to step down as leader. To date, more than 20 Liberal MPs have publicly urged Trudeau to resign — with most coming forward after Freeland's shock resignation from cabinet.
Last week at a virtual meeting of the Ontario Liberal caucus, more than 50 Ontario Liberal MPs came to a consensus that Trudeau needs to step down as party leader, multiple sources told CBC News.
On Friday, Alberta Liberal MP George Chahal sent two emails — one to the entire Liberal caucus calling for Trudeau to step down immediately and another to the Liberal Party president to begin planning for a leadership change.
"As we are in the final year prior to a fixed election date, in a minority situation where the other parties have indicated they may defeat the government, I would urge the LPC board to immediately plan for a leadership regardless of [Trudeau's] formal resignation," Chahal wrote to Liberal Party president Sachit Mehra.
"It is my view that it would be political negligence by the LPC board not to plan for the race. It is clear now the Leader of the Liberal Party no longer has the confidence of his parliamentary caucus and the vast majority of Canadians."
In an interview with CBC News Calgary, Chahal said he has been calling for a change behind closed doors "for the better part of a year," but now "time is of the essence" for the Liberals.
"I'm hoping with new leadership at the helm of the Liberal Party of Canada, we can continue to bring forward new ideas to deal with the challenges that we have in front of us," he said Friday evening.
Party needs 'real leadership race'
Whispers of who would be Trudeau's successor as Liberal leader have been growing louder in recent weeks since Freeland's resignation as deputy prime minister and finance minister.
A small number of Liberal MPs have publicly thrown their support behind Freeland as party leader. Names such as newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney have also been floating around political circles.
"By design or by circumstance, her time of resignation has put her into the spotlight. And she appears to be the person around whom the caucus members can rally behind," Ontario Liberal MP Chandra Arya told CBC's Power & Politics last week.
Gerald Butts, Trudeau's former principal secretary, said the next election will probably come sooner rather than later next year — and he doesn't think Trudeau will be leading the party into it.
In a Substack post on Friday, he wrote that the turmoil in the Liberal government makes it even more likely that the Conservatives will form a majority government.
A close associate of Carney, Butts argues that capitalizing on the "sensation" brought by Freeland's resignation and defaulting to her as the next party leader is "bad strategy" and that the only way forward for the Liberals is "a real leadership race."
"Competitions create better competitors. In politics, leadership campaigns make for better general election campaign teams," Butts wrote.
With an imminent motion of non-confidence, growing pressure from within Trudeau's own caucus to resign and an election that must take place on or before Oct. 20, 2025, the new year holds more questions than answers about the future of the Liberal Party.
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New Brunswick MP initiates new push to bring down Trudeau government
The move potentially shortens dramatically the timeline anticipated to get a confidence vote in front of MPs
Conservative New Brunswick Southwest MP John Williamson SUBMITTEDOTTAWA • New Brunswick Conservative MP John Williamson says he’s initiating a push that could bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government by the end of January.
In a letter published on Friday, Williamson, the chair of the House of Commons public accounts committee, says he’s scheduled meetings beginning Jan. 7 for its members to consider and vote on a motion of non-confidence.
He adds that the committee’s non-confidence report would be tabled in Parliament on Jan. 27, when the House of Commons restarts after a holiday break.
It could then be voted on by the House as early as Jan. 30.
The move potentially shortens dramatically the timeline anticipated to get a confidence vote in front of MPs.
It means the Conservatives won’t have to wait for what’s known as an “opposition day” in the House of Commons to call for that vote, dates that are controlled by the government, and may not have come as quickly.
“It is now clear that the Liberal government does not have the confidence of Parliament,” Williamson states in a letter, noting the Conservatives, Bloc Quebecois, and NDP have all now said they will vote non-confidence in a Trudeau-led government.
The minority Liberals need at least one other party’s support to stay in power.
“Parliamentary committees are a microcosm of the House of Commons,” Williamson continues. “Given the oversight mandate of the public accounts committee, it is appropriate for its members to begin these non-confidence deliberations while Parliament is adjourned until late January.”
Williamson also preemptively addresses the possibility of a filibuster by Liberal MPs on the committee, adding he is “prepared to schedule meetings throughout January.”
The 10-member committee includes five Liberals.
A tie would fall to Williamson to break.
The letter states he would introduce the non-confidence report in the House of Commons on the day it returns.
“This will ensure the committee’s non-confidence matter can be debated and voted on by the House of Commons as early as Thursday, Jan. 30,” Williamson concludes.
If the New Democrats join the other parties and vote in favour of it, the motion would bring down the government and spark a federal election.
Where a government can be brought down by a committee report censuring it will undoubtedly spark debate.
In 2005, the governing Liberals endured a similar maneuver from opposition parties when the House of Commons instructed a committee to recommend that the government resign.
The government at the time said the motion was a mere procedural motion and not a confidence vote.
Lyle Skinner, a constitutional lawyer from New Brunswick, said on Friday that things are different this time around.
“If the Public Accounts committee does report back to the House a report expressing non confidence, and the House adopts it, even per the 2005 precedent, it is a non-confidence motion,” Skinner said.
“A lot of ‘ifs’ but it is harder to argue it is merely procedural.”
Skinner also references a paper by Simon Fraser University professor Andrew Heard in stating that the former Paul Martin Liberal government would only view the matter as a non-confidence motion if the public accounts committee reported back censuring the government and the House adopted the motion.
That’s what is being attempted here.
Mitch Heimpel, a former Conservative strategist and now policy director of the public affairs firm Enterprise Canada, said on Friday that the Conservatives are putting pressure on the Liberal government and the NDP with the move.
“From a tactics perspective, it puts eyes on Parliament over the break, and it puts the Liberal backbenchers on the committee (some of whom probably want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to leave) in the untenable position of potentially having to filibuster to protect him,” Heimpel said.
The committee does include one other New Brunswicker besides Williamson, Conservative Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Jake Stewart, although no Liberal MPs.
The five Liberal MPs include Ontario’s Jean Yip, Valerie Bradford, Francis Drouin, and Iqra Khalid. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is also on the committee, but will need to be replaced as he’s now in Trudeau’s cabinet.
Williamson’s move also arguably throws a wrench into Trudeau’s options.
Whether the prime minister intends to resign or simply reset the agenda in his party’s favour, it has been widely speculated he would prorogue Parliament to do so.
Now, it would look like Trudeau was putting Parliament on hold to avoid a confidence vote that could bring down his government.
“It puts a question of confidence in front of Parliament. Which the Governor General would, at least theoretically, have to consider in the event of a prorogation request,” Heimpel said.
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Conservative MP John Williamson reacts to Trudeau’s resignation
John
Williamson, the Conservative MP for New Brunswick Southwest, speaks in
the House of Commons on Sept. 16, 2024. Image: ParlVu video captureConservative MP John Williamson for New Brunswick Southwest said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation was not surprising.
Trudeau declared his intention to step down as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, but only after a new leader has been elected.
Williamson stressed that Trudeau’s choice was irresponsible for paralyzing Parliament at a crucial time.
“We have so many issues that need the government’s full attention. Parliament needs to get back to work,” Williamson said.
He accused all Liberals of being the same while the Liberal Party started the process of electing a new leader.
“There is no breath of fresh air coming. It is just the ‘same old same old’ looking to replace Justin Trudeau,” he said.
“It’s basically trying to put lipstick on a pig.”
Williamson emphasized that the Conservatives will remain focused on the priorities of Canada as they prepare for an anticipated election later this year.
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Harper urged to remove MP John Williamson over 'whities' comment
Liberal MP John McCallum calls on prime minister to end silence over MP's 'racist' comments
John McCallum on 'whities' commentLiberal MP John McCallum says the prime minister should remove New Brunswick MP John Williamson from the Conservative caucus following Williamson's comments about "whities" and "brown people" in the temporary foreign worker program.
In question period Thursday, McCallum accused Stephen Harper of remaining silent on Williamson's comments, which were made last weekend.
He said Harper was giving in to "racist sentiments within his own party."
- John Williamson faces heavy criticism over 'whities' comment
- Williamson apologizes for 'offensive' comment on foreign workers program
Williamson told delegates at a conference in Ottawa that it makes no sense to pay "whities" to stay home while companies bring in "brown people" as temporary foreign workers.
New
Brunswick Southwest MP John Williamson was in Question Period on
Thursday but he did not respond to Liberal MP John McCallum's comments. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
Williamson attended question period on Thursday, but Pierre Poilievre, the minister of employment and social development, responded to McCallum's comments instead.
Poilievre ignored McCallum's remarks and referred instead to complaints made by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs about a speech by Justin Trudeau, in which the Liberal leader compared Canada’s immigration policy for Jews during the Holocaust to present-day fear-mongering about Muslims.
Williamson, a former director of communications for Harper, has called his comments about temporary workers the biggest mistake of his political career.
On Wednesday, New Brunswick member of the legislative assembly John Ames, also a Liberal, introduced a motion to condemn Williamson's comments and called them racially charged.
Sunday, 20 August 2023
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Hello,
Thank you for writing. If your e-mail did not include your full name, address, and phone number – please resend it with this information so that I can prioritize constituency requests for assistance and correspondence.
Following the dissolution of Parliament on August 15th and until the September 20th General Election, my local office in St. Stephen will remain open to assist New Brunswick Southwest residents resolve roadblocks accessing federal programs, such as:
• Employment Insurance • Canada Child Tax Benefit • Veteran's Affairs Canada Benefits • CPP, OAS and the Guaranteed Income Supplement • Canada Revenue Agency • Disability Tax Credit and Disability Pension • Citizenship and Immigration
If you reside in New Brunswick Southwest please do not hesitate to reach out.
In your service,
John Williamson, MP New Brunswick Southwest | |
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Saint John, NB (506) 633-3323   |
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Fort Frances, ON (807) 274-5341 |
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Port Hawkesbury, NS (902) 625-1220 |
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Moncton, NB (506) 857-1922 |
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Dryden, On (807) 223-2355 |
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Thunder Bay, ON (807) 344-2000 |
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Saint John, NB (506) 633-3323 |
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Bridgewater, NS (902) 543-2401 |
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Kenora, ON (807) 468-3181 |
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Yarmouth, NS (902) 742-7175 |
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Bridgewater, NS (902) 543-2401 |
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St. Stephen, NB (506) 466-1000 |
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Dartmouth, NS (902) 429-1035 |
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Dartmouth, NS (902) 429-1035 |
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Kenora, ON (807) 468-1045 |
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Thunder Bay, ON (807) 344-2000 |
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