{"id":13444,"date":"2021-09-14T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:15:32","slug":"backgrounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/backgrounder\/","title":{"rendered":"BACKGROUNDERBACKGROUNDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backgrounder on how a majority in Parliament clearly supported the Trudeau government, and clearly opposed Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s snap election call<\/h2>\n

(September 15, 2021)<\/h3>\n
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  1. Prime Minister Trudeau and almost all MPs<\/a><\/span> in the House of Commons, including all Liberals, voted at the end of May against holding an election<\/a><\/span> while COVID is still a danger, which it clearly is<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n \t
  2. All opposition leaders opposed holding an election. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh<\/a><\/span> on July 27th, and the Green Party caucus<\/a><\/span> on July 29th, wrote to Governor General Mary Simon calling on her to say no if Trudeau requested that an election being called because the government clearly had the confidence of Parliament, and an election would increase the risk to Canadians because of COVID.<\/li>\n \t
  3. Conservative Party leader Erin O\u2019Toole said<\/a><\/span> on August 9th, before the election call that \u201cMy biggest concern right now is the potential fourth wave of COVID-19. We shouldn\u2019t be rushing to an election\u201d and then he reacted<\/a><\/span> on August 15th to Trudeau\u2019s election call by saying it was \u201cunnecessary\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d and for \u201cpolitical gain.\u201d<\/li>\n \t
  4. On August 3, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet said<\/a><\/span> that \u201cParliament is functioning, and can function\u201d and \u201cThe Bloc Quebecois did not ask for an election\u201d and that calling an election would be \u201cirresponsible\u201d and would \u201cincrease the level of danger\u201d for voters (See English version of article here<\/a><\/span>).<\/li>\n \t
  5. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wrote Trudeau<\/a> on August 9, 2021, summarizing the support that the NDP had given to government bills since the last elections, affirming the NDP\u2019s ongoing support for government bills that had not been passed before Parliament adjourned for the summer, and asking him to open Parliament.<\/li>\n \t
  6. Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said<\/a><\/span> on August 15, 2021 that the election call was \u201cunimaginable\u201d given various emergency situations, and \u201cunwarranted and unwanted\u201d and that \u201cUnfortunately public health has lost out to partisan ambition and common sense has lost to the quest for power.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n \n\n

    Backgrounder on how a majority in Parliament clearly supported the Trudeau government, and clearly opposed Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s snap election call<\/h2>\n

    (September 15, 2021)<\/h3>\n
      \n \t
    1. Prime Minister Trudeau and almost all MPs<\/a><\/span> in the House of Commons, including all Liberals, voted at the end of May against holding an election<\/a><\/span> while COVID is still a danger, which it clearly is<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n \t
    2. All opposition leaders opposed holding an election. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh<\/a><\/span> on July 27th, and the Green Party caucus<\/a><\/span> on July 29th, wrote to Governor General Mary Simon calling on her to say no if Trudeau requested that an election being called because the government clearly had the confidence of Parliament, and an election would increase the risk to Canadians because of COVID.<\/li>\n \t
    3. Conservative Party leader Erin O\u2019Toole said<\/a><\/span> on August 9th, before the election call that \u201cMy biggest concern right now is the potential fourth wave of COVID-19. We shouldn\u2019t be rushing to an election\u201d and then he reacted<\/a><\/span> on August 15th to Trudeau\u2019s election call by saying it was \u201cunnecessary\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d and for \u201cpolitical gain.\u201d<\/li>\n \t
    4. On August 3, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet said<\/a><\/span> that \u201cParliament is functioning, and can function\u201d and \u201cThe Bloc Quebecois did not ask for an election\u201d and that calling an election would be \u201cirresponsible\u201d and would \u201cincrease the level of danger\u201d for voters (See English version of article here<\/a><\/span>).<\/li>\n \t
    5. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wrote Trudeau<\/a> on August 9, 2021, summarizing the support that the NDP had given to government bills since the last elections, affirming the NDP\u2019s ongoing support for government bills that had not been passed before Parliament adjourned for the summer, and asking him to open Parliament.<\/li>\n \t
    6. Green Party Leader Annamie Paul said<\/a><\/span> on August 15, 2021 that the election call was \u201cunimaginable\u201d given various emergency situations, and \u201cunwarranted and unwanted\u201d and that \u201cUnfortunately public health has lost out to partisan ambition and common sense has lost to the quest for power.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Backgrounder on how a majority in Parliament clearly supported the Trudeau government, and clearly opposed Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s snap election call (September 15, 2021) Prime Minister Trudeau and almost all MPs in the House of Commons, including all Liberals, voted at the end of May against holding an election while COVID is still a danger, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18410,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions\/18410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}