Larry Pardy 🇨🇦

Retired Federal public servant of 35 years, most recently as Dept’l Director of Governance. Father of four, grandfather of two. #LeafsForever

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@nspector4 Makes it a moot point then. Canada would never do that even under the most severe economic conditions

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@Prominent_Bryan @vix_0ii But then you no longer have responsible government and Parliament would lose its ability to hold government accountable.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@LagasseSubstack Sure but Joe Clark won an election, not a leadership race. (9 mos is still too long)

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@prairiecentrist @bruce_arthur Always bad politics to implement a policy that makes Canadians feel a greater sting every time they get gas. Every visit to see relatives. Every trip to the hospital. Every trip for a kid’s hockey game. Every vacation drive.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@irbrodie Accountability is also a concern. Parliament won’t be able to interrogate its first minister

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@bruce_arthur Your Liberal government continues to play the secure the border game. They invested $1.3 billion. They hired a fentanyl czar (how American!). Rubes or idiots?

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@David_Moscrop 😆😆😆

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@kinsellawarren Worst take ever. After all the harm that Trump has brought, greater unity is small consolation

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@stphnmaher His last as leader. But how long will the transition be?

“Even Canada is not a given”.

Shameful. Maintaining the fear-inspiring charade of a US invasion right to the end. Party before country.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@David_Moscrop Maybe. It seemed Harper was portrayed in much the same way, particularly in the run up to being PM for the first time.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@David_Moscrop I’m not sure I want us in the same bill as Panama and Greenland.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@priddlecorp @joe_warmington Like much of our system, we rely on conventions and practices, only some that are constitutional in nature. This one creates legitimacy for the mandate that a new PM seeks to implement. Cdns choose who governs them

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@joe_warmington John Turner didn’t try to govern without a seat. He didn’t introduce a Speech from the Throne or try to pass legislation.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@priddlecorp @joe_warmington We have a confidence convention but also every PM also seeks a mandate from voters through an election. We don’t switch PMs within the same Parliament without going to the polls shortly after.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

At least one federal leader is echoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using the tariff issue to his own party’s advantage.

https://t.co/O176rKq8tq

[National Post @nationalpost]

NP View: Canada needs to secure the Arctic — now https://t.co/jKczPUPYmk

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@PardyBruce @JanJekielek So destroy the country to fix its governance?

Doesn’t make a lot of sense.

[Larry Pardy 🇨🇦 @PardyLarry]

@AdrianMorrow @bruce_arthur So a month after the comments on borders etc, the matter seems to have been dropped. But here’s our ambassador trying to keep it alive. No doubt to enhance Liberal election prospects.

[Doug Saunders @DougSaunders]

There are serious Canadian commentators now proposing the development of a Canadian nuclear deterrent. I know we went from zero to guerilla insurgency in three days, but let’s take it down a notch.