**edit So I was off - just hadnt fund any news on it early on but seems like it is true.

Turns out the Speaker did in fact freeze Parliament. He was boxed in because if he tried to side with the govt, the opposition parties could all get together and kick him out of his job. So he had no choice.

The govt had tried to release totally redacted documents and the opposition said no. (That was the point of Privilege). So the Speaker agreed - and no govt business can be done until they give the unredacted documents over to the police/RCMP. Which will likely mean multiple members get charged since it is massive corruption.

Also one of the opposition parties in Quebec gave an ultimatum earlier in the week that unless they got a bill they wanted passed right away - they would also vote to topple the govt. That leaves the scumbag/socialist NDP - but it also boxes them in, as if the govt is frozen, they cannot 'side with the govt to get bills we want passed'. And every day they keep the govt in power while crime is going on looks worse and worse for them, so they will face losing even more seats the longer they do it.

The Liberals could either;

1. comply - meaning probably they fall apart and multiple members go to jail.
2. delay delay delay, which gets worse by the day
3. prorogue parliament (suspend it entirely) which kills all govt actions, and they could do it until June of next year if they wanted - and take the time to kick out Trudeau, elect a new leader, and hope the stink of all this doesnt follow the new leader as much

but that is also not a good option for them as they dont have anyone the least bit good to become leader, and the odds of Canada and the opposition parties just forgetting about all of this and not also blaming the Liberals in general not just Trudeau are probably close to zero.

So they have no good options here, and since the pressure is going to grow exponentially on the NDP to finally end this farce we may see an election very soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ZVd94lvXk Northern Perspectives great channel covering Canadian stuff details it.

It seems Conservatives raised a Point of Privilege, which by the rules of order has to be dealt with before moving on to other business, which is standard for any body that uses any formal 'rules of order'.

This is a huge scandal, estimates show could easily be close to a billion in kickbacks going to Liberal friends from the Development fund alone, just one department, and there are others they have been grifting with as well (which based on being 10x smaller than the States, means it would be over 10 billion comparatively) - but just like in the US, most departments are defending and hiding the corruption and refusing to cooperate.

The Conservatives have also been playing it safe, hammering away for months on the carbon tax, but being mostly silent about the massive censorship laws being passed and barely talking about illegal immigration - so not to get painted too hard as 'Trumpian', which the Liberals and media are doing anyway. But at least the Liberals are going down in polls so hard it is a shoe in baring any major missteps.

**edit So I was off - just hadnt fund any news on it early on but seems like it is true.

Turns out the Speaker did in fact freeze Parliament. He was boxed in because if he tried to side with the govt, the opposition parties could all get together and kick him out of his job. So he had no choice.

The govt had tried to release totally redacted documents and the opposition said no. (That was the point of Privilege). So the Speaker agreed - and no govt business can be done until they give the unredacted documents over to the police/RCMP. Which will likely mean multiple members get charged since it is massive corruption.

Also one of the opposition parties in Quebec gave an ultimatum earlier in the week that unless they got a bill they wanted passed right away - they would also vote to topple the govt. That leaves the scumbag/socialist NDP - but it also boxes them in, as if the govt is frozen, they cannot 'side with the govt to get bills we want passed'. And every day they keep the govt in power while crime is going on looks worse and worse for them, so they will face losing even more seats the longer they do it.

The Liberals could either;

1. comply - meaning probably they fall apart and multiple members go to jail.
2. delay delay delay, which gets worse by the day
3. prorogue parliament (suspend it entirely) which kills all govt actions, and they could do it until June of next year if they wanted - and take the time to kick out Trudeau, elect a new leader, and hope the stink of all this doesnt follow the new leader as much

but that is also not a good option for them as they dont have anyone the least bit good to become leader, and the odds of Canada and the opposition parties just forgetting about all of this and not also blaming the Liberals in general not just Trudeau are probably close to zero.

So they have no good options here, and since the pressure is going to grow exponentially on the NDP to finally end this farce we may see an election very soon.

It seems Conservatives raised a Point of Privilege, which by the rules of order has to be dealt with before moving on to other business, which is standard for any body that uses any formal 'rules of order'.

This is a huge scandal, estimates show could easily be close to a billion in kickbacks going to Liberal friends from the Development fund alone, just one department, and there are others they have been grifting with as well (which based on being 10x smaller than the States, means it would be over 10 billion comparatively) - but just like in the US, most departments are defending and hiding the corruption and refusing to cooperate.

The Conservatives have also been playing it safe, hammering away for months on the carbon tax, but being mostly silent about the massive censorship laws being passed and barely talking about illegal immigration - so not to get painted too hard as 'Trumpian', which the Liberals and media are doing anyway. But at least the Liberals are going down in polls so hard it is a shoe in baring any major missteps.

As hopeful as this would be, it seems to be misleading by Scheer (who was a terrible leader and basically let Trudeau skate to another win when he was in opposition).

It seems Conservatives raised a Point of Privilege, which by the rules of order has to be dealt with before moving on to other business, which is standard for any body that uses any formal 'rules of order'.

There are zero news stories that the Speaker has 'suspended Parliament', and since the Speaker is Liberal would seemingly never do it since he is utterly partisan and not impartial at all.

This is a huge scandal, estimates show could easily be close to a billion in kickbacks going to Liberal friends from the Development fund alone, just one department, and there are others they have been grifting with as well (which based on being 10x smaller than the States, means it would be over 10 billion comparatively) - but just like in the US, most departments are defending and hiding the corruption and refusing to cooperate.

Will this go far? hopefully. But Scheer being misleading about the delay may generate a headline, but not helpful to explain what is happening.

The Conservatives have also been playing it safe, hammering away for months on the carbon tax, but being mostly silent about the massive censorship laws being passed and barely talking about illegal immigration - so not to get painted too hard as 'Trumpian', which the Liberals and media are doing anyway. But at least the Liberals are going down in polls so hard it is a shoe in baring any major missteps.