🇨🇦 Four vacant seats, three byelections, one transparent stunt

Mark Carney found four empty ridings and somehow only discovered urgency in three. What a miracle of Liberal timing. The government can call a byelection within 180 days, but apparently democratic representation is now a menu item, not an obligation. As reported, the skipped riding was Battle River Crowfoot, where Pierre Poilievre is expected to run after losing his seat. So this was not procedure. It was petty gatekeeping by an Ottawa machine that treats voters like props.

This is the Trudeau-Carney model in miniature: preach democracy, manipulate mechanics. The same class that lectures Canadians about norms, inclusion, and trust in institutions has no problem slow-walking representation when it inconveniences the regime. Liberal elites will happily redraw the country through mass immigration, hollow out sovereignty for global approval, and then play games with byelectoral timing to box out opponents. They are not defending democracy. They are managing it like a brand.

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