April 13 By-Elections
Cynical Liberal Use of By-Elections
Prime Minister Mark Carney, using his prerogative as Prime Minister to call elections, chose Monday, April 13 for by-elections to fill vacancies in the House of Commons for the ridings of Terrebonne in Quebec, and University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest in Ontario. The University–Rosedale seat was vacated when Liberal Chrystia Freeland resigned to work with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the capacity of a voluntary advisor. Bill Blair resigned his Scarborough Southwest seat following his appointment to be Canada's High Commissioner in the UK. The riding of Terrebonne became vacant when the Supreme Court of Canada invalidated the judicial recount of the results of the April 25, 2025 general election which gave Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste a one vote majority over Bloc Québécois incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné.
When the by-elections were announced, the Liberal government had 169 seats in Parliament, just three shy of a majority in Canada's House of Commons which has 343 seats. The two Ontario seats are considered Liberal shoo-ins while the Liberals are expected to pull out all the stops to win in Terrebonne. Should the Liberals win all three ridings, they will secure 172 seats in the House of Commons which is considered a majority. However, since one of the Liberal seats is occupied by the Speaker of the House who can only vote in the case of a tie, even with three victories, the only path to what is considered a safe Liberal majority government is through the continued unscrupulous orchestration of Conservative or other cartel party defections.
The same day the by-elections were announced, the Liberals are said to have "hit the ground running" in Terrebonne with appeals to electors to vote for them. Also, the same day, the results of a series of polls were announced with great fanfare claiming that should a general election be held today Mark Carney would win by a wide margin, that he is the most popular Prime Minister ever and that what Canada needs today is a national unity government under Mark Carney. None of this propaganda is in any way, shape or form accompanied with information on any matters of concern to the people, but it does confirm that the Liberal campaign in Terrebonne will be a very dirty and sordid affair to secure a Liberal win.
It is also clear that the Terrebonne election will reveal whether the Quebec electorate make up their minds to secure a Bloc win by going all out to defeat the Liberals whose agenda to Make Canada Strong is seen as very harmful for Quebec in particular, as well as Canada as a whole. The Liberal agenda stands contrary to the claims of the Quebec working class and people to increase investments in social programs and end pay-the-rich schemes which have opened the floodgates to plunder Quebec's natural resources to serve narrow private interests and the U.S. war machine. This increases environmental destruction which Quebeckers vehemently oppose and also subjects the working class to increasingly oppressive and unsafe working conditions as a result of degraded environmental and health and safety regulations while undermining union protections. The Liberal agenda is restructuring the federal state in a manner which further subjugates Quebec to federal control. The usurpation of state powers at the federal level by supranational narrow private interests further marginalizes Quebeckers from decision-making in general at both federal and Quebec levels.
All three by-elections exhibit the corruption of the system of party government. Citizens and residents are reduced to those called "electors" who have no say whatsoever over the decisions made by what are called their representatives. Calling MPs representatives is itself a fraud because they are all part of a party machine at the disposal of an agenda set by supranational narrow private interests. The system guarantees that the people lack representation at any level, from calling elections to choosing candidates to controlling information. There is no guarantee to an informed vote or to deciding how public monies given to the cartel parties are spent. On the contrary, everything is done to contrive election results so that the most powerful financial and state-backed interests win under the hoax that electors are exercising "free choice."
It is hoped that in all three ridings, the people will speak out in their own name by making their claims on society ring out loud and clear. It is hoped that in Terrebonne, the people make sure the Liberals are soundly defeated in this by-election. It is hoped they will be able to smash the arrogance of the Carney government which is using ministerial powers to pass laws, regulations and measures which destroy the natural and social environment, trample hereditary and treaty rights of Indigenous Peoples in the mud, subject Canada to the U.S. war machine, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Opposition to the agenda of the Carney government is required today to affirm that it is the people who are sovereign, not those who have usurped the decision-making power through fraudulent elections which marginalize the people and deprive them of their right to participate in governance to make decisions which affect their lives.
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 6 - March 11, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560061.HTM
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