New provincial motto: Have you ever really looked at your hand?

All of which is to say, if Alberta is looking for a way to deal with misconduct by members, it probably already has one?

The House of Commons came close to using that power in 2014, but, as it stands, the last MP to be tossed was Fred Rose in 1947.

macleans.ca/politics/wha...

I'll put it in my calendar.

I can't claim to be an expert in the particular rules and laws of the Alberta legislature, but generally speaking (to my limited understanding), parliamentary legislatures have the power to police their own members, up to and including expelling a member and declaring a seat vacant.

The idea that voter-initiated recalls should be reserved for "misconduct" is probably worth parsing though — because the Alberta legislature itself presumably already has the power to police such things?

Guys, we are winning the trade war.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The temporary signs (that were meant to replace the cameras) are too big to be installed, but also they can't be installed until the spring anyway.

Other measures still pending.

See, I read his comments as saying that Trudeau had asked for a plan and didn't get one.

But I guess I can see the logic of maintaining a flexible idea.

I assume what people want to say is that a given political act was "performative" or "hollow" or "shallow."

But if so, just say that.

On an unrelated point, I struggle with the phrase "virtue signalling."

Is it bad to signal virtues? Don't all political leaders do that (even if they disagree about which virtues to signal)?

If we had the UK's ratio of people to MPs, we would have 392 MPs.

And it might be noted that the UK Parliament is generally credit with having much less party discipline and far more independent MPs than our own.

Some quick math, using Wikipedia for population counts.

UK pop: 69,281,437
UK MPs 650
Ratio: 106,587

Australia pop. 27,400,013
Aus MPs 150
Ratio: 182,667

France pop. 68,606,000
French MPs 577
Ratio: 118,901