Der konservative Abgeordnete von Quebec, Richard Martel, verlässt die Fraktion, um in den Senat berufen zu werden
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-richard-martel-quebec-conservative-mp-senate-appointment/
Der konservative Abgeordnete von Quebec, Richard Martel, verlässt die Fraktion, um in den Senat berufen zu werden
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-richard-martel-quebec-conservative-mp-senate-appointment/
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Another CPC MP bites the dust. At least Poilievre can be relieved that he’s losing this MP to the senate rather than to the LPC.
This will be an interesting by-election too since the 2025 election saw pretty nearly a three way tie between the CPC, BQ, and LPC.
This seems like 5D chess from Carney and it’s politically incredibly smart.
By appointing Martel, a Conservative, to the Senate, it eliminated any way for Poilievre to claim this is politically motivated without looking incredibly stupid. Martel would’ve had to accept this too. This then vacates Chicoutimi—Le Fjord which LPC has believed it could flip for the past little while.
Either way, this is incredibly interesting from a standpoint of political strategy and may induce a LPC seat gain without a floor crossing.
By my count, this brings the total of senators appointed by LPC prime ministers to 86 out of 99. There are still six vacancies which I imagine will be appointed before Carney’s term is up, plus one CPC appointee who is hitting mandatory retirement in 2027, so by the end of Carney’s first term, we’ll probably be at 93 out of 105 LPC appointees.
For someone with no prior policy experience, I have to say that Carney is making political moves at the House of Communs that previous PMs could only have dreamed of.
PMO announcement says this guyn was a junior hockey coach and commissioner
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/backgrounders/2026/07/07/richard-martel
Slightly different headline at CBC:
> Carney appoints one of his top advisers and a Conservative MP to Senate
> Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first Senate appointments include one of his most senior advisers and a Conservative MP as he pushes to restore some partisan voices to an upper house that has been largely devoid of them for the last decade. The move is already sending shockwaves through the Senate chamber as Carney signals he’s taking a step back from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s decade-long experiment of stacking the Red Chamber with almost exclusively nonpartisan figures. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-senate-tom-pitfield-9.7261037
In fact, the article is so different I think I’ll post it seperately if the mods permit … Edit: Nevermind. Already there.