Mark Carney’s party sweeps to victory in three special elections
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has secured a slim majority in parliament after winning three key by-elections and attracting several opposition MPs to switch sides.
The Liberals now hold 174 of 343 seats in the House of Commons, allowing them to pass legislation without relying on other parties and potentially remain in power until 2029.
In a statement, Mr Carney congratulated the three newly elected Liberal MPs and said that the voters “have placed their trust in our new government’s plan”.
His scheme was defeated by the unforeseen and unforeseeable. His failure illustrates the truth of Herbert Spencer’s dictum that social phenomena are too complex for prevision to be possible. But without prevision, no plan can be devised that will certainly produce the effects intended. That is where social reformers and all sorts of other planners fail.
R. Austin Freeman - The Jacob Street Mystery (1942)
3 comments:
I see the law of unintended consequences warming up in the wings. The Liberal Party cannot excuse the lack of a majority for future failures. And such a slim majority is now even more at risk of defections the other way.
The wisdom of Mark Steyn: no bomb has yet been devised that could do the damage to what we used to call Christendom that the last three generations of the western political class have inflicted. We do not need to be nuked; as I wrote all those years ago in America Alone, we are our own suicide bomb.
Carney's masters will own everything and Canadians will be happy with what they are given - by order.
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