@DC5FAN @fknretardlol @Volkish_Observer @CozyLife basically canada is split up like a puzzle into areas called ridings, that *roughly* have the similar numbers of people in them. Every election each riding elects a member of parliament that is sent to ottawa to represent the interests of that riding. Each member of parliament usually belongs to some party -- when the parties of elected MPs (members of parliament) get to ottawa after an election, either one party has to have a majority or (as in right now) some party has to have support of other MPs from the other parties enough that when they pass a "confidence motion" that it will pass (ie half of the 337* voting MPs). The person who leads the party that controls this greater half of the votes (ie his own party votes and some other votes from other parties) is elected as "prime minister" and represents our government to our King's representatives, the governor general (who he can also appoint). Sometimes there's disagreement between the parties that the governing party thinks they can overcome with time --- so they can 'prorogue' parliament ie basically by asking the King's representative for a time-out. Trudeau is on timeout right now (prorogued), but he has also resigned as leader of his party -- so his party has to elect a new leader (who will become prime minister, if they are a sitting MP and if not...that would be unusual they will probably call an election in that case, which is looking increasingly likely because the person who seems to be pulling ahead in the leadership race is a guy by the name of Mark Carney, who wasn't just the head of canada's central bank but wound up getting promoted to be the head of the UK's central bank -- one of the most powerful men in the world really). But that's speculation: Carney could lose. I am hoping he wins, personally, because if he does win the leadership race that means there will be an election sooner than later and
1) this means that the liberals and those who cooperated with them can be tossed from power, sooner than later
2) the polls are saying that the next election is going to be a conservative victory unless something really surprising happens the polls are usually an accurate-ish representation of what's going on -- one of the best case scenarios is the liberals running mark carney, and then him losing big enough that his political career is finished. Of course then we'll have to deal with the disaster that is a conservative government but canada cycles through liberal and conservative governments like the US cycles through republican and democrats every so often - it's just a fact of life and I've survived multiple conservative governments, so I know what kind of a shitshow to expect.