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By Vincent Papequash

Throne Speech

Throne Speech aftermath leaves non-confidence vote on the table

Sep 23, 2020 | 1:39 PM

OTTAWA – Today the Governor General, Julie Payette, delivered the throne speech in the Senate. The throne speech has been long-awaited since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogated parliament last month.

The Governor General listed 4 foundations to the throne speech:

1. Fighting the pandemic and protecting Canadians
2. Supporting businesses, and people
3. Rebuilding a stronger Canada
4. Standing up for who we are as Canadians by addressing gender inequality and systemic racism, reconciliation, and fighting discrimination

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The government will continue to work towards finding a vaccine. Canada has also pledged to help the provinces and territories with increased testing.

Another main point was job creation, with the government launching a program to create over one million jobs. It will also invest more into the Canada Student Wage Subsidy, so that employers can continue to hire students.

Bob Zimmer, Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies says, “from our perspective, especially in our riding, we’ve lost a lot of jobs.”

Zimmer says, “the CEWS [Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy] program, it aims to help employers and employees, but it really doesn’t deal with getting us all back to work and our economy chugging again.”

Regarding whether the Conservative Party will assent to the throne speech, Zimmer says, “we will absolutely vote it down, I guess the next question is which other opposition parties will as well.”

Taylor Bachrach, Member of Parliament for Skeena-Bulkley Valley released a statement today. Bachrach says, “While the Throne Speech was filled with nice things and made big promises, unfortunately the Prime Minister has shown in the past a pattern of not matching his words with action.”

Bachrach continues, “Serious questions remain about the government’s commitment to supporting Canadians who have lost income as a result of the pandemic, their willingness to implement bold and immediate action to address the climate crisis and their preparedness to ensure that our healthcare system has the resources it needs to fight the pandemic.”

It is unclear whether the NDP are going to join the Conservative Party of Canada in voting down the throne speech. If they do, it would mean a vote of non-confidence, and the fall of the Liberal government.