6 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 HELL ADVOCATE WHAT VOTERS TELLING THEM fPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals want to understand what most Canadians are repeatedly telling them these days, they should heed the words of Oliver Cromwell to the British Rump Parliament of 1653. “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing,” Cromwell thundered. “Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” Now, we don’t endorse what Cromwell did. Furious with what he viewed as an incompetent parliament, Cromwell stormed the House of Commons with an armed force, removed its occupants and declared himself Lord Protec- tor of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Today, of course, we don’t remove governments that have lost the confidence of the people by force, but through elections. That said, Trudeau and the Lib- erals keep ignoring the message Canadians have been sending them for more than a year of opinion polls, indicating that if an election was held today it would result in a massive majori ty for the Conservatives. ESTABLISH bp eo ANDY BADER, EDITOR Published weekly by the Mitchell Advocate, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. Deadline for letters to the editor is Fridays at 9 a.m. the week prior to publication. E-mail to: abader@postmedia.com LIBERALS IGNORING ARE Nor have they accepted that Liberal support across Canada is so low that they keep losing byelections in ridings that were once bastions of Liberal support in Toronto and Montreal. Ridings that were, as the old saying goes, Liberal strongholds where they could run, figurative- ly speaking, dogs as candidates and still win. To be clear, Trudeau and the Lib- erals have every right to continue in office for another year if they can attract enough support from the opposition parties to avoid defeat on a motion of non-confi- dence, such as a budget bill. The bad news is now that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has pulled out of his deal with Trudeau that would have put off an election until next fall, the PM will have to make deals with the Bloc Que- becois for support. Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has made it crystal clear that in return for his party’s support the Liberals will have to grant concessions to Quebec. Obviously, that isn’t a great prescription for national unity, so the best advice for now is to hold on tight because the politi- cal terrain in Ottawa is about to get very bumpy. Postmedia There's a time for everything - even at 6 a.m ANDY BADER Season's Pass It isn’t until he first t weekend of November th: clocks Pee at hour - “spring ahead ... fall back,” remember? 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