In a none too shocking move, Tony Valeri has pushed the opposition days back to the end of the House’s sitting, dealing a blow to anyone who has a fall election date in their pool. For those who haven’t already done the math, if the Tories were to use their first opposition day to bring down the government, that would set us up for a Boxing Day election. It’s also fairly obvious the Liberals won’t bring forward any confidence motions they wouldn’t want to fight an election over.

The CPC has made it clear they won’t trigger an election without the NDP but if Jack decides he wants to go now, that means we’re back to bizarre parliamentary conventions and procedures no one has ever heard about. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a quasi-confidence vote which could force the new GG into an awkward position.