Pondering I really want to take you as being sincere but you are making it very difficult. This is what you said that started the controversy:
"Yup. This is amazing. The situation just went critical. In my opinion this is about more than just SNC-Lavelin. That they are both leaving cabinet but remaining in caucus makes me wonder if there is a coup in the offing. As I understand our system, The House of Commons "elects" the PM. That is, if Trudeau loses the confidence of the house the house can choose someone else to support even if Trudeau remains the leader of the party."
First you said that the House elects the PM - they do not they provide confidence or not in a government that the GG has allowed to present itself to the government.
Second you talked about the renegades and mentionned the word coup -- suggesting that they could somehow take leadership. That is impossible.
third you said if Trudeau loses confidence you said that the House may choose someone else. Not true -- only a party leader in opposition could appeal to the GG who at this stage woudl simply allow an election.
You have really been trying to backtrack on what you said all the way to your latest post instead of just admitting that you were incorrect and moving on. It really is a sad state when you fight lost battles. Once proven wrong there is nothing more you can gain. Now you are blaming other people for attacking a position that is discredited and proven wrong. You have only yourself to blame for not backing down gracefully and accepting what you initially said and how it is different from what you are pretending it was now.
Really Pondering you have a lot of good relations with many people here now recovered after this bad habit of going down with the ship on every lost argument. Why not just let a loss go rather than double down on it?
You very clearly implied a mechanism for one of the renegades to take Trudeau's position. Why pretend otherwise? Your words are clear!
As well since there is no mechnism to remove Trudeau without having the Liberal government fall, it makes your speculation all the more ridiculous. There is absolutely no indication that the two former cabinet members would consider a vote of non-confidence agaisnt their own government (yes they are backbenchers bu stating they are still Liberals). Your sepculation makes absolutely no sense when you try to spin from your initial comment to the one you have today. This is really embarassing for you. Why do this?
Many people here get things wrong and do not turn every instance of that into a 4 page thread fighting a lost cause.
BTW - I had stopped posting here for a bit becuase of the thread claiming that China is being attacked unfairly by posters here. the last straw was Kopotkin's bullying implication that any who want to criticize China are imperialists. Since I do criticize China but also defend it at other times and very much admire the country and civilization. Even so I wrote to you a private message to help you by giving the information that you could easily have verified by googling. Instead you keep doubling down.