Matthew Edginton

Matthew Zheng Wen Edginton PC MP is a model parliamentarian who served as Prime Minister of Canada in 2023, and was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Waterloo in November 2019. Although he was born and currently resides in Ontario, Edginton was raised in Manitoba, which affected his response to the Southern Manitoba Secession Crisis of 2021.
In the autumn of 2022, Edginton was one of the founding members and the leader of the newly formed Pirate Party. After the Black and Yellow Coalition, consisting of the Pirate Party and No Name Party, came second in the 2022 General Election, Edginton became the Leader of the Official Opposition. After the collapse of the Seal-Taylor-Guide (GST Coalition) Government, Edginton was invited to lead the new government with and was appointed Prime Minister. Forced to resign amid scandal shortly after, Edginton now sits on the backbenches as an independent.
== MPSP20 ==
Edginton joined the Rat Party and stood as a candidate for the party going into the 2019 General Election. The Rat Party won 127 seats in the election, the largest in MPSP history. However, the party failed to secure a majority of the seats in the house. The second-place FAM Party, with 100 seats, reached a confidence and supply agreement with the Plastics (19 seats) and the Cyborg Party (10 seats) to form a government that held the confidence of the house. Therefore, Edginton became a member of the Official Opposition.
Edginton was appointed Shadow Minister for Public Safety in the Rat Party Shadow Cabinet. During the sitting days, he served in the official opposition. He supported the effort to pass both opposition motions from the Rat Party and Plastics, which both passed by wide margins. The FAM government lost the confidence of the House by mid-afternoon on the first day.
The Rat Party then formed the new government, and due to his experience in the position of Shadow Minister, Edginton was appointed Minister of Public Safety. He opposed the opposition motion from the new Under the Sea Party, which had replaced FAM as the official opposition, as well as the private member's bill from the GOP which attacked zoomers and youth culture.
Sensing the imminent fall of the Rat Party government, Edginton voted against the government bill. He then joined his fellow members of Young M.U.F.F.I.N. (a merger of the former Zoomer Party of Canada and L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.) in defecting from the government, as well as from a number of opposition parties.
Young M.U.F.F.I.N. secured a majority government for the afternoon of the second day, and Edginton was appointed Deputy Government House Leader. He was promoted to Government House Leader upon the resignation of his predecessor amid scandal.
== MPSP21 ==
In the fall of 2020, Edginton initially joined the newly formed Rebound Party, which focused on second chances and bouncing back after breakups. Shortly before election night however, a flurry of mergers occurred, between the major parties, resulting in Rebound merging with the Drama Party to form the Take Two Party. Disillusioned with the new direction of the party, Edginton left Take Two to join the Totally Real People United by Zoom (TRPUZ), itself a merger of the Totally Real People Party and the United Zoomers.
On election night, Edginton was reelected as the member of parliament for Waterloo with over 54% of the vote. TRPUZ was elected to a minority government with 82 seats, while Take Two formed the official opposition with 72 seats. Two third parties achieved official party status: the Devil's Advocate Dominion (DAD) and the Non Confrontational Party of Most Sublime Gloriousness, each with 12 seats. There was also a record number of independent members elected, with 76 being sent to the House of Commons.
Edginton was appointed Minister of Finance in the TRPUZ de Silvia-Legault Ministry in early in December 2020. He was sworn in on the 16th of January 2021.
On the morning of the first sitting day, Edginton presented the government's bill the Real Canada Act. Concerned with the rise of the crustacean lobby and crab extremists, as well as with the instability of the TRPUZ government, Edginton resigned from the government to sit as an independent, and also spoke in support of the private member's bill to create an Acadian sub-nation proposed Chelsey-Lynn Rousselle. The TRPUZ government was toppled with the defeat of the Real Canada Act.
On the morning of the second sitting day, the Take Two Party along with their coalition partners formed government. Edginton became a founding member of the Looney Tooney Party of Canada, which had formed a coalition with the Beach-Barbz Front to form the Barb Toones Coalition. Edginton was appointed as the Critic for Daiquiris and Inclusion and Youth in the Barb Toones Shadow Cabinet. After the fall of the Take Two government in the afternoon, the Barb Toones Coalition became the new government and Edginton became the President of the Privy Council. Edginton led the government's response to the Southern Manitoba Secession Crisis, stating that Southern Manitoba would not be allowed to leave confederation under any circumstances, as well as refusing the intervention of New Frengland as a third party mediator.
== MPSP22 ==
Heading into the 2021 general election Edginton joined the No Aliens Here (NAH) Party in his bid to be reelected to the House of Commons. On election, Edginton was reelected to represent the riding of Waterloo for a third term, albeit with a much reduced vote count of 31%, and a margin of only 280 votes. The NAH Party would go on to win 38 seats, forming the official opposition. The Monkey Party formed a minority government with 42 seats, while the FLIP Party came in third with 13 seats. 52 independent MPs were also elected.
Shortly before sitting days, Edginton was appointed Deputy Whip of the Official Opposition and Shadow Minister for Bays, Canals, Channels, Lakes, Oceans, Ponds, Rivers, Straits, Swamps and Shrek.
One the first sitting day, disagreement about the NAH Party's militaristic approach to the imminent Alien Invasion, Edginton crossed the floor to the Monkey Party government, saying in a statement that he would: focus on the friendship between monkeys and aliens, in order to ensure the long term peace and security of Canada." He was subsequently appointed Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, Seamonkeys and the Canadian Coast Guard If We Have Time I Guess. However, this state of affairs would not last, and later that same day, Edginton indicated his intention to vote against the government's bill and consequently resigned from cabinet, cited the principle of Cabinet Collective Responsibility. This resignation was purportedly precipitated by a the Government Whip's strict voting instructions for the Monkey Caucus. Edginton did not spend long on the backbenches, however, as shortly before the votes on the opposition motions and government bill, Edginton crossed the floor back to the NAH Party.
After the collapse of the Monkey Party government, the NAH Party was invited to form a new government, in which Edginton was appointed Minister for the Military-Industrial Complex. After a short stint in that role, he resigned to take a private sector position in the defence industry, allegedly to cash in on the imminent war against the aliens. During this time, Edginton remained a backbencher in the NAH government.
Due to his notable lack of loyalty to either major party, and the sporadic nature of his frontbench positions, Edginton was recognized by the media as the “Most Likely to Cross the Floor”.
== MPSP23 ==
In the fall of 2022, Edginton, alongside 5 other new and returning model parliamentarians, founded the Pirate Party. Claiming to have criss-crossed the country to speak to Canadians, Edginton declared that it had been too long since pirates had real representation in Ottawa. Prior to the 2022 General Election, the Pirate Party entered into a coalition agreement with the No Name Party, known as the Black and Yellow Coalition (the BYC).
On election night, the Pirate Party came second, winning 56 seats, and the BYC also came second with 89 seats (33 for the No Name Party) compared to 124 for the coalition between the Seal Party (37 seats), Taylor’s Party (57 seats), and Guide Party (30 seats), known as the GST Coalition. As a result of their respective coalition agreements, Nicholas Guindon, Edginton's former NAH Party colleague and now leader of the Seal Party, was appointed Prime Minister-designate, while Edginton was appointed Leader of the Official Opposition. Notably, Edginton publicly called into question the result of the 2022 election, claiming that the election had been "stolen" from the Pirate Party.
The GST Coalition Government did not last long, and Edginton, as the Leader of the Pirate Party was invited to form a new government with the support of the No Name Party, and was subsequently appointed as Prime Minister. However, his tenure was short-lived, as a report from the Ethics Commissioner revealed that he was in fact the twin brother of former-Prime Minister Guindon, with the ensuing scandal forcing him to resign.
Edginton then sat as an independent with the Rizz Honourables Caucus of the other former Prime Ministers. Notably, during his tenure he also granted the first ever Right Honourable titles to non-Prime Ministers, to Speaker Chelsey-Lynn Rousselle, Clerk Tim Gulliver, and Sergeant-at-Arms Sebastien Arsenault.
Given his rhetoric around the validity of the election results, Edginton was recognized by the media as the "Most Likely to Steal the Election".
== MPSP24 ==
In the 2023 Election, Edginton was elected to represent Waterloo for a fifth term, this time as an independent.
During the sitting days, Edginton participated as a member of the Finance Committee, questioning the Minister of Air and Natural Resources about his alleged ties to the air industry and potential conflicts of interest. In the chamfer, Edginton spoke his government's success in flooding the cities of Toronto and Vaughan the previous year, and he also tried and failed to gain the unanimous consent of the House to declare January "Former Prime Ministers Heritage Month".
Edginton was also presented with the "Procedural Whiz Award" by the media.