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Plus judges, lieutenant governors, member of parliament, and a hockey sock of other odds and sods that are Federal.
2025 Federal Election - 28 Apr 25
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Brad Sallows
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I have followed US politics fairly closely for a couple of decades now and remember several presidential elections in which the eventual losers were convinced they were going to win by the enthusiasm of their rally goers or the number of yard signs. Those are not useful indicators.
Poilievre has to stop sounding like someone who is vaguely (let alone explicitly) dissatisfied with Canada and Canadian society and an unhappy warrior. And he has to stop competing with the other parties on giveaways and more spending. They will always out-bid conservatives as long as conservatives are being honest. And when conservatives are not being honest, it shows.
Whatever his faults, Carney looks like a serious person who belongs in rooms full of serious people talking about serious things. Poilievre has to look like he belongs there, too. Every cheap shot Poilievre or a lieutenant takes makes him look like he belongs at a kids' table. The CPC has to stop the f*cking "gotcha"; it almost always turns out to be based on incorrect or incomplete facts anyways.
We find ourselves in rare total agreement.
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Poilievre behaves like Copps, Tobin and Nunziata did in the Mulroney era: gadfly gotcha complainers who were unsuitable to be the adult in the room.
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Might be a big overlap between the biggest complainers about that and those who say Doug Ford is becoming not Blue enough.
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I’m gonna be a titch more charitable and say far more comfortable as the attack dog. PP’s getting a bit better, but my sense is he’s still loving the pokey-pokey more than the other stuff. Not impossible to turn around, but the clock IS ticking …
Quirky
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Good idea, but won't get the boomer/retired vote.
www.ctvnews.ca
Poilievre pitching tax writeoffs for people in trades travelling to work
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to expand the writeoff that trade workers can declare for work travel.
www.ctvnews.ca
The LPC have dropped a Calgary candidate because he failed to disclose a domestic assault charge that was laid and stayed back in 2005.
Interesting tidbit from the article, parties have until the 22nd day of the campaign (April 13th) to replace a candidate.
Interesting tidbit from the article, parties have until the 22nd day of the campaign (April 13th) to replace a candidate.
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Ford being friendly and willing to work with Carney is probably paying off for the liberals in Ontario with undecided voters who seek a more collaborative approach with Ottawa
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Hate to say it but I feel that Ford would not have a good relationship with PP if he became PM.
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True? Sounds and looks like it. I guess we'll see next week.
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I would certainly be talking to a lawyer. Preferably one of those real yappy ones, like Jackie Chiles.
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More than one political observer has said that Ontario has been known to keep one team in power provincially while happy to elect another team into power in Ottawa. Maybe this time, instead of Red vs. Blue, if PP wins, it'll be Blue vs. Blue Light?
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Canadians who arent planning on voting CPC arent motivated to do so by Poilievre pointing out shit bag behavior to them.
The'll downplay the behavioror convince thelves the CPC would be worse.
They kept the LPC in power for 10 years scandal after scandal. Missing 50 billion?Thats in the past. They're not going to turn on their fresh new guy after a month of gotchyas. Poilievre needs to grow up and ramp up the bullship campaign promises.
Except that Trump has explicitly said he wants to bring auto manufacturing within the U.S. and specifically intends to use tariffs to do so. Because of the integrated supply chain it will take some time to certify the portion of value based on origin of specific components, but it also explicitly says that once that mechanism is in place there will be a tariff on the portion of the vehicle value that reflects Canadian and Mexican components. That facebook poster seems to be pretending that just because the mechanism isn’t in place yet, it voids the explicitly communicated plans and intent.True? Sounds and looks like it. I guess we'll see next week.
While Trump’s record of following through on economic threats isn’t super consistent, he’s followed through on enough - including steel and aluminum tariffs - that not taking it seriously and responding accordingly is stupid.
No tariffs on US origin parts is helpful for the assemblers, but does nothing for Canadian parts manufacturers. There are far more Canadians working in parts than in final assembly. This will also have the future effect of reducing or eliminating the addition of new assembly lines or parts production in Canada. Until now, we could predict that as new car lines are established, some portion of the production would be established in Canada. Going forward we can no longer count on that. Lines may be closed rather than re-tooled.
So yes, there is an element of crisis to this. That video argues the equivalent of standing the middle of the highway and pretending there’s no danger because you haven’t actually been struck yet.
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OldSolduer
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I have this to say:
The LPC claims to be "the natural governing party of Canada".
IMO its arrogant and presumes just by their existence they should govern, like divine right.
The LPC claims to be "the natural governing party of Canada".
IMO its arrogant and presumes just by their existence they should govern, like divine right.
MilEME09
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That claim has a fair bit of history though since the majority of Canada's history has been liberal government's. Absolutely sounds arrogant but I get the origins of the statement
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Just a (pedantic on my part) reminder here: just because the party membership wants this =/= a commitment by the leader to do it. Still worth keeping an eye on, but like those who would say "it's there, so it's gonna be done", it's more "it's there, so that's what the convention wants done."
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My riding in the 905 belt is safely Conservative but unless PP is able to turn things around I suspect we may see a Liberal minority or small majority with the usual East/West and Urban/Rural split we've seen in the past.
With the economic crisis we're facing and the fact that solving it also means solving those exact East/West and Urban/Rural splits in my ideal world if Carney becomes PM, rather than governing with the support of the NDP I'd love to see him reach out to the Conservatives to form a coalition government to resolve this crisis and move Canada forward in a much more united way to greater economic and military independence.
PP as Deputy PM and a Western Conservative as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources as a start along with a strong bi-partisan Defence policy so that there is agreement on our major equipment procurements.
Similarly, if the Conservatives are in a minority government situation I'd rather them reach out to the Liberals to form a coalition "National Emergency" government rather than having to pander to the NDP or BQ for their support.
Highly unlikely to happen but in my opinion would be one of the better possible outcomes of this election.
With the economic crisis we're facing and the fact that solving it also means solving those exact East/West and Urban/Rural splits in my ideal world if Carney becomes PM, rather than governing with the support of the NDP I'd love to see him reach out to the Conservatives to form a coalition government to resolve this crisis and move Canada forward in a much more united way to greater economic and military independence.
PP as Deputy PM and a Western Conservative as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources as a start along with a strong bi-partisan Defence policy so that there is agreement on our major equipment procurements.
Similarly, if the Conservatives are in a minority government situation I'd rather them reach out to the Liberals to form a coalition "National Emergency" government rather than having to pander to the NDP or BQ for their support.
Highly unlikely to happen but in my opinion would be one of the better possible outcomes of this election.
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