The flake proves the label; the Opposition promotes stability.
Trudeau’s speech was unremarkable in its delivery. But the content, and the subsequent question-and-answer session with reporters, were anything but. The Liberal leader unveiled a series of 32 proposals, many of which singly, if implemented, would transform Canadian democracy.
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Small-business tax cuts, support for manufacturing, infrastructure spending; it was fare of the kind you’d have heard in a speech 20 years ago from a federal Liberal minister. In effect, Mulcair is making an unabashed play for the moderate, conservative centre.
Turdeau is simply a flake. He’s adrift without an anchor. He has absolutely no idea what voters want. Harper spent the first 5 years in office with a weekly procedural scandal. Nobody gives an ats rass about Parliamentary procedure. And that’s Turdeau’s big announcement. I wish the Liberals would get a leader who wasn’t stupid, even Garneau would work. The thought of having a Bolshevik federal government is way too disturbing.
They could have had an astronaut. Instead they went with the social media butterfly.
Right now Mulcair owns the liberal party of thieves,weed is good!
Weed, good hair, and Parliamentary procedure. Maybe Harper should concede right now. I don’t know what we can do with Mulcair short of catching him in a whorehouse. Oops – that didn’t work with Jack Layton.
What will happen when Mulcair starts talking NDP policy on the campaign trail. That’s when the numbers will deflate.
Mulcair is playing the part of a Quebec liberal.
Trudeau is playing the part of a Quebec socialist.
Neither can be trusted as both hold to the practice of moving goal posts.
Maybe Angry Tom will do the opposite of traditional politicos.
Run from the right, and rule from the left. One would have to be a fool to expect the NDP to be business savvy, and conservative spenders.
Oh, hello Alberta voters, just saw you in the corner. How’s it feel being deceived? Still can’t believe the NDP numbers, but we have to consider there are many young adults, who have never seen the malaise and destruction that socialist governments wreak. This is the demo. group that has fallen in love with money for nothing from the NDP!
” We will restore the voter identification card as an acceptable
form of identification.”
OK, sure.
And how do I get that card?
Well, it comes through the mail to your last known address.
What if I moved?
Hmmm, the person who lives at your ‘LKA’ receives it.
Will he/she be able to vote with that?
Yes.
Will I still be able to vote?
No, you can only vote once. However if you don’t vote, you will be fined.
BUT,BUT,BUT …
Justin is an idiot.
As the commercial says ‘he is a celebrity that doesn’t think things through’.
I’m a letter carrier, been doing it for close to 25 years.
I deal with the ‘voter identification cards’when they come down. In the transient areas many are discarded in the trash, easily 25% are in accessible trash. A buddy called me a few days before the Alberta election and asked me if I wanted to go vote. I said ‘No,I’ll go on election day. WTF?’. He had grabbed 4 cards from his building’s trash. When he voted in the Alberta election he used only the ‘voter card’.
I do my job with integrity as do my co-workers, everyone that I know does their job well. Posties are good people. They are probably the most trusted people in any neighbourhood, rich or poor.
However, making the ‘voter identification cards’ a commodity will lead to electoral fraud. In September,early October, I will get in my hands about 1,200 ‘voter identification cards’, some posties will get up to 4,000. The people that split the cards to the routes will have access to hundreds of thousands in every major city.
I’ll do my job properly. I know why I was hired. I know my job.
Justin does not.
He doesn’t understand that leading a group, a large gathering, a hamlet, a city, a province, or a country means that you do what is best for all, not just for those who will keep you in that position.
Justin is a Liberal, not a liberal.
Trudeau is run by some of the most pathetic policy wonks on loan from bedlam – the strike out kid.
Kind of sad to see the once great party being led by an amateur like Shiny Pony who is being advised by the most politically inept crowd he could find….. On second thought Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Looks good on the losers!
I guess Trudeau likes compulsory voting because that’s what they do in countries like China.
I’ve been saying that the NDP are not going to give up their Official Opposition status.
If they beat the Liberals again for the Official Opposition, we’ll get all of the legacy Liberal conservative vote(traditional vote) and the Leftist Liberals will go to the NDP for the next round.
The LPC are done for, just like the PCs of yesteryear.
Everyone is panning out and choosing sides for a confrontation.
It’s all easier that way.
Lots of seats opening up on the Conservative side…is Hadfield a liberal or a conservative? If he’s a conservative maybe an election or two from now we can have the astronaut vs the astronaut vs the angry-not.
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… and whether or not it is clear to you – no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
The lesser of two trudeaus will be a one election wonder. I hope he has kept his resume current. Not that the nitwit has ever NEEDED to work a day in his idiot life.
Ignatieff and Dion weren’t out of until at least after the writ was dropped. Trudeau is a train wreck. He is flinching as we speak spewing top down quota/identity BS, attempting to channel his father who would likely be aghast at his abortion and Senate moves IMHO.
BTW Mulcair will also be in his first election as leader. Harper should easily mop the floor with him; he has in program in place and Mulcair has to prove Canada is broken and Harper has sullied their international reputation (with the UN, Kyoto and Bishop Tu Tu perhaps); trying to con people into believing reversing a tax cut isn’t a tax increase, given the measures are now I place, will be fun to watch. Explaining why he doesn’t want to pay back $2.7million of ill gotten tax booty will be a howl. Oh yes, Mulcair’s lustre will soon show rust – for example his 50% +1 support for Quebec separation, to his foolish abolish the Senate gambit to his plans for a “sustainable” economy, with advisors already ensconced in AB to begin the great social(ist) experimental blueprint. Plus, it’s easy to bitch from the sidelines; now his “solutions” will be front and centre for the voter and the Liberal loving media, along with the antics of his Alberta cousins and the aforementioned provincial outsiders jetting in to take over the place and advise Tom of their progress.
His response today is to agree with Harper that small business needs a tax cut, but with Harper we get that without a carbon tax and Kyoto compliance and the ever burgeoning nanny state. His Daycare program for a relatively smaller echo class, with record numbers of grandparents available for part time child caring duty, seems silly and costly while the Liberals have been promising national daycare every election since St Laurent it seems.
The so-called progressive vote comprises at most 50-55% combined all parties right now. This doesn’t include the classical liberal Grit right flank, which is about a quarter of their core vote, say about 5-8% of all voters. The rest goes to Harper. The progressives are the one who have problems with growth. Until and unless the “coalition” can somehow hang on to the blue Liberals along with their vote, they cannot win. Can we expect this bunch to now work together? In fact, it’s likely they can only hope to hold Harper to minority and then defeat him in parliament. I doubt that will work – long term/undecided blue Liberals will plug their noses and vote Harper rather than install Mulcair in the PMO with them as second fiddle. NDP power would threaten a vulnerable LPC fighting for relevance, now a leftist party under their autocratic & amateurish leader. In fact should Harper only win a large enough minority, he could likely find enough blue Liberals to keep him in power, who would jettison their moribund leader and properly rebuild from the sidelines. Smart Grits know becoming a minor partner to a Mulcair minority is politicide for the LPC.
The problem is they’re not smart anymore so quality Liberals like Manley & McKenna won’t stand for leadership in the party. The need another Chretien political renaissance and the Band-Aid leaders they’re recently installed can never deliver the goods of power.
The number one objective of the LPC should be to keep Mulcair out of the PMO. It won’t be but it should be. The progressives appear to have no choice at this point but to turn on each other. It seems any hope of an Anybody But Harper delusional hatred parade is gone.
“… and whether or not it is clear to you – no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should”
Desiderata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdNwa-g_Uu8
No longer Canadas ” frat boy” .
Now graduated to ” the Bong Whisperer” ……
Trudeau the actor, emoting the lines given to him by people who are as inept and silly as he is, hoping to fool enough people to land the part he’s trying out for. Hopefully the people are smarter than Trudeau’s puppeteers and their front man.
Just heard Mulcaire on the radio. He spoke of all the nice stuff but only mentioned in passing how he would pay for it – an energy tax. He also spoke of creating thousands of well-paying green energy jobs. Yeuch.
Windsor, ON is still waiting for those 20,000 green energy sector jobs promised by McGuinty. I think they got 200 (that’s not a typo—my cousin works in the factory (there’s only one) and there are 200 workers.
I agree with one thing in the article.
Trudeau is swinging for the fences.
The reality though is that, to use another baseball term, is that “it’s a swing and a miss!”
Mulcair is playing the trojan horse card, be all moderate and conservative ….get into power then pull the mask off.
Well thought out and I agree the LPC should focus all their energy on keeping the NDP out of 24 Sussex.
I love baseball analogies. In Trudeau’s case, he was born on third base and those that put him into the leadership position mistakenly thought that he had hit a triple. In reality, his role would be returning bats to the dugout and bringing a fresh supply of balls to the umpire.
As for Mulcair, he would promise to field a winning team yet he would be sitting in the dugout angrily attempting to do up a lineup card as he looked down the bench at nothing but losers, incompetents and complete whackos.
Worked for Rachael out here. So, who’s Mulchair gonna import as “advisers”, if he wins? Raoul, or Fidel? Che is dead.