Update below
Canada is not the US.
Start with those two rather salient differences: this is not America, and he is not Trump. Canada has not gone through anything like the serial traumas that the United States has, from the Sept. 11 attacks to the Iraq war to the housing collapse to the financial crisis. We have no parallel to the illegal immigration problem that so divides and defines American politics.
And why didn’t Canada go through the same malaise as the US? Because we had a steady hand at the tiller who knew what he was doing. Lord help us now if Canada is hit with another recession under the new watch.
Reminder, the French debate is tonight. Watch for it on CPAC. A debate where the non-francophones will be making fools of themselves with the exception of one who still hasn’t thrown his hat into the ring. Pride and cowardice come in many different wallets.
Update: Kevin O’Leary to enter Conservative leadership race tomorrow
One day after the French debate; transparent and spineless. Why those are just the qualities I’m looking for in a party leader.
One thing about Coynes predictions is they are alway right on.I mean look how he predicted Trump-OH WAIT.
O’Leary would be better suited to run Ontario.
The province has been traumatized by 13+ years of liberal buffoonery at queens park that has doubled our debt, doubled energy prices and driven business out or under.
And no one is interested in seeing anymore mosques built, thank you…
Also, French is not required.
O’Leary would be better suited and have a better chance to run Ontario as premier.
The province has been traumatized by 13+ years of liberal buffoonery at queens park that has doubled our debt, doubled energy prices and driven business out or under.
Also, French is not required.
If you skulk about Casselman and Hawkesbury, as I do occasionally, you’ll find these places are primarily Francophone. For the record, I don’t speak French. And the sooner we are shot of that horse faced old rug muncher, the happier I will be.
That opening statement reminded me of an old pro American conservative Canadian, who sang
the praises of my country in a speech. I forgot his name, but I loved his message.
If you skulk about Casselman and Hawkesbury, as I do occasionally, you’ll find these places are primarily Francophone. For the record, I don’t speak French. And the sooner we are shot of that horse faced old rug muncher, the happier I will be.
The man was Gordon Sinclair. The record was The Americans: A Canadian’s opinion. According to Air Socialism (CBC), Gordon Sinclair made about $200,000 from the record and donated it to the American Red Cross.
O’Leary must never be the leader of the Conservative party because he made ignorant and disparaging remarks about how Canadian combat soldiers were not to be respected for their combat patriotism and that only peace-keepers were deserving of respect. Although I respect anything good that our armed forces do, I hold a special level of respect and admiration for those who fought in the trenches in WW1 and those who stormed Normandy in WW2. I assume O’Leary will try to weasel his way out of his remarks, but if you read the original text you will have no doubt about what he meant.
I haven’t seen a thing to tell me he’s at all conservative. He’s pro-business but I see the Liberals as more pro-business than the Conservatives. Back in the day NDP and Conservatives in Western Canada were more likely to vote for each other when the crunch came than vote Liberal. That seems to have changed. I guess the civil service now owns the NDP, not the farmers.
Yes, O’Leary would probably be a better Premier in Ontario than a national leader of the CPC. The media would love to see O’Leary as CPC leader as they imagine they could roast him daily as they do Trump, and they know his pro-business attitude would not play well in Toronto,Quebec,the Maritimes, or Vancouver, which doesn’t leave much of the Country for him to gather votes.
Rule of thumb the CPC had better pay attention to: if the MSM approves of a Conservative candidate, it’s because they know he will lose to their Liberal candidate. Coyne and 95% of the rest of the msm are liberal,Liberal or NDP.Having your enemy choose your leader doesn’t work out well.
At this point,it looks like Bernier is the most acceptable alternative of the leadership candidates. And it truly pisses me off that speaking fluent French-Canadian is absolutely essential for any candidate but proficiency in English is only a secondary consideration, with any actual proven ability to run a business not important at all.
Agree with the comments above. The statement in the article that grated the most for me was the one about the “black swans” and how the experts can sometimes be wrong. Mr. Coyne, you and your ilk are not experts on what the electorate thinks or believes, and if you still think you are “experts” you have learned nothing in the past year. You media pundits are not “experts” who happened to be wrong on one occasion; you are out of touch echo chamber residents who have been exposed for the empty talking heads you are, and you no longer control the narrative. So quit trying.
Media pundits are laughable out of touch. Andrew Coyne voted for Ignatieff in 2011 and Mulcair’s NDP in 2015. They have no idea what’s happening.
A recent internal poll has shown that Kellie Lietch is the front-runner for leadership of the CPC. Lisa Raitt and Max Bernier are tied for second place. But every media pundit tells me that Kellie is a horrible racist person trying to imitate Trump.
We’ll see.
Anyone who endorsed the Spawn during the last election is deeply judgmentally flawed. He strikes me as being indicative of the fatal conceit of Ontario and its cock-tale circuit brain-trust. My hope is that Bernier gets in and the slow process of purging the party of progressives and differentiating the CPC from the others can begin. The Spawn has wasted little time in getting the nation back on the fast-track to ruin and nothing but his own party and puppet-masters can slow him for the next 3 years. That leaves the CPC with plenty of time to cleanse.
Taxpayers are not interested in being forced to pay for mosques.
http://www.therebel.media/another_ontario_muslim_group_taxpayer_dollars_build_mosque
http://www.infowars.com/liberals-plan-to-build-refugee-camps-on-seven-canadian-military-bases-taxpayers-will-fund-mosques-korans/
Kellie
Max
Otoole (my MP)
In that order…
Hon mention to Saskatoon buddy if he’d drop the marriage issue – I’m for equal suffrage, er, suffering for all!
O’Leary is a whackjob opportunist, without a clue on Canadian issues. Selling senate seats? Any kid in 7th grade would understand why this is complete nonsense.
I question his ethics, as I still don’t understand how he got away for years, on CBC telling investors what he invested in that day, knowing that ‘investors’ who purchase stocks based on TV news would jump in and he would be enriched. Where was the CBC and the OSC during those days?
The man is a loose cannon. O’Leary is no Trump-if you use that comparison then you are insulting Trump!!
O’Leary: a loud-mouthed trumpian wannabe mini-me who is just another Montreal-born Liberal millionaire – no different than the turdos.
Coyne: a fellow who would rather laugh and scratch with O’Leary and turdo la doo than hoist a quart with any of us.
O’Leary. Yet another big government socialist. Yay.
Trump, regardless of his failings and foibles, has always struck me as someone who loves his country and cares. People talk about Trump’s style and tone but he ran a very astute campaign on jobs, immigration and renewed government that spoke to issues people care about.
O’Leary seems insincere and untrustworthy and doesn’t seem to have the political instincts of Trump. I’d still vote for him over Trudeau but my expectations would be very, very low.
He would be a very good choice for Ontario. Hope he thinks of that.
Where in hell is Peter MacKay? I don’t like where this is heading.
“I see the Liberals as more pro-business than the Conservatives.”
Wouldn’t you agree the Liberals are more prone to crony business than the Conservatives as opposed to just plain business?
… transparent and spineless. Why those are just the qualities I’m looking for in a party leader.
My thoughts exactly Lance. Hey, we agree 🙂
O’Leary is a non-starter. Gimme Trost, or Bernier any day.
Yes that’s a good idea. Better than the invisible leaders the “PC” Ontario party has had since the bad guys took over.
Lance is right. It doesn’t matter to me whether a candidate speaks French or not. But the great virtue of elections is seeing the true nature of the candidates, and O’Leary outed himself with this.
No, he would not be a good Premier in Ontario. Lack of spine makes any other skills irrelevant.
Exactly Don. I always recall the liberal establishment praising Bob Stanfield for his fine character, gentleman-like behavior and the Best Prime Minister Canada Never Had!!!
(Actually I don’t recall as I wasn’t in Canada at the time but have learnt about it) and of course who cannot forget another gentleman, Joe Loser of the Briefcases 🙂
No, we should avoid good-losing gentleman wankers.
Hey what time and channel is the debate?
Je speak some French and je have a clue about le weather.
Vous cannot avoir the froid weather by paying les taxes.
Votez pour moi. Further details when I master Hindu and Chinese, the useful second languages.
It is said that ‘for lack of a vision the people perish’. TBH I don’t see any visionary leaders in any of the parties. The conservatives need to find one quick or we will have junior spud for a second term.
Quote: One day after the French debate; transparent and spineless. Why those are just the qualities I’m looking for in a party leader.”
Pretty ironic stance considering how much against Trump you were/are.
I would hace thought his (O’Leary) stance on the military was an instant disqualify.
Nice summary. O’Leary shouldn’t even be considered for a backbencher role either provincially or federally. Let him take his smarmy act back to the CBC.
That makes 3 of us, at least.
I can think of two benefits O’Leary brings to the conservative side.
First he would get every liberal partisan head to explode and go over board with their attacks making them the angry ones.
Second he gets media attention something potato head thrives on and is the liberals only selling point. Anything that makes liberals nervous will encourage the first point.
Disclaimer
This in no way should be deemed an endorsement or a disbaragement of O’Leary. I disagree with his position on our military. That being said if he manages to win that makes him the leader.
Just an FYI to my post above, go peruse the commentary at the update link.
Just the mention of his name brings out the worst in them.
The CPC leadership candidates would be wise to leverage this.
Peter MacKay doesn’t like the way things are heading either, so he’s at home, biding his time until 2023.
O’Leary doesn’t stand a chance. He may be a conservative but that doesn’t say much.
On that topic Trump was never a Republican. He’s a NY liberal.
I can’t think of any candidate in that bunch that I’d vote for.
O’Leary will never be prime minister. It might be possible to win the leadership without speaking French, but it is impossible to win the election and be a unilingual prime minister. L. B. Pearson said, “I will be the last unilingual prime minister of Canada.” He was right, never gonna happen again.
Funny, so many of you don’t want to see KO beat up Spud on a regular basis, preferring a cuck like McKay or a Quebecer. If that’s the CPC sentiment, Spud will be PM for a LONG time. Get with the program, the next leader has to be unpolitical, to defeat Spud
I think he realized that Ontarians are idiots and the province is a lost cause.
On the other hand, how about a Bring Back Harper movement?
“Bring Back Harper”
Exactly, none of the current candidates comes seven close.
I disagree with the whole concept of goverments having a “vision”. This is no better than giving the goverment license to conscript the whole population in service to that vision. Eg. Trudeau and Butts Green Zealotry. The only vision they should have is to provide an environment in which we can realize our own visions for our personal lives. In that respect Bernier so far appears to be the only qualifying candidate.
The corrupt Media cartel the greedy privileged Public sector Union thugs and the rest of the Globalist gangsters will not allow anyone to defeat their candidate Juthtin the stupid of Trudopia. Who the Conservatives pick for leader will ultimately be of little relevance as they will not be able to defeat the Globalist gangsters, even if they pick a Globalist “Liberal” type as their leader… nope, the country is stuck with Dumb Juthtin no matter how bad he continues to be and no matter who challenges him, the fix is in.
I’d bring back Harper in a heartbeat if I could.
O’Leary is never going to be leader. His candidacy was created by the media and is being inflated by the media. It’s not going to happen.
“Bring Back Harper”
..or someone of equal capability. Rona is a very distant 2nd, and out of the race, and the rest are “also ran”.
Coyne also advocated for the election of Steph Dijon… Coyne consistently advocates voting for Libranos, although he campaigned for Mulcair and the NDP in the last election… Coyne is quite likely the only person on the planet who calls himself a “Conservative” while constantly and consistently advocating the election of far leftist Libranos and NDpers… he is also the only self described Conservative alive that believes Peeair Trudeau was the bestest PM ever… the man is an arrogant elitist turd and as dumb and dishonest as any other Globalist Media prick.
Coyne a conservative?
Coyne is what the CBC uses as their template of what they want conservatives to be.
He’s actually a blu liberal.
Wants so desperately for the other side to like him there isn’t one conservative position he would denegrate or at the least come up with conditions why he might disagree with and then endorses the opposition.
Thank you. That was one of the most moving speeches I have ever heard. We must never forget that
we (The English speaking peoples,) have more in common than can ever be quantified. I Read all four
volumes of Churchill’s works of history on this subject.
When Donald Trump commented on rapes committed by illegal immigrants, I shrugged it off. Then I read
Ann Coulter’s Adios America. A few years ago, there were 13 babies delivered to 13 year old girls in
Mexico. By contrast, there were 8 such cases in the entire English speaking world (England, Scotland,
Wales, Ireland, Canada, America, New Zealand and Australia.) In every case but 1, the perpetrators
were immigrants!
I will NEVER apologize being a member of this family of civilized human beings. Mexico, Latin America
and the Middle East may find such behavior acceptable, but Western Civilization must never lose sight of
the fact that we are fighting to defend our culture!
there are insufficient numbers of real conservatives to elect a conservative dog catcher let alone a majority in the house of commons. the days of conservatism in Canada are over, if there really were any conservatives here to begin with. the few of us who exist will never be adequate to reform government in any way, Mike Harris did not nor did Stephen Harper, no matter how loudly the press bleated, things remained much same and government debt and deficits continued to grow.
Ezra Levant. The obvious answer. Nobody else has the audacity to express the outrage of Trump, both feigned and legitimate, plus the knowledge of the system and media savvy. He can turn it on and off, go on a rant and end it with laughing at it all. Would draw out the lefty, Muslim and First Nations anti-Semites plus his longstanding opposition to the “Official Jews”. Any doubts about him defunding CBC? Any confidence in any other candidate doing so? He doesn’t have enough skills to ideologically form a new Reform Party to gather enough mini-Ezra acolytes, but Republicans rewinning Congress shows a populist personality doesn’t require mini-Trumps. Win or lose, he (and we) would have a blast pissing off ALL the right (Left) exploding heads
Bernier seems like the best existing option, but I lack confidence in him because he so meekly accepted Harper casting him to the backbenches. If he had the required backbone and drive to deserve to win, he or any of the other losers currently running would have built a base within the CPC to undermine Harper and be ready to replace him. With all due respect to PM Harper, a good man and a good PM, this contest should have been held two years ago. He and the rest of the CPC got comfortable and complacent. Any new face would have diminished the personal vilification built on his name, his hair or whatever other superficial shit Lefties made up and threw at him
MacKay? He already lead a party. He was the last leader of that party that doesn’t exist anymore.