Trudeau responds to the Globe and Mail story below.
Can’t we just talk about socks?
‘In that moment, I knew he wanted me to lie.’ Jody Wilson-Raybould recalls a tension-filled meeting with Justin Trudeau
I think I was foreign and incomprehensible to him. After all, I was from the other side of the tracks. I was an Indigenous girl from a small fishing village – Cape Mudge, on the southern tip of Quadra Island just off Vancouver Island. I am Kwakwaka’wakw. The PM did not grow up in my neighbourhoods, with the kids I grew up with. None of his family went to residential schools. My childhood memories are closer to Comox and Cape Mudge than Rockcliffe. My political point of reference was the Big House, not the House of Commons.
You Know Max is Popular
When the CBC sends one of their senior reporters (conspiracy theorists) out to do data driven “research”.
Bernier’s talk of ‘tyranny’ echoes far right militia group’s slogan, say experts
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier has been using a phrase in speeches and in tweets similar to one used by members of a far-right militia group — some of whom participated in the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington earlier this year.
Experts who monitor online extremism say Bernier’s repeated use of the phrase — “When tyranny becomes law, revolution becomes our duty” — could be interpreted by members of some far-right extremist groups like the Three Percenters as an endorsement.
It’s a popular quote from Thomas Jefferson but our moral and intellectual betters have other notions.
De Santis for Prime Minister
Dear Leader Gets Trashed By Rex Again
Rex is still not impressed that our little girly boy called an election. He obviously will not work for the CBC again.
Zinger
I didn’t watch last nights debate, haven’t watched one in years but I’m guessing this may have been the best shot of the night.
Vote Liberal Because We Need A Housing Tax
A Liberal candidate claims that a housing tax will come under a new Liberal government. Blackie has denied this in the past, so it must not be true. You can trust the Liberals. They wouldn’t lie.
Update on the book burning school board. It seems the consultant who worked with the Ontario school board to burn books, is a fake Indian. Not only that, but she recently had to resign from the Liberal Party’s Indian advisory group because of questions on whether she is an Indian. She states she resigned so as not to embarrass her buddy Trudeau or the Liberals. I think that ship has sailed.
Coulda Had Max
@sunlorrie — So Maxime Bernier’s PPC, with virtually no media coverage and banned from both leaders’ debates, has more support that the Greens in many polls & could impact the election significantly in the race between the Liberals and Conservatives.
Related.
Rex Explains The Election Debates
Here in Mad Dog Justin’s Canada, debates are designed for the special people in Toronto and Quebec. Its easier for the bought and paid for media to control the narrative that way. Two in Quebec, one in Ontario.
Oh, Surly Pony!
Trudeau has looked frantic and sounded shrill. The leader who propounded “sunny ways” and the hopeful narrative has been reduced to accusing his rival of saying anything to get elected. Lest we forget, this is the Justin Trudeau who promised electoral reform, the return of peacekeeping, pharmacare, clean drinking water on reserves, Access to Information in ministerial offices, two years of deficits before a return to balanced budgets etc, etc.
This is dangerous territory for the Liberal leader — as is the politicization of vaccination. His position on those who have not been vaccinated is hardening, as he tries to link “anti-vaxxer mobs” stalking his campaign events to O’Toole.
“The vague position taken by Mr. O’Toole is an issue. He will not demand that people taking a plane or a train are vaccinated. He will not demand that the federal public service be vaccinated and he doesn’t even expect that his candidates be fully vaccinated — and that shows that, yes, he’s trying to get votes from anti-vaxxers,” he said.
Can anyone remember a time when the prime minister of a country demonized and delegitimized so many of his fellow citizens?
Ezra Wins
VICTORY! Rebel News wins case against Trudeau gov’t, will send ELEVEN journalists to federal leaders’ debates!
570 Easy Steps
The Liberals’ 570 fixes for Canada
You don’t truly get a sense of how all-controlling a modern political party wants to be until you read its platform
If you’ve got 570 “priorities” you don’t really have any.
More of the same
Change may be in the air, but how substantive will it be? Judging by the agenda being promoted by this CPC candidate in Nova Scotia, not much. The solution to Canada’s health care woes is apparently even more money and micromanagement from Ottawa:
But issues with the health-care system pre-date the pandemic. The physician workforce is aging, Ellis explains, an issue complicated by younger doctors who want a better work life balance with a smaller patient load, while patient needs are getting more complex. He says there’s a need for “federal oversight in terms of how we begin to look at recruiting and retaining primary care providers.”
Unhinged Pony
So Basically The Same
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is the latest federal party leader to promise a national system for proving residents have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
O’Toole says he would work with provinces to devise a national proof-of-vaccination system, adding such a setup would help Canadians during international travel.
O’Toole says he wants 90 per cent of eligible residents vaccinated against COVID-19, and is pledging to cover the cost of time off for employees to get a shot, free transportation to vaccine clinics and a national booster shot strategy that would initially target seniors and the immunocompromised.
Anyone have anything different on the table?
A Chicken in every Pot
Conrad Black goes over the party platforms.
Erin O’Toole’s platform is imaginative, but Maxime Bernier is the most impressive leader. The Liberals offer plenty of extra spending but don’t say how it will be paid for.
Bleary-eyed and almost gasping for air, I can confirm to the 99.9 per cent of Canadians who don’t read the platforms of political parties at the onset of an election campaign that they are not missing a great deal in profound thought, stylish composition, or uplifting incitements to patriotic exaltation of the soul. I did not go beyond the Liberals and Conservatives because they are the only parties that have any chance of forming a government, and in any case I protest against the exclusion from the debates of Maxime Bernier who is probably the most impressive of the party leaders and has the best program in many respects. He is being discriminated against by the debates commission.
Memo from The Office of Chief Big Screen TV
Across The Pond
Trudeau is front page news.
Related confidence building.
Conventional wisdom on Canada’s 2021 election: [updating]